So Hazel O’Connor is touring. Also book and DVD. Busy.

Having just celebrated thirty years since Dodi Fayed’s iconic movie Breaking Glass launched her into the spotlight, award-winning singer songwriter Hazel O’Connor will be setting out on the road this autumn and touring the UK performing all her Greatest Hits together for the first time ever in a highly anticipated live show to coincide with the release of the digitally re-mastered special edition DVD of Breaking Glass.
Melding Hazel’s superb vocals with soaring sax, guitar, piano, bass and drums, this is the full band sound featuring Clare Hirst on sax (Bellestars, Communards, Bowie) and Sarah Fisher on keyboards (Eurythmics). Her ageless songs include Eighth Day, Will You, Big Brother, Monsters in Disguise, Calls The Tune, If Only, Give Me An Inch , Blackman, Hanging Around and That’s Life, all of which seem even more relevant today.

Hazel O’Connor started her professional life as a dancer working in such diverse countries as Japan and the Lebanon. In 1980, she was catapulted to stardom as Kate in the film Breaking Glass for which she also wrote and performed the iconic soundtrack. She won the Variety Club of Great Britain’s 1980 Film Actress Of The Year Award and, in 1981, was nominated for BAFTA Best Newcomer and Breaking Glass was nominated for Best Film Soundtrack – earning Hazel her place in the history books as the first woman to write and perform all the songs for a film.

In addition to the release of Breaking Glass on DVD, this unique tour also coincides with the publication of Hazel’s long-awaited autobiography Breaking Glass Barefoot which will be available exclusively from Hazel’s official website or throughout the tour. The paperback version will be available early in 2013.