Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights (Ultrasound Extended Version) from the album "The Kick Inside" (1978)

"Wuthering Heights" is the debut single by the English singer-songwriter Kate Bush, released on 20 January 1978 through EMI Records. It was released as the lead single from Bush's debut album, The Kick Inside (1978). It uses unusual harmonic progressions and irregular phrase lengths, with lyrics inspired by the 1847 novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. Bush wrote it in a single evening at the age of 18.

"Wuthering Heights" has spent 14 weeks in the UK singles chart and spent 4 weeks at No. 1 in March 1978. This made Bush the first female artist to achieve a number-one single with an entirely self-written song. It also reached the top of the charts in Australia, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, and Portugal.

In 2016, Pitchfork named "Wuthering Heights" the fifth-greatest song of the 1970s. In 2020, The Guardian ranked it as the 14th-best UK number one single. It is certified platinum in the UK for sales and streams of over 600,000 units.

Fun fact! Bush wrote "Wuthering Heights" aged 18, in a few hours late at night on 5 March 1977. She was inspired after seeing the 1967 BBC adaptation of the 1847 novel Wuthering Heights. She subsequently read the novel and discovered that she shared her birthday with its author, Emily Brontë.

"Wuthering Heights" is sung from the perspective of the Wuthering Heights character Catherine Earnshaw, a ghost pleading at Heathcliff's window to be allowed in. It quotes Catherine's dialogue, including the lyrics "I'm so cold", "let me in", and "bad dreams in the night". Bush recorded her vocal in a single take.



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