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: 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. 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.

HAZEL O'CONNOR | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". www.officialcharts.com . Retrieved 4 February 2021. The original song was uncompromising even by Low 's standards. The fractured lyric is, like several songs written during Bowie's stay in Berlin, introspective of his dark, drug-filled period living in America in 1975–1976. Its lyrics, when written out, look potentially more like a paragraph than a song, and when separated into phrases, the song has a disjointed feeling. The song is also curiously short, not spanning two minutes and only going through one verse.

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.

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?The images used on the picture disc are by Masayoshi Sukita (A-Side) and Andrew Kent (AA-Side) taken during the Isolar II tour of 1978. 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. 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. Bowie performed "Breaking Glass" on his Isolar II, Serious Moonlight, Outside, Heathen, and A Reality tours. 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.

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. Laws, Roz (29 November 2015). "Look at Duran Duran's Simon Le Bon when he was unknown and broke". BirminghamLive . Retrieved 4 February 2021. 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. November 2018, sees the release of the latest limited DAVID BOWIE 7" picture disc, the 40th-anniversary edition of the BREAKING GLASS EP. Performances from the tour can be heard on the 2020 albums Ouvrez Le Chien (Live Dallas 95) and No Trendy Réchauffé (Live Birmingham 95).

Notes

Breaking Glass’ was issued as the third single in November 1978 in Australia, with ‘Art Decade’ on the b-side. 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.