The genius-studded decade of punk, glam, disco and classic rock. Here are the highlights. Words: Dan Martin, Matthew Horton, Priya Elan, Tim Chester.
Released: January 1978
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.












