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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? A total of five singles were released from the album, with the second single " Eighth Day", released in August 1980, becoming O'Connor's most successful, peaking at number 5 on the UK Singles Chart. " Will You?", released in May 1981 was also a Top-Ten hit. By the time the final single, "Calls the Tune" was released in January 1982, O'Connor had released a further two albums, Sons and Lovers and Cover Plus. Despite this, the single managed to chart at number 60 in the UK. [8] Reception [ edit ] 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. The lines "Don't look at the carpet; I drew something awful on it" refer to Bowie's practice of drawing the Tree of Life on the floor during that period, as he was interested in Aleister Crowley and Qabalah at the time. 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.

IT is 30 years since Breaking Glass, the film that launched Coventry’s Hazel O’Connor, was released. Pete Chambers met up with Hazel to talk about her Breaking Glass Live tour, which comes to Leamington on March 25. Bowie next played ‘Breaking Glass’ in 1995 during the Outside Tour. Bowie and his band performed the ‘Australian’ arrangement of the song, with the vocal parts repeated. 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] 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) . Hazel O’Connor: There’s a couple of reasons, one, is that over 30 years my voice has changed a lot and developed, I think that the songs on that album were very seminal. Because I have worked with the Subterraneans for five years I thought it would be a nice thing to do between us, and of course Roger Lomas, who has really supported me in this town. So it’s me doffing my cap to the people I work with and doffing my cap to the songs that I wrote.Performances from the tour can be heard on the 2020 albums Ouvrez Le Chien (Live Dallas 95) and No Trendy Réchauffé (Live Birmingham 95). The final scene shows Kate catatonic at a mental hospital where Danny comes to visit her and to bring her a synthesiser. 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". PC: Apart from the live show and the acoustic Beyond Breaking Glass, you also have the Bluja Project, tell us about that? 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.

Malins, Steve (2006). Notorious: The Unauthorised Biography. André Deutsch/Carlton Publishing, UK. ISBN 0-233-00137-9, p. 60 Two separate live recordings of the song, performed during Bowie's 1995–96 Outside Tour, appear on the live albums Ouvre le Chien (Live Dallas 95) (2020) and No Trendy Réchauffé (Live Birmingham 95) (2020). HAZEL O'CONNOR | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". www.officialcharts.com . Retrieved 4 February 2021.HO: It’s been a life changing experience for me and certainly for my mum, when she got diagnosed with terminal cancer. She ended up in Myton Hospital last Christmas, and we spent a beautiful two weeks for her to have respite, to get strong in spirit and she’s strong for the time being. I get asked to do a lot of charity things, so I’m doing as much as I can. I’ve written a special song that won’t come out now till autumn, it’s something I had written for my mum and stepfather, who has recently passed away. It’s a lovely song and a celebration, and that’s what all of us leave a celebration of a life. November 2018, sees the release of the latest limited DAVID BOWIE 7" picture disc, the 40th-anniversary edition of the BREAKING GLASS EP. A November 2003 live version recorded on the A Reality Tour was released on the A Reality Tour album, in 2010. Bowie performed "Breaking Glass" on his Isolar II, Serious Moonlight, Outside, Heathen, and A Reality tours. Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge.