@@catinthehat906 , I rather wanted to say that not everyone is able to understand how cool everything is done in Kate Bush's music. But yes, exactly, witnesses of genius.
What are you talking about? She was a huge success in the UK and the rest of Europe in the 70s and really has been ever since. Wuthering Heights was her debut single and it was literally a no. 1 hit. All but one of her albums reached the UK Top 5 (at least one entered at no.1), and the only one that didn't still made the Top 10. And that's despite the fact that she only went on a single tour and then decided to never tour again. Sure, she wasn't as well-known in the States back then (don't think it was a focus either though) but even so, she was still nominated for multiple Grammy Awards during the 80s and 90s.
I don't think she's advanced, the music is timeless or just transcends trends in music. It's not like music that came out after this all sounds like Kate Bush.
I've never heard a song that perfectly expresses an entire piece of literature the way this song does. It's my favorite book and this does it justice somehow.
I am 60 year Afro American woman i hadn't heard the name Kate Bush ever in my life...i 😊😊 wasn't familiar with her nor her catalog of music until just a couple pf days when St Vincent performed on the rock and roll hall of Fame and this song instantly swept me off my feet after hearing tnis i was intrigued and wanted to find out more about miss Kate Bush ❤and now that I am familiar i must say I am most definitely a fan ❤❤❤❤
@@wendytrimble3467 oh my goodness thank you for sharing your commentary so meaningful can't stop listening to Miss Kate Bush she's quite the musician singer songwriter and lyricist ♥️❤💋💋❤️❤️ WOW
I'm 66 and was blown away by Kate when she first started. She is something special. Recently felt the same about a young singer/songwriter called Aurora. You should check her out as well. Best wishes.
I am a 218-year-old phosphorescent octopus from the eighth planet of the Zrqkkqs planetary system in the Large Magellanic Cloud of and I agree with you!
The audience don't know what's going on, they clearly weren't used to this style of singing back then, most of them probably actually thought Kate will be a complete flop because she was so unique and out there.!
What did you expect them to do? Mosh? It's not the sort of music to dance to; more one that takes you on an inward journey. That Wuthering Heights was #1 and she was on Top of the Pops somewhat disproves your assertion that most of them thought she would be a complete flop. She released WH when she was 19 and, as she says at the start, she's 20 when she did this performance. She was already insanely successful. Also, if you watch any Top of the Pops from the 1970s, you'll notice the crowds are nearly always very passive no matter how upbeat the music. Maybe a sign of the times, or maybe they were told not to dance.
This version is so glassy, so frail, perfectly matching the essence of the song and giving it a different dimension than that of the studio version, especially when her voice falters as she sings "let me in your window." That little quake is everything.
I mean, there's a reason the show was called Top of the Pops lol. It was literally a no. 1 hit either at that time already or shortly thereafter... So it's not like people didn't know who she was. But your point probably still stands that they're excited to have been there even all these decades later.
I love that this was a live vocal and not lip-sync. There are so few live performances of hers in comparison to many contemporaries (fleetwood mac, Springsteen, Bowie...) this is a treasure!
At the end, the audience seemed to be not knowing how to react. I can't help but feel it was because what was being presented to them was so new and different and wonderful.
People often mistook her music for "pop" music. And then the lack of shallowness surprised them. You have to be prepared for music that is able to change your state of mind.
This is the proof that nothing beats a good original. She sang that song in her own style, and no one have been able to do it better for the last 41 years.
It's awesome how there's been a resurgence of interest (and actual purchase) of her music thanks to it going viral after Stranger Things featured Running Up That Hill as a big plot point. She apparently made over a $1M in royalties from streaming services in a month during the period after the show.
Its so cool with her being so focused on the cameras! I have the feeling that she is singing past the obviously confused crowd and directly to me! Traveling through space and time cause she knew that some people at the other end of the cameras would understand.
Serene, pristine and deranged, nobody should underestimate quite how shocking it was when the teenaged Bush emerged to the world with this haunting piano melodrama of her own creation. Casting herself as tragic heroine Cathy from Emily Bronte’s gothic romance, perhaps the reason so few pop songs are based on classic novels is that they’d have to live up to this.
Pitch Perfect! The voice so strange and conventionally 'weird' at the time was an ice breaker. Kate Bush was tops solo in theatrics having songs with great lyrics. First of her kind 1978 and found by the youth of today 2022 is tremendous.
When I first heard this song I thought this woman had lost her mind. Then after I heard it the tenth, or so, time I found myself getting into it. It's one of those songs that has to grow on you.
