Along with post-Genesis Peter Gabriel and David Bowie, she was part of the British Prog-Pop movement, and became a highly experimental musician in a pop context, doing pioneering work with the Fairlight sampling keyboard.
From a musical point of view, and taking into account her amazing singing, if I were to compare her to another female musician, it would be Joni Mitchell. Not because of styles, because Joni's is rooted in folk-rock via LA studio/country/jazz, but because of how profoundly she influenced the musicians that followed her.
Bear in mind that Kate was also the first rock/pop artist to combine dance and music in a live show, presaging Madonna and the others by a good 10 years.
Anyway, the amazing thing about this song is that Kate wrote it when she was 14. In fact, it was part of the demo she put together for Dave Gilmour (of the Floyd) who discovered her.
What's even more amazing is how presciently in control of her early career she was, refusing to put this song out as her first single, instead choosing Wuthering Heights.
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