Kate Bush — "Wuthering Heights" (1978, Song)

Not a film or TV adaptation — but no list of Wuthering Heights versions is complete without Kate Bush's debut single, which she wrote at age 18 after watching a BBC adaptation late at night. "Wuthering Heights" reached #1 in the UK in 1978 and introduced Brontë's novel to a generation of listeners who had never read it. Bush's falsetto, the moors wind-sound, and the chorus "Heathcliff, it's me, Cathy, I've come home" is one of the most enduring sonic images in British pop.