“Wear red, dance along”: That’s the motto of the flash mob “The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever” based on an old hit by Kate Bush. The now 64-year-old singer – who dances expansively in a red dress in a meadow in the music video for the 44-year-old song “Wuthering Heights” – is experiencing this summer thanks to the Netflix series “Stranger Things” and the use of her hit “Running Up That Hill”. “ in it a worldwide revival.
In the United Kingdom, the song “Running Up That Hill” made it to number one in the charts 37 years after its release, and in Germany it reached number four. Kate Bush’s song is currently number eleven in the Official German Charts.
Before the “Running Up That Hill” comeback, a veritable cult had developed around Bush’s spherical debut single “Wuthering Heights” from 1978. The title means something like “stormy heights” in German and refers to a novel of the same name by the British writer Emily Brontë (1818-1848).
On the “Most Wuthering Heights” day, which has been celebrated for years, hundreds of Kate Bush fans in red flowing dresses meet in flash mobs in various cities around the world, from Australia to England, to perform the expressive dance from Bush’s video from the 1970s, for example in parks imitate
In Berlin in 2016, hundreds gathered at Tempelhofer Feld (the site of the former Berlin Tempelhof Airport). This year there were a few dozen people in red fluttering costumes with black belts in Görlitzer Park in Berlin-Kreuzberg.
Kate Bush, who now lives a very secluded life, experienced her breakthrough in Germany with a TV appearance on Alfred Biolek, on whose show “Bio’s Bahnhof” she sang “Wuthering Heights” in February 1978 – then at the age of 19.