This means that a whole new generation will have marvelled at her interpretation of 'Wuthering Heights' - the unearthliness of Emily Bronte's vision of tormented, forbidden love compressed into a haunting four and a half minutes of pop magnificence.
What these younger fans may not appreciate is that, during the 1970s, because of a set of arcane regulations enforced by the Musicians' Union, the Department of Education and a still-Reithian broadcasting establishment, *all* acts hoping to be approved for mainstream radio or TV airplay had first to record a 'pop' version of one of the acknowledged masterpieces of Victorian literature. This would then be assessed by an Associated Examining Board (AEB) panel for minimum standards of textual fidelity and coherence.
Much of this work, aside from 'Wuthering Heights', is now justly forgotten - but, for afiocandos, Subway Sect's 'The Mayor of Casterbridge', Steel Pulse's 'Bleak House' and, of course, The Wurzels' 'Walter Bagehot's 'The English Constitution'' still bear repeated listening (though the TOTP audience who were in the house for the last of these performances do look a little mystified, as well they might).