@@grinsko6741 No, it is definitely a rare live TOTP performance. Other great live clips worth watching are Eurythmics "You have placed a chill in my heart", Bowie "Jean Genie", James "Getting away with it' etc
Great singer and great songs.And a beautiful lady.Ive been a fan of kate bush since 1982 at age 17years old girl.Im still a fan today in the year 2025.
@@ballfart420 while she was originally inspired by the last minutes of the TV program, she said that she did go on to read the book before writing wuthering heights
I was MADLY in love with Kate the day I first saw her! I had a huge 4 foot poseter of her on my wall for years. Apparently I discovered later she lived only a few miles from the military base I was serving on! BIG HUGS Kate you are still the best!
I remember this exact performance like it was yesterday, watching it with my family and she's even better watching her now. My God what I'd have done for a girl like Kate; well I did and she turned out like Lorena Bobbit, if just we could turn time backwards and have another chance armed with the wisdom aquired with age. I'd just past my driving test when this came out and had a Vauxhall Victor 101, with a radio and lots of girlfriends. Great times and the majesty of Kates performance just sums up for me what was great and has become diminished with time.
So wild that all the printed lyrics online say "Heathcliff, it's me, I'm Cathy", when she very clearly (especially in THIS video) says "Heathcliff, it's me, your Cathy"
Me in 1978, 14 year old, I have no idea what this songs is about, but I love it. Me 2024 now 59 years old, boy I wish I could go back to this great music
1978 is the year I took O'Level Lit with Wuthering Heights as one of the books to study. A classmate brought the record to class. After we heard it our Lit teacher said she didn't understand a word lol !!!
I remember watching this on TOTPs for the first time in 78 and being knocked out by it . To think a few years before we had Mud, The Rubettes and Kenny. Punk gave music the creative kick up the back side it needed.
As a 10 year old boy she used to give you certain feelings.... Still get them in my 50's watching this but as she's only 20 here it doesn't feel quite right!
I was 15 when this Song was released and I fell in love with the music and that voice, even not knowing the Singer and how does she look. It took a while until I finally see that beautiful girl singing and dancing on TV, and she never got out of my head since then. 45 years later ... here I am watching you, dear Kate , and still loving you and your outstanding Songs. But I know that my love is only one among millions of people around the world that loves you too. Wish you all the BEST, my dear Lady Kate Bush. THANK YOU ! (From Brazil)
the only thing that limited Kate Bush's musical career was the relatively small proportion of really smart people in the general audience
hahaha
You wonder what that TOTP audience thought- did they know they were witnessing genius?
@@catinthehat906 , I rather wanted to say that not everyone is able to understand how cool everything is done in Kate Bush's music. But yes, exactly, witnesses of genius.
One of the most hauntingly beautiful songs ever made
Good description... It touches in wierd, previously unfound places
What a beautiful woman
I love Kate Bush, she was too advanced for the 70s and Thank God her legacy is growing in these years!!!
What are you talking about? She was a huge success in the UK and the rest of Europe in the 70s and really has been ever since. Wuthering Heights was her debut single and it was literally a no. 1 hit. All but one of her albums reached the UK Top 5 (at least one entered at no.1), and the only one that didn't still made the Top 10. And that's despite the fact that she only went on a single tour and then decided to never tour again.
Sure, she wasn't as well-known in the States back then (don't think it was a focus either though) but even so, she was still nominated for multiple Grammy Awards during the 80s and 90s.
I don't think she's advanced, the music is timeless or just transcends trends in music. It's not like music that came out after this all sounds like Kate Bush.
She's too advanced for 2024.My mother hated her because her music wasn't like every other song she ever heard.
Parce que tu crois qu'aujourd'hui on est en avance ? 😂😂😂
Aún en el 2024. Hemos involucionado musicalmente hablando
No playback..just pure... What a big artist.
It’s miming the studio version. Don’t people know this!? That’s what TOTP is! That’s why Ian Brown and Kurt Cobain didn’t play along to this shite 😂
I've never heard a song that perfectly expresses an entire piece of literature the way this song does. It's my favorite book and this does it justice somehow.
Jane Austen and Kate Bush share the same birthday 30th July.
Check out Shallot by Emelie Autumn
Apparently she only caught the end of the movie when she wrote the song and hadn't read the book at all.
