Wuthering Heights

20 Knockouts From 1978 – The Year A Female Songstress Topped The UK Singles Chart For The First Time Ever

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Going back in time

30 May 2023

1978 was a new-punk-wave year of alternative razzmatazz, sonic turmoil and timeless killer tracks by Buzzcocks, The Clash, Siouxsie and The Banshees Blondie, PIL, Talking Heads and many more.

It was also the first year ever that a female singer-songwriter topped the UK Singles Chart with a self-written song. It was the then 20-year-old wayward artist Kate Bush who did it with her debut single Wuthering Heights in January 1978.

And here Turn Up The Volume‘s 20 Knockouts from 1978 list.

Ooops, 1978 was also the year of Grease and Superman.

KATE BUSH Released Her Spectacular Debut Single ‘WUTHERING HEIGHTS’ 45 Years Ago Today

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Top singles from the past

20 January 2023

45 years ago today, on 20th January 1978 art-pop queen KATE BUSH
released her spectacular debut single WUTHERING HEIGHTS. She wrote
it at the age of 18 and the gem made her an instant star.

The song featured on her first album The Kick Inside.

Wuthering Heights topped the UK Charts for 4 weeks and also
scored #1 in Australia, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand and Portugal.

Pitchfork named it the 5th best song of the 70s,
a couple of years ago.

The original video.

KATE BUSH: Facebook – Instagram

No 1 Singles This Day In 1968 – 1972 – 1978

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Top singles from the past…

11 March 2021

Artist: Otis Redding
September 9, 1941 – December 10, 1967
Song: (Sittin’ On) The Dock Of The Bay
No 1: on the US Soul Charts this day in 1968 – 53 years ago


Otis Redding: Discography

Artist: Harry Nilsson
June 15, 1941 – January 15, 1994
Song: Without You
No 1: in the UK this day in 1972 – 49 years ago

Harry Nilsson: Discography

Artist: Kate Bush
Song: Wuthering Heights. – debut single
No 1: in the UK this day in 1978 – 43 years ago

Kate Bush: Discography

40 Years Ago KATE BUSH Scored A Number One Hit In The UK With Debut Single ‘WUTHERING HEIGHTS’…

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Timeless in sound and vision…

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11 March 2018

Iconic singer/songwriter and fascinating performer KATE BUSH hit the top spot with
debut single WUTHERING HEIGHTS on the UK singles chart on 11 March 1978 – 40 years ago today – and stayed there for four weeks. Bush was inspired by the novel of the same name and wrote, at the age of 18, the idiosyncratic and spectacular song after watching the last ten minutes of a BBC mini-series based on Wuthering Heights. Legend goes that when Bush discovered that she shared the same birthday with writer Emily Brontë (30 July) she decided to write a song about the book within the space of just a few hours. Here’s that prodigious pearl, here’s that breathtaking voice, here’s that classic…

KATE BUSH: Website – Facebook – You Tube


WUTHERING HEIGHTS was on her debut LP THE KICK INSIDE