Kate Bush – “Wuthering Heights”

Kate Bush suddenly entered my consciousness – and presumably that of many others – in February of 1978 with her debut hit “Wuthering Heights”.

I was staying with my grandmother in Brighton, England, on my way back from Germany to New Zealand to finish my degree when I heard this magical voice on British radio, and I just had to get the album when I got back home (“The Kick Inside” – it had only been released a few days earlier).

Here’s the original, “white dress” version:

And the less surreal (visually at least) “red dress” version:

Kate Bush was “discovered” by David Gilmour of Pink Floyd, so her first album was bound to be a masterpiece technically at least.

Artistically it has a great deal going for it too, and I still find every song on the album worth listening to again and again. (I’ll find a few more tracks from this and later albums for you to listen to some time in the future.)

Meanwhile I just found this live clip from 1978 with Kate accompanying herself on the piano:

Don’t you just love those eyes…

I don’t know about you, but I have always found there is something intensely feline about Kate Bush – you almost expect her to turn into a cat in some of the videos.

Well, that’s enough for now, watch out for more another time.

Paul

Tags: David Gilmour, Kate Bush, Music of the Seventies, The Kick Inside, Wuthering Heights

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