@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017she started to read it before finishing to write the song
I am 60 year Afro American woman i hadn't heard the name Kate Bush ever in my life...i 😊😊 wasn't familiar with her nor her catalog of music until just a couple pf days when St Vincent performed on the rock and roll hall of Fame and this song instantly swept me off my feet after hearing tnis i was intrigued and wanted to find out more about miss Kate Bush ❤and now that I am familiar i must say I am most definitely a fan ❤❤❤❤
I’m 59 ww I felt I had the same experience with KB thanks for sharing yours 😊
@@wendytrimble3467 oh my goodness thank you for sharing your commentary so meaningful can't stop listening to Miss Kate Bush she's quite the musician singer songwriter and lyricist ♥️❤💋💋❤️❤️ WOW
I'm 66 and was blown away by Kate when she first started. She is something special.
Recently felt the same about a young singer/songwriter called Aurora. You should check her out as well. Best wishes.
I am a 218-year-old phosphorescent octopus from the eighth planet of the Zrqkkqs planetary system in the Large Magellanic Cloud of and I agree with you!
Y a quien le importa la etnia de cada uno , para que le guste o no
The audience don't know what's going on, they clearly weren't used to this style of singing back then, most of them probably actually thought Kate will be a complete flop because she was so unique and out there.!
Idk, the bushy haired guy at 3:15 seems to get it. He's digging it. 😁
What did you expect them to do? Mosh? It's not the sort of music to dance to; more one that takes you on an inward journey. That Wuthering Heights was #1 and she was on Top of the Pops somewhat disproves your assertion that most of them thought she would be a complete flop. She released WH when she was 19 and, as she says at the start, she's 20 when she did this performance. She was already insanely successful.
Also, if you watch any Top of the Pops from the 1970s, you'll notice the crowds are nearly always very passive no matter how upbeat the music. Maybe a sign of the times, or maybe they were told not to dance.
audiences like these were always asked to shut up since the music was being recorded
2020 and im trying to figure it out
I mean i don't even think my fretboard has these notes
This version is so glassy, so frail, perfectly matching the essence of the song and giving it a different dimension than that of the studio version, especially when her voice falters as she sings "let me in your window." That little quake is everything.
😂 You do realise TOTP was studio version miming!? 😂 so funny when people make statements and the opposite is true 😮
@@DanFernandesBenficaSaint I do realize I should have said 'different dimension from that of the official release version'
Audience "who is this, what is this song". Audience 40 years later "I can't believe we were there".
I mean, there's a reason the show was called Top of the Pops lol. It was literally a no. 1 hit either at that time already or shortly thereafter... So it's not like people didn't know who she was. But your point probably still stands that they're excited to have been there even all these decades later.
@@lena-xm6pg I’m just saying the audience look like they’ve never heard anything like this before!
Your sons will like it
Probably surprised that it wasn’t live 😂
I love that this was a live vocal and not lip-sync. There are so few live performances of hers in comparison to many contemporaries (fleetwood mac, Springsteen, Bowie...) this is a treasure!
😂 TOTP is most certainly NOT live 😂 Just watch Nirvana. Kurt decided he wasn’t going to go along with the bullshit. So funny what you said 😂
This is the most original pop rock artist ever.
At the end, the audience seemed to be not knowing how to react. I can't help but feel it was because what was being presented to them was so new and different and wonderful.
And live, which was a rarity ,such a difficult song and no backing vocals!!
They`re probably completely mesmerized
People often mistook her music for "pop" music. And then the lack of shallowness surprised them. You have to be prepared for music that is able to change your state of mind.
Love the Pat Benatar version more but always come back to this as homage
60s britain wasnt ready
This is the proof that nothing beats a good original. She sang that song in her own style, and no one have been able to do it better for the last 41 years.
Angra did an excellent cover
Hayley Westernra did a good version. The arrangements were as good as the vocals
恐ろしい話しを…
感じさせない
素晴らしい歌声で
たんたんと歌ってます。
I was a kid when Kate Bush began her career. She's so unique. Her voice is so haunting! She was original then, still is now!
I think Kate Bush and Debbie Harry are THE premiere female artists from that era... pure class, both of them.
It's awesome how there's been a resurgence of interest (and actual purchase) of her music thanks to it going viral after Stranger Things featured Running Up That Hill as a big plot point. She apparently made over a $1M in royalties from streaming services in a month during the period after the show.
I saw her on TV and went to buy her LP which was brilliant
Its so cool with her being so focused on the cameras! I have the feeling that she is singing past the obviously confused crowd and directly to me! Traveling through space and time cause she knew that some people at the other end of the cameras would understand.
In an era where most artists were begged not to sing live on TOTP this performance was AMAZING !!!!!
