Breaking Glass

Breaking Glass is a 1980 British film starring Hazel OConnor, Phil Daniels and Jonathan Pryce and coproduced by Dodi Fayed and written and directed by Brian Gibson.

The film depicts the rise and fall of Kate Hazel OConnor, an angry but creative young singer and songwriter. At the beginning of the film, she is discovered by Danny Phil Daniels, a young man who desperately wants to become a promoter of music bands but is stuck working for another agent who forces him to buy hundreds of copies of the singles of one of his artists, Suzie Sapphire, to fix the music charts. Danny takes an active part in controlling Kates career, impressed with her talent if not her band, whom he promptly fires. He arranges auditions and reaches out to former friends, and in doing so Kates new band, Breaking Glass is formed. Breaking Glass consists of Kate on vocals and keyboard, best friends Tony Mark Wingett and Dave Gary Tibbs on lead and bass guitar respectively, the drugaddicted and partially deaf Ken Jonathan Pryce on saxophone and the mental Mick PeterHugo Daly on drums.Danny does his best to promote the band but finds it hardgoing. The best he can do is several nights in a pub frequented by neonazis, which, given Kates anarchist and liberal tendencies that shine through in her songwriting, doesnt go well. After a brawl breaks out one night and the publican refuses to pay the band, Danny finally manages to persuade the antiestablishment Kate to record a demo tape. Danny and Kate then take the demo tape to a gig promoter who shows no interest. ........

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