Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights [Live at Hammersmith Odeon]

"Wuthering Heights" is a song by Kate Bush and released as her debut single in January 1978. It became a No.1 hit in the UK singles chart and remains her biggest-selling single. Written by Bush when she was 18, the song is based on the novel of the same name. Kate Bush was inspired to write the song by the last ten minutes of the 1970 film version of Wuthering Heights. She then read the book and discovered that she shares her birthday (30 July) with Emily Brontë.

Lyrically, "Wuthering Heights" uses several quotations from Catherine Earnshaw, most notably in the chorus - "Let me in! I'm so cold!" - as well as in the verses, with Catherine's confession to her servant of "bad dreams in the night." It is sung from Catherine's point of view, as she pleads at Heathcliff's window to be allowed in. This romantic scene takes a sinister turn if one considers the events of the book, as Catherine may well be a ghost, calling Heathcliff to join her in death.

"Wuthering Heights" is the only novel by Emily Brontë. It was first published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, and a posthumous second edition was edited by her sister Charlotte. The name of the novel comes from the Yorkshire manor on the moors on which the story centres (as an adjective; wuthering is a Yorkshire word referring to turbulent weather). The narrative tells the tale of the all-encompassing and passionate, yet thwarted, love between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, and how this unresolved passion eventually destroys them and many around them.

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Out on the wiley, windy moors
We'd roll and fall in green
You had a temper, like my jealousy
Too hot, too greedy
How could you leave me?
When I needed to possess you
I hated you, I loved you too
Bad dreams in the night
They told me I was going to lose the fight
Leave behind my wuthering, wuthering
Wuthering Heights.

Heathcliff, it's me, Cathy come home
I'm so cold, let me in-a-your window
Heathcliff, it's me, Cathy come home
I'm so cold, let me in-a-your window

Oh it gets dark, it gets lonely
On the other side from you
I pine alot, I find the lot
Falls through without you
I'm coming back love, cruel Heathcliff
My only one dream, my only master
Too long I roam in the night
I'm coming back to his side to put it right
I'm coming home to wuthering, wuthering
Wuthering Heights.

Heathcliff, it's me, Cathy come home
I'm so cold, let me in-a-your window
Heathcliff, it's me, Cathy come home
I'm so cold, let me in-a-your window

Oh let me have it, let me grab your soul away
Oh let me have it, let me grab your soul away
You know it's me, Cathy.

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[kzbxvz]

Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't Kate Bush the very first pop artist to wear a headset mic?

[groofile]

@kzbxvz "The Swedish group Spotnicks used a very primitive version (of the headset mic) in the early 1960s. The headset was invented in 1910, by a Stanford University student named Nathaniel Baldwin." in Wikipedia.

[kzbxvz]

@groofile Thanks dude!

[jokersbonus]

Are we serious? Singing in that high note-perfect while dancing the parts.. Kate Bush monumental - she should tour more - everybody,love her madly!

[GeistFright]

She was only 20 when this song reached No. 1. WHOAH! But I can't help wonder -- did anyone object to the unusualness of this song? Were there haters? Did this creep people out? Or was this normal in the '70s? Number one, man!

[militemus77]

Elis Regina and Madona my ass... This lady invented this microphone to be able to express the song... Which (could be "witch") she does with perfect majesty... It could only come from a Leo...

[Sharmilka]

Aw, this makes me want to cry ... So brilliant live. This genius should be cherished.

[berrysione]

kate bush is music legend define wat a lady

[nielsjanss]

Sometimes guitar solos are perfect, and this is one of those. It just "sits" perfectly in the song. And here we even get an extended version. Heaven. Thank you uploader!