There was also an era where the musicians union made them sing . It made folk like Kylie etc make videos 🤣
Serene, pristine and deranged, nobody should underestimate quite how shocking it was when the teenaged Bush emerged to the world with this haunting piano melodrama of her own creation. Casting herself as tragic heroine Cathy from Emily Bronte’s gothic romance, perhaps the reason so few pop songs are based on classic novels is that they’d have to live up to this.
Correct
Pitch Perfect! The voice so strange and conventionally 'weird' at the time was an ice breaker. Kate Bush was tops solo in theatrics having songs with great lyrics. First of her kind 1978 and found by the youth of today 2022 is tremendous.
Wow, so hard to sing this live. Well done.
A song is really hard to sing well in 🎙 too
I remember her first performance on TOTP dressed in a floaty white dress. Mesmerising. We had never seen the like and probably never will again.
When I first heard this song I thought this woman had lost her mind. Then after I heard it the tenth, or so, time I found myself getting into it. It's one of those songs that has to grow on you.
She was 19 years old and cast herself as a ghost
This seems to be a live vocal performance. Unusual for TOTP.
No dancing audience, so I think this is Ask Aspel, not TOTP.
@@grinsko6741 No, it is definitely a rare live TOTP performance.
Other great live clips worth watching are Eurythmics "You have placed a chill in my heart", Bowie "Jean Genie", James "Getting away with it' etc
such a strong voice...
Yep!!! She has a 4,5 octave vocal range thats like almost 5 octave range!!😀
She has a got a huge vocal range and a different way to sing in confront of other singers
She's a true performer: whether it be in a music video or live performance, she's always ready to do more than sing.
A high quality vocal , no auto tune no rubish on the voice , just a good clean vocal
Oh, what a wonder-wonder-wonderful song........
I always wonder what Mozart would think of Kate. I’m guessing he would be blown away ! She’s timeless
And in love with her beauty 😊
Teenagers turned to stone by a bonafide genius.
What a voice, my god how does she do it? Kate Bush a human enigma.
Great singer and great songs.And a beautiful lady.Ive been a fan of kate bush since 1982 at age 17years old girl.Im still a fan today in the year 2025.
One of the most beautiful song and melody's ever written and performed. Thank you Kate !
Still such an extraordinary piece of vocal delivery, otherworldly, ethereal and amazing. Kate Bush was on another level
20 years old. My goodness. The amount of talent.
Every time she stares at the camera I feel my blood pressure to increase a bit. She is more than an artist , she Is a magnet.
She looks like a mad witch.
I love it
🤭
That's because her song is about a ghost & she is the ghost....
Imagine writing a song like that at such a young age she must of been profoundly influenced by Emily bronte classic novel
They also share a birthday!
actually, she had never read it and wrote this inspired by a film adaption she only watched a few minutes of
@@ballfart420 while she was originally inspired by the last minutes of the TV program, she said that she did go on to read the book before writing wuthering heights
Must have*
- and imagine her writing, and recording The Man with The Child in his Eyes at the age of 15!!!
This song is a classic. I’ve always loved it. It was unique in 1978 and it still is now.
It's so amazing to see her perform this song life considering how difficult the vocals are even for her. Singing so high for so long is not easy work!
You're not a real fan, a real one knows
A voice that, even after 45 years, sends shivers down your spine, makes your hair stand on end and doesn't let you go.
I am 42, i have listen of years of music, never very heard of Kate Bush until that video. What a blast, fell in love, she is an angel
Mind blowing... that voice... so beautiful and haunting! ♥
I was MADLY in love with Kate the day I first saw her! I had a huge 4 foot poseter of her on my wall for years. Apparently I discovered later she lived only a few miles from the military base I was serving on! BIG HUGS Kate you are still the best!
Lies
Unbelievable performance
Whose watching in 2024 😢❤
I do
a lot of people - much more than you think and are.
@@rolandaugustbayerrab-6367 oh ok 😂🔮
Meee❤
Who's* and why the crying emoji? We're happy to be here. 🤩
When you think some of her best Hits
We're Written when she was 15 years of age
Is Outstanding ;)...................................
She was a different level of genius. This is true art.
Probably the most beautiful pop song of All time
Still makes me cry 46 years later.
What an awesome performance they don't make them like Kate Bush anymore ❤
Live, no playback. Superb.
she was so unique. the public did not get her type of art, she is literally acting in music format. it's wonderful
I periodically feel the need to come here and watch this masterpiece. Everything is just pure art
I will wager one of her O levels was English Literature and one of the set books was Wuthering Heights.
