the kick inside

On this day in 1978, Kate Bush’s titular debut studio album (released in February) featuring the hit song Wuthering Heights first entered the UK charts to spend a total of an astounding seventy weeks and peaking with a high of number three. The album also features the song Them Heavy People about being a theological acolyte and the teachings of Jesus and the Russian mystic Gurdjieff, proponent of awakening one’s consciousness fully and following the “Fourth Way.”