#wuthering heights 1978

[belleandsaintsebastian]

felt like drawing fiona + kate together !!!! :)) <333

[adobongsiopao]

Kay Adshead (Cathy) and Ken Hutchison (Heathcliff) in "Wuthering Heights" 1978 version.

[thatscarletflycatcher]

Wuthering Heights (1978) + title cards

[pristina-nomine]

Favorite movies/shows watched in 2022

[eroticlamb]

kate bush featured on top pop (tv), march 1978 ꩜

[melomancy]

Kate Bush performing in Japan, 1978

[weaversweek]

41 "Wuthering Heights" - Kate Bush

Written by Kate Bush

“There was a full moon, the curtains were open and it came quite easily.”

Part of the UncoolTwo50 project, marking the best singles from 1977-99.

Aged 18, young Kate took inspiration from one of the great Gothic novels, and fashioned a whole performance. It's the most audacious, fearless, quietly feminist art performance - possibly of my lifetime.

Musically, the song has a lot to unpack: harmonic progressions, vocal yelps going here and there, a guitar solo that fades in at the end and dominates everything. And nobody cares for the music theory.

Written in the first weekend of March 1977, Kate found herself channelling the spirit of namesake Catherine Earnshaw, and her forbidden love for Heathcliff. Committed to vinyl over the summer, backed by David Gilmour of Pink Floyd, and passed to Capital Radio in November '77, but a change in the artwork postponed release to January '78. The press got it wrong. "B-O-R-I-N-G", wrote Record Mirror. "Manufactured entirely to be consumed" said the New Musical Express (Incorporating Accordian Times). And nobody cares for the details.

We care for the emotion. Kate had taken lessons from mime artist Lindsay Kemp, she'd been dancing and theatrical since a very young age. She embodies the song, and the song is an extension of her.

Kate did Top of the Pops on 16 February, all flaring hair, sheer black top, red trews, and black stiletto heels. It's behind-the-sofa stuff, Kate is as scary and unnerving as a demented witch. This is "Wuthering Heights"? Blimey.

And the rest is history. Top-selling single two weeks later, and Kate had a level of superstardom we'd later associate with Duran Duran, Take That, or Little Mix. Unlike those others, Kate had the agency to take her career her own way: didn't tour after 1979, took long breaks to hone later albums. More in a future entry…

For the list, I've imposed a massive penalty on acts with more than one single - it's removed a second Madonna from the top 50 (goodbye "Open your heart"), ensured we only have one Alanis Morissette ("Hand in my pocket", farewell), a single Tori Amos ("Silent all these years" and "Crucify" both drop off). Kate Bush gets two into the top 50, the only performer to achieve the feat.

[princesssarisa]

I was just researching the cast of different Brontë novel adaptations, to make a list similar to @thatscarletflycatcher's list of actors who appear in multiple Austen adaptations.

Completely by accident, I learned that Grant Bardsley, the voice of Taran in Disney's The Black Cauldron, played Edgar as a child in the 1978 Wuthering Heights miniseries. I had no idea.

If for some odd reason, you'd especially like to see Taran's voice actor get applesauce dumped on his head, the 1978 Wuthering Heights is viewable for free on YouTube.

[obxfiles]

accidentally watched the 1978 adaptation of wuthering heights by mistake, ended up finishing the entire thing in one sitting, tried to watch the 2008 adaptation i thought i was originally watching only to realize 20min in that the 1978 has ruined me to all other adaptations

[my-chaos-radio]

Release: January 20, 1978

Lyrics:

Out on the wily, 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, I'm Cathy

I've come home, I'm so cold

Let me in your window

Heathcliff, it's me, I'm Cathy

I've come home, I'm so cold

Let me in your window

Ooh, it gets dark, it gets lonely

On the other side from you

I pine a lot, I find the lot

Falls through without you

I'm coming back love

Cruel Heathcliff, my 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, I'm Cathy

I've come home, I'm so cold

Let me in your window

Heathcliff, it's me, I'm Cathy

I've come home, I'm so cold

Let me in your window

Ooh, let me have it

Let me grab your soul away

Ooh, let me have it

Let me grab your soul away

You know it's me, Cathy

Heathcliff, it's me, I'm Cathy

I've come home, I'm so cold

Let me in your window

Heathcliff, it's me, I'm Cathy

I've come home, I'm so cold

Let me in your window

Songwriter: Kate Bush

Heathcliff, it's me, I'm Cathy

I've come home, I'm so cold

SongFacts:

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[adobongsiopao]

'Anyone here who likes the 1978 BBC version of "Wuthering Heights"? This is such a fantastic adaptation and it's the same reason why I bought the novel.

[spindrifters]

remus lupin is secretly a kate bush stan but he will deny it

[boricuacherry-blog]

This song is based on the 1847 book Wuthering Heights, which tells of the tempestuous and doomed love affair between characters Cathy and Heathcliff, among the wild rugged moors of Yorkshire. She is singing from the point of view of Cathy's ghost at Heathcliff's window asking him to let her in.

Oh it gets dark, it gets lonely  On the other side from you

[melomancy]

Kate Bush, 1978

[garlandedspirits]

Kate Bush performing Wuthering Heights live on Top Of The Pops in 1978