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Cathy's homecoming and the Other world: Kate Bush's ‘Wuthering Heights’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 November 2008

Nicky Losseff
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Curiosity value quite possibly accounted for the success of Kate Bush's first single in 1978. Those who have continued to admire her more particularly for her later musical achievements, which have surely consolidated her position as one of the most individual and innovative artists of the 1980s and 1990s, do so possibly in spite of (rather than because of) the impact of ‘Wuthering Heights’. No other song of hers has had the same public appeal – it stayed in the British charts for seventy-five weeks (Rice 1991) – and perhaps the smaller group of admirers who remain loyal engage more with the intensely personal visions into which her lyrics have matured, as opposed to that first, more musically zany, original hit.

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Popular Music , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , May 1999 , pp. 227 - 240
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999

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