Breaking Glass

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The band keep struggling to get by, despite being hassled by the police, and in the meantime Kate realises she is falling in love with Danny. The hard work eventually pays off when the gig promoters finally agree to help out but only by offering the band a contract that Danny describes as " feudal". Breaking Glass is a 1980 British film starring Hazel O'Connor, Phil Daniels and Jonathan Pryce. It was co-produced by Dodi Fayed and written and directed by Brian Gibson, his feature film debut. [3] [4] Breaking Glass’ was issued as the third single in November 1978 in Australia, with ‘Art Decade’ on the b-side.

The “I’ll never touch you” arrangement was retained for the Serious Moonlight Tour in 1983, and can be heard on the album Serious Moonlight (Live ’83) . Performances from the tour can be heard on the 2020 albums Ouvrez Le Chien (Live Dallas 95) and No Trendy Réchauffé (Live Birmingham 95). A November 2003 live version recorded on the A Reality Tour was released on the A Reality Tour album, in 2010. During a radio show which invites listeners to call in, Kate has trouble understanding her fans and gets angry when she is accused of being controlled by her record company, and even more so when someone she thinks is Danny calls in to accuse her of selling out. The next single released is "Big Brother", which features the 'offensive' lyrics completely changed as the music agents originally wanted, proving she has indeed sold out. Laws, Roz (29 November 2015). "Look at Duran Duran's Simon Le Bon when he was unknown and broke". BirminghamLive . Retrieved 4 February 2021.November 2018, sees the release of the latest limited DAVID BOWIE 7" picture disc, the 40th-anniversary edition of the BREAKING GLASS EP. Danny does his best to promote the band but finds it hard-going. The best he can do is several nights in a pub frequented by neo-Nazis, which, given Kate's anarchist and liberal tendencies that shine through in her songwriting, doesn't go well. After a brawl breaks out one night and the publican refuses to pay the band, Danny finally manages to persuade the anti-establishment Kate to record a demo tape. Danny and Kate then take the demo tape to some gig promoters who show no interest.

HAZEL O'CONNOR | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". www.officialcharts.com . Retrieved 4 February 2021. Pete Chambers: As part of the 30th Anniversary you’re re-recording Breaking Glass album with The Subterraneans and Roger Lomas producing, so why revisit it?Several months pass as the band tours the country, building up a large fanbase. On Christmas Eve the band is stranded when their van breaks down and the British Rail train drivers are on strike. It is at this point that Danny and Kate kiss for the first time and become a couple. A live performance during the Serious Moonlight Tour, filmed on 12 September 1983, was included on the Serious Moonlight concert video (1984) and the identically-named live album included with the Loving the Alien (1983–1988) box set (2018) and released separately in 2019. While recovering from her trauma, Kate is forced to audition for a famous music producer, Bob Woods ( Jon Finch), who makes it clear that he wants to produce her music and also be involved with her. Kate's new songs seem to help her recover mentally, but the rest of the band are not so happy. Danny finds himself being pushed more and more into the sidelines and Ken has no saxophone part to play on the big new single. On tour again, the agents start sowing seeds of discontent among the band, hinting heavily that Danny is the problem. This leads to a confrontation on the tour bus after which Danny storms out and quits. Woods now moves in as the band's manager and becomes Kate's new lover. HO: Well we do that with Clare Hirst on Saxophone, there’s a lot of songs I love, like Funny Valentine, Stormy Weather. So the idea is we have a loose collective, and it’s based around blues and jazz, hence the name. Though it’s more classic pop really, and we have people like, Sarah Fisher, Herbie Flowers coming in on bass and Cormac on the harp.