I did it as a set book in '75
I've never seen Kate Bush be anything other than 100% genuine in an interview, so refreshing
Never thought she would be able to sing her songs... And now pretty much no one else can.
Her theater background certainly came into play for this video. Love this!! ❤
Singing like that live??!!, WOW, incredible voice
I remember this exact performance like it was yesterday, watching it with my family and she's even better watching her now. My God what I'd have done for a girl like Kate; well I did and she turned out like Lorena Bobbit, if just we could turn time backwards and have another chance armed with the wisdom aquired with age. I'd just past my driving test when this came out and had a Vauxhall Victor 101, with a radio and lots of girlfriends. Great times and the majesty of Kates performance just sums up for me what was great and has become diminished with time.
What a voice, never mind her dancing and gorgeous face.
You don’t become a connoisseur in music from A to Z without A having AreroSmith, Z having Zz Top and B beginning with Bush!
An epic and timeless song, still highly avant-garde today.
So wild that all the printed lyrics online say "Heathcliff, it's me, I'm Cathy", when she very clearly (especially in THIS video) says "Heathcliff, it's me, your Cathy"
How can one not fall in love with this woman?
I was 12 when I saw this on ToTP....hooked completely...love you Kate ❤❤
It’s awesome she wrote this song after reading the book. Absolutely beautiful
I adore that song...
Especially the sound of her voice in all her songs.
This falset is unique and remarkable 💖🌹🙏
Wonderful singing. Nice bass lines too.
Such a unique talent...and out of the limelight. Pure talent
got here in love,
left in tears 🥰
I love this song and how she sang it! It's amazing and so powerful!
Me in 1978, 14 year old, I have no idea what this songs is about, but I love it. Me 2024 now 59 years old, boy I wish I could go back to this great music
No one else can do it, I was born in 84 I love alsorts of music ,I gotta say its a wonderful enchanting,mesmerized ,so unique .%
One of most beautiful and talented artists
she seems verry nice. verry beautiful voice. verry different. all her work but you must like it.
Incredible. One of a kind. There are no words for how this song makes me feel.
So bizarre yet it's such an amazing song. From the lyrics to the backing music, perfection
this is just otherworldly beyond anything else seen. she's so amazing
This kind of talent doesn't exist anymore. Fantastic
I remember watching her and knowing she was just special. The female Prince/bowie
She captured the essense of the novel in one song, Amazing artist ❤
Who through this would have been a master peace in 1978? But is it just. What a talent women she turned out to be still in 2024
Absolutely amazing woman no one does songs like this anymore what a life long classic. Utmost respect Kate Bush an you were so dam hot. BLESS
she is such a sweetheart
The legend of Kate Bush then began. She is awesome and has transcended the business.
I am filled with shivers, what a wonder
She was nervous I can tell from her voice and other performances she was super young it must have been one of her first on TV
Ye thats true but i think thats not the case. She didnt perform on stage for 35 years after 1979. I guess she is just scared of audience in general
@@miavelvet so thats why shes not world famous?
@@DeadGuye1995yes
@@miavelvet she did though? 1987 secret policeman comes to mind
1978 is the year I took O'Level Lit with Wuthering Heights as one of the books to study. A classmate brought the record to class. After we heard it our Lit teacher said she didn't understand a word lol !!!
I remember watching this on TOTPs for the first time in 78 and being knocked out by it . To think a few years before we had Mud, The Rubettes and Kenny. Punk gave music the creative kick up the back side it needed.
Kate is so amazing live.
Incredible voice ! I love Kate Bush ❤
As a 10 year old boy she used to give you certain feelings.... Still get them in my 50's watching this but as she's only 20 here it doesn't feel quite right!
bruh
One of our greatest artists
I love this little fairy. Truly an Irish beaut.
She's English.
She is an english woman with irish roots
Born in England
I was 15 when this Song was released and I fell in love with the music and that voice, even not knowing the Singer and how does she look. It took a while until I finally see that beautiful girl singing and dancing on TV, and she never got out of my head since then.
45 years later ... here I am watching you, dear Kate , and still loving you and your outstanding Songs. But I know that my love is only one among millions of people around the world that loves you too.
Wish you all the BEST, my dear Lady Kate Bush. THANK YOU !
(From Brazil)
@FernandoVieira-bx9dv < < < Stalker vibe...
Unique, beautiful, mesmerising.
I first heard her on SNL back in '78 and i was captivated. She was born for the stage.
We ❤ Kate Bush
Gosh , I remember this so well as I watched totp faithfully as a kid .
wow... just a gorgeous song and then this mesmerizing performance.