![]() “There was no compiling,” engineer Kelly said. According to him, the vocal performance was done in one take, “a complete perfomance” with no overdubs. The song was recorded with Andrew Powell producing. Catherine’s “icy” ghost grabs the hand of the Narrator, Mr Lockwood, through the bedroom window, asking him to let her in, so she can be forgiven by her lover Heathcliff, and freed from her own personal purgatory. ![]() This romantic scene takes a sinister turn if one has read Chapter 3 of the original book, as Catherine is in fact a ghost, calling lovingly to Heathcliff from beyond the grave. 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. The actual date of writing is estimated to be March 5, 1977. Reportedly, she wrote the song within the space of just a few hours late at night. She wrote the song after seeing the last ten minutes of the 1967 BBC mini-series based on the book ‘Wuthering Heights’, written by Emily Brontë. Song written by Kate Bush, released as her debut single in January 1978. ![]()
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