Wuthering Heights

The lead single on Kate Bush’s debut album, The Kick Inside, was the incredible song, Wuthering Heights.

The first release, in the UK, featured a Chinese motif with Kate flying across the middle of a huge eye, on a kite. This is the release, in cassette format, that Katarin would have been most likely to acquire.

The story of the origin of Wuthering Heights as a song is intriguing. Not many nineteen year olds would have felt compelled to try to understand the passion and angst of young love as revealed in the story, and Kate herself was first influenced by the television adaptation, first broadcast on the BBC in 1967. It was the ghost scene at the window that particularly caught her fancy and contributed to one of the most salient debuts of a popular singer ever.

Scarcely any wonder, then, that young Katarin, of approximately the same age, should have revelled in the song, and have committed it totally to memory.