The surprising story behind Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights | BBC Global

Kate Bush's debut single, Wuthering Heights, was released 47 years ago this week.
It was first song written and performed by a female artist to reach the UK top spot - and she wrote it when she was just 18 years old.
She told the BBC about the origins of the literary love song that began a unique career in music.
Read full BBC In History article: www.bbc.com/cu...
Subscribe to BBC Global: www.youtube.co...
For the latest news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com
#bbc #music #katebush

[@frakte]

I love to hear Kate being interviewed. She’s a lovely, delightful lady. Very classy.

[@cstnfacu]

One of the greatest and most haunting-sounding pieces of music ever crafted.

[@jerkchickenblog]

oh come on

[@THEchiQ]

A consummate creative. She’s wonderful.

[@Candolad]

This was a children's programme called "Ask Aspel" in the late 1970s with the broadcaster Michael Aspel who is still alive aged 92.

[@patrickfitzgerald2861]

What a lovely girl Kate was at this point in her life! For anyone thinking that the interview was somehow disrespectful, I'd suggest that you remember that it took place a long time ago. For a middle-aged man interviewing a young woman back then he was perfectly professional, and she appears quite comfortable throughout.

[@8888swatt]

Yes, agree, interviewing was often approached in a much more matter of fact way in those days with a journalistic and objective slant. These days we expect the interviewer to drop in compliments constantly and essentially become parts of the artists PR and marketing machine but in those days it was considered compliment enough to be interviewed and given a voice and exposure.

[@TheHkluivert]

I am a bit surprised by your warning; this looks like a perfectly fine interview to me. Maybe I am getting old (8 years younger than Kate Bush)

[@patrickfitzgerald2861]

@@TheHkluivert Read the other comments and you'll understand.

[@boredgrass]

What a nice little gem from the past!

[@loudloveen]

I was singing this song non-stop today. ❤

[@ferdiemiddleton8910]

We only have someone this talented and insightful every 300 years or so and we are grateful to be in her lifetime, not many musicians will be remembered or studied as long as she will be

[@justincoleman2740]

She reaches me on multiple levels. Have been pining for45 years.

[@BluebirdFrank]

God Kate was stunning!!😍

[@arcadepiano]

i am same age as this song and i just discovered it last week

[@markphc99]

It was first song written and performed by a female artist to reach the UK top spot - Wow!

[@jeprotable]

beautiful

[@williamrobinson7435]

When Wuthering Heights was released I heard it and was amazed, but was most distinctly impressed by it when I was strolling past an archaeological dig in my home town of Beverley, East Yorkshire, and all the people working there had thier radios on "🎶Tune your radio ONNNNNNE🎶" and they'd all downed tools and were listening, and the sound of all these tiny radios, I mean it was a priory they were digging up, q a largeish site in an ancient town, it sounded just amazing, like magic or something, I'm eloquent enough when it comes to going on and on about music, I've had flippin' EXPERTS accept my essays and give me big ol' qualifications on the strength of the piffling nonsense they constitute, but I can't think of anything better than "amazing" to describe the sound, as one chap had a huge radio, so you could hear some bass.. A memorable experience indeed! ❤️✨🌟👍

[@nickbarber2080]

He's a very good,empathetic interviewer....and a Batterse lad as well...

[@EliteRock]

Very intelligent as well as artistic. A gift to us all. _Wuthering Heights_ sprang from the radio in the same as way other unforgettable anthems like Mott The Hoople's _All The Young Dudes,_ - thank God for all the real music that was an antidote to the manufactured trash that tried to lead us astray.

[@deeplearningpartnership]

Very authentic.

[@KevinSvetlich]

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[@deborahrobertson6618]

Genius!

[@craig528]

When was this interview recorded?

[@HeavenlyBrujo]

I know this is an old video, but it has a ringing sound at a very high pitch, it's distracting.

[@davecooper3238]

Not when I viewed it.

[@8888swatt]

That's the sounds of going to too many loud gigs in your younger days! Only joking, I could hear the whistling sound too.

[@NazmulHaque-o2v]

👀💗

[@john-dextertecson3688]

🐾

[@ADAMSIXTIES]

I love Kate's Bush

[@hibongs804]

Voice of a burning banshee

[@abdelkadernechadi7497]

What happened to her face at 1:11 and 2:31 ?!?!?!?!? Weird 😳😳

[@natjes6017]

Poor resolution I´m afraid.

[@IndomitableT]

What do you mean exactly?🤔🧐

[@ChartreuseDan]

Kate Bush already got famous. The value of a national broadcasting service with arts funding is to springboard local artistic endeavours. What a waste of resources

[@Barbaste]

Interviewers are so bad, should be edited out. They always seem to be envious of talented people amd their questions are beyond lame.

[@eonetim]

You realise this is an edit of a much longer interview

[@Candolad]

This was a children's programme called "Ask Aspel" in the late 1970s with the broadcaster Michael Aspel who is still alive aged 92.

[@hogwashmcturnip8930]

This was a show where the Viewers (Children) sent in the questions. They were hardly likely to ask for earth shattering insights. Kate was very young herself. Not much point asking a 19 year old for the meaning of life. And not much chance a 10 year old is going to ask it. I thought they were intelligent and fitting questions for the situation and Aspel was fine. Care to tell to tell me how a man who had a successful career as a newsreader since 1957 is "jealous" of a girl who wasn't even born then?