| "Wuthering Heights" | ||||
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| Single by Kate Bush | ||||
| from the album The Kick Inside | ||||
| B-side | "Kite" | |||
| Written | 5 March 1977 | |||
| Released | 20 January 1978 | |||
| Recorded | 1977 | |||
| Studio | AIR (London) | |||
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| Length | 4:29 | |||
| Label | EMI | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Kate Bush | |||
| Producer(s) | Andrew Powell | |||
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| "Wuthering Heights" on YouTube | ||||
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"Wuthering Heights" (1977) | ||||
"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.[2] This made Bush the first female artist to achieve a number-one single with an entirely self-written song.[3] 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.[4] In 2020, The Guardian ranked it as the 14th-best UK number-one single.[5] It is certified platinum in the UK for sales and streams of over 600,000 units. A remix featuring rerecorded vocals was included on Bush's first compilation album, The Whole Story (1986), and included as the B-side to her 1986 single "Experiment IV".
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- ^ "WUTHERING HEIGHTS". Official Charts. 11 February 1978. Retrieved 9 October 2024.
- ^ Thomson, Graeme (13 May 2010). "Kate Bush's only tour: pop concert or disappearing act?". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 February 2022.
- ^ "The 200 Best Songs of the 1970s". Pitchfork. 22 August 2016. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
- ^ Beaumont-Thomas, Ben; Petridis, Alexis; Snapes, Laura (5 June 2020). "The 100 Greatest UK No 1s: 100–1". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 February 2022.