Mike Duquette (Founder) was fascinated with catalog music ever since he was a teenager. A 2009 graduate of Seton Hall University with a B.A. in journalism, Mike paired his profession with his passion through The Second Disc, one of the first sites to focus on all reissue labels great and small. His passion for reissues turned into a career, having written at and worked for all three major catalogue music labels and contributing to Allmusic, Billboard, Discogs, City Pages and Ultimate Classic Rock. He's penned liner notes for Verve, Chess, Mondo and Soul Music Records.
Born and raised in New Jersey, Mike lives in Astoria, Queens with his wife, a cat named Ravioli, twin daughters and a large yet tasteful collection of music.
Kate Bush has always owned her recordings(through a company called “Novercia Ltd”). All that has changed is that EMI’s existing license ended, and may, or may not, have been renewed. Almost all of her non-L.P. tracks(excepting instrumental versions of “Running Up That Hill” & “The Dreaming”) were already included in discs 7 & 8 of the UK 8-CD set “This Woman’s Work”.
Ms.Bush long ago stated that the only one of her album sessions which produced a significant amount of unreleased songs was “Lionheart”. At that time, she was still extensively utilising an extensive backlog of songs that she wrote in her mid-teens, before her recording career started. A full scale comeback by Kate Bush is unlikely, since she long ago(in interviews granted in conjunction with her 2005 album “Aerial”) confirmed speculation that she doesn’t perform live due to stage fright.
And this is my opinion to state this, but it seems that to a certain extent, that Ms.Bush has wanted to revoke her own fame; to disappear into a normal, anonymous life in suburban obscurity. Not releasing her video programs on DVD and taking certain albums off the market are definitely steps in the direction of becoming intentionally invisible and forgotten, to which I say “Be careful what you wish for, because it may come true.”