Saturday, 3 September 2016

Breaking Glass - Hazel O'Conner - British Music

Last night I was listening to music on YouTube and came across the fantastic Hazel O'Connor song ‘Will You’ from the soundtrack of her film Breaking Glass. Has I was listening I thought to myself it’s been a while since I last watched the film. While I was on YouTube, I undertook a search to see if there was a copy of the full film. Bingo there was.

A rock singer, Kate (Hazel O’Connor) is determined to rise to the top of the profession, letting nothing stand in the way of that goal. This 1980 smash surely represents Hazel’s finest moment and backed by a sterling British cast.

Breaking Glass came about during the rise of the new wave era her music and anyone interested in pop music, and not familiar with British music trends of the late-seventies, should be sure to watch Breaking Glass at least once.

The movie, about a young woman's quest to make her mark in the music world, captures the times perfectly, from the overt sexism, rough economic times, social upheaval, to the shift in pop culture from rough-and-tumble punk to terribly fey and pretentious Futurism/New Romanticism. The music and fashion styles created daily in Britain in the late-seventies are still being rediscovered and recycled (there really has been nothing new since 1980). This was a dazzling time, and Breaking Glass both tells a very personal story and surveys the cultural landscape, and does both extremely well.



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