“Breaking Glass” by Hazel O’Connor - album review

features in: Album Chart of 1980 ● Album Chart of the Decade: 1980s

Decent debut album from the intriguing 25-year-old singer-songwriter-actress: “I ran away from my home in Coventry when I was 16… made and sold clothes in Amsterdam, picked grapes in France, joined a dance troupe that went to Tokyo then onto Beirut (escaping the start of the civil war by one month!) travelled West Africa, crossed the Sahara, sang with a dreadful singing trio for the U.S. troops in Germany and came home to 'settle down'. Through all this experience of life and the world I realized that singing always cheered me up. I decided to be a singer. Through strange turns of fate I ended up in a film called 'Breaking Glass' I also ended up writing all the songs for the movie.” In the UK, 5 singles were lifted from the set: “Writing On The Wall” (Jun '80, didn't chart), “Eighth Day” (Aug '80, #5), “Give Me An Inch” (Oct '80, #41), “Will You?” (May '81, #8) and “Calls The Tune” (Jan '82, #60).

The Jukebox Rebel
23–Nov–2016

Tracklist

A1	[03:20] Hazel O’Connor - Writing On The Wall (Hazel O’Connor) New Wave
A2	[03:22] Hazel O’Connor - Monsters In Disguise (Hazel O’Connor) New Wave
A3	[03:42] Hazel O’Connor - Come Into The Air (Hazel O’Connor) New Wave
A4	[03:04] Hazel O’Connor - Big Brother (Hazel O’Connor) New Wave
A5	[03:09] Hazel O’Connor - Who Needs It (Hazel O’Connor) New Wave
A6	[04:49] Hazel O’Connor - Will You? (Hazel O’Connor) Pop Ballad
B1	[03:11] Hazel O’Connor - Eighth Day (Hazel O’Connor) New Wave
B2	[03:15] Hazel O’Connor - Top Of The Wheel (Hazel O’Connor) Cerebral Pop
B3	[03:00] Hazel O’Connor - Calls The Tune (Hazel O’Connor) Pop Ballad
B4	[03:44] Hazel O’Connor - Blackman (Hazel O’Connor) New Wave
B5	[03:08] Hazel O’Connor - Give Me An Inch (Hazel O’Connor) New Wave
B6	[04:15] Hazel O’Connor - If Only (Hazel O’Connor) Songwriter

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