"Wuthering Heights" is the debut single by the English singer-songwriter Kate Bush, released on 20 January 1978 through EMI Records.

It uses unusual harmonic progressions and irregular phrase lengths, with lyrics inspired by the 1847 novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë.

[11] Her performance uses manipulations in soft palate to produce changes in vocal timbre, a technique popular among Indian playback singers and in Peking opera.

[10] The guitar solo is played by Ian Bairnson, who said that he initially disliked the tone for many years for "purely guitarist reasons".

Bush created the choreography and dance moves to suggest her character is a ghost (as in this scene in the novel), without explicitly stating as much.

[24] In the outside version, Bush is shown dancing—'out in the wily, windy moors'—in a grassy area located on Salisbury Plain (inspired by the novel's moors) with Scots pine trees in the background, on an overcast day, while wearing a flowy red dress.

[25] The exact location is called "Baden's Clump" near Sidbury Hill, close to the town of Tidworth in Wiltshire.

[36] Bush's debut single finished the year as the tenth highest-selling and was certified gold by the British Phonographic Industry, denoting sales of over half a million.

[45] Bush had performed the song on the first episode of the West German music talk show Bio's Bahnhof on 9 February 1978.

[46] Following the live performance of the song by Laura Bunting on The Voice in Australia, "Wuthering Heights" re-entered the country's top 40 in 2012, 34 years after its original release in 1978.

[47] Written when Bush was 18 years old, this eerie gothic tale of lost love and longing cemented her individuality from the very beginning.

She appeared on Top of the Pops with it five times in 1978, cementing her public image as an ethereal spirit, embodying the essence of Cathy through a combination of wide eyes, floaty fabrics and wild choreography, still fondly mimicked and parodied today.

[54] The song has been interpreted by comedians Steve Coogan and Noel Fielding, on two occasions, as part of the BBC fundraising telethon Comic Relief.

[22] Coogan sang the song in the 1999 show as part of a medley of other Bush material in character as Alan Partridge.