She shares the author’s birthday, like the novel’s headstrong heroine, everyone used to call her Cathy too, Cathy with her “queer dreams that alter the colour of her mind”.ĭuring that summer of 1977, it is recorded at AIR studios, four storeys above Peter Robinson’s department store, and the hustle and bustle of Oxford Circus. Other strange coincidences and synchronicities draw her deeper in. To get the details right she reads Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel, and some are already there (“so cold… let me in your window”). Soon she’s lost inside a new song with a circular chorus, becoming the ghost of Catherine Earnshaw. The curtains are wide open and Kate Bush keeps gazing at the full moon, sat at an upright piano, a £200 second hand purchase from Woolwich. Ten years later in the top floor flat of a Victorian house, located at 44 Wickham Road, Brockley, random childhood viewing is spun into musical gold. She’d always been into "that sort of thing”. A scene from the BBC’s adaptation of Wuthering Heights. She’d seen it on TV, way back in 1967, when she was nine. Detail from the 'Hammer Horror' 7" sleeve
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