| Wuthering Heights |  |
| Wuthering Heights | |
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• | Country: USA |
| • | Label/Number: EMI America 8003 | |
| • | Release date: July, 1978 | |
| • | Chronology: Kate's 1st US single; it's from The Kick Inside. | |
| • | Cover photo by Gered Mankowitz | |
| • | Highest chart position: It didn't! Wuthering Heights was a worldwide hit -- everywhere but the US! | |
| • | Wuthering Heights Lyrics | |
| • | What it's about: Kate's nod to Emily Bronte's classic romance novel. (More specifically, the ending, where Cathy comes back as a spirit to claim Heathcliff's soul.) | |
| • | Running time: 3:35 (single edit) | |
| • | Kite Lyrics | |
| • | What it's about: Feeling rooted to the ground, a girl takes to the sky as a kite (but I've always thought it was a thinly veiled drug use metaphor). | |
| • | Running time: 3:00 | |
| • | Etc: The sleeve is one of Gered Mankowitz's "box" photos shot for EMI America in March, 1978. This particular shot is exclusive to the US release of Wuthering Heights (except for a reverse image of it, which appears on the Polish Tonpress sleeve). (Here are a few more from the same session.) | |
| • | Etc2: This, and the FIRST UK pressing, are the only single edits of Wuthering Heights ever released. The minute-long instrumental part at the end has been eliminated, probably because the full length version wasn't deemed "radio friendly" enough. | |
| • | Etc3: Promo copies were also distributed in stock sleeves with mono/stereo versions of the US only single edit (EMI America P-8003). |
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