‘Will You’ by Hazel O’Connor comes from the film ‘Breaking Glass’ where Hazel O’Connor plays an up and coming rock starlet and it is this song which is the one I most remember from the film.
In this day and age with video on demand and the ability to save various media as computer files, it seems bizarre to imagine a time when the video recorder was new, but when I first saw this film (alongside some ‘Gary Numan’ live music videos and horror films!) my friend Melanie had hired a ‘video player’ as well as the VHS video tapes themselves so she could have a few friends round on a rainy day to watch them. At that time a video was recorder was so expensive hardly anyone owned one!
Melanie (like myself) loved her music and was a whizz with technology and somehow managed to hook up the sound from the video recorder to the stereo and so we watched her Gary Numan video first (she was a massive fan of his!) before we sat down to watch the other films listening to the music through the speakers.
‘Breaking Glass’ is a truly great film, however as I have not seen it for 29 years maybe it might seem a little dated now but I loved the music and the story and I loved this song, particularly the saxophone solo which went on to be used in a Phillips Electric Razor advertisement so got a lot of airplay!
Listen to the song…..
No comments:
Post a Comment