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[[Kate Bush]]'s 1978 song "[[Wuthering Heights (song)|Wuthering Heights]]" is most likely the best-known creative work inspired by Brontë's story that is not properly an "adaptation". Bush wrote the song when she was 18 and chose it as the lead single from her debut album. It was primarily inspired by her viewing of the 1967 BBC adaptation. The song is sung from Catherine's point of view as she pleads at Heathcliff's window to be admitted. It uses quotations from Catherine, both in the chorus ("Let me in! I'm so cold!") and the verses, with Catherine admitting she had "bad dreams in the night". Critic Sheila Whiteley wrote that the ethereal quality of the vocal resonates with Cathy's dementia, and that Bush's high register has both "childlike qualities in its purity of tone" and an "underlying eroticism in its sinuous erotic contours".<ref>{{cite book |title=Too much too young: popular music, age and gender |last=Whiteley |first=Sheila |year=2005 |publisher=Psychology Press |isbn=0-415-31029-6 |page=[https://archive.org/details/toomuchtooyoungp0000whit/page/9 9] |url=https://archive.org/details/toomuchtooyoungp0000whit/page/9 }}</ref> Singer [[Pat Benatar]] covered the song in 1980 on her "[[Crimes of Passion (Pat Benatar album)|''Crimes of Passion'']]" album. Brazilian heavy metal band [[Angra (band)|Angra]] released a version of Bush's song on its debut album ''[[Angels Cry (album)|Angels Cry]]'' in 1993.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://whiplash.net/materias/curiosidades/211170-angra.html|title=Wiplash|website=Whiplash|language=pt-BR|access-date=11 June 2020}}</ref> A 2018 cover of Bush's "Wuthering Heights" by [[Jimmy Urine]] adds electropunk elements.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.jimmyurine.net/euringer|title=''EURINGER''|publisher=[[Jimmy Urine]]|access-date=14 February 2019}}</ref>