Release and Impact
The album became Bush's first record to reach the top position in the UK album charts, also making her the first female British solo artist to achieve that status. Technically, Never for Ever is the first studio album (i.e. - not a greatest hits compilation) by any solo female artist to reach no.1 in the UK as only Barbra Streisand and Connie Francis had achieved the feat prior to 1980 but with compilation albums (Diana Ross had also achieved three UK no.1 albums by then but these were also compilations and were credited to Diana Ross & The Supremes and were therefore not solo albums).
In Japan, the CD booklet cover art was modified, as EMI-Toshiba execs decided that the illustration of various animals emerging from beneath Bush's skirt was too risque, and chose to enlarge a section of the original cover art, creating two different booklet covers: the outer one modified; and underneath the original.
The album's cover was voted 'Greatest Album Cover of 1980' by Record Mirror.
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