Monday 23 March 2009

Hazel O'Connor - Eighth Day.

In 1989 Hazel wrote - "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" Wikipedia.

5 comments:

subrosa said...

I think Scunnert Nation see his blog) is a fan of hers.

Andrew Suz said...

I saw her sing this live at a CND benefit gig in Brixton in 1982!

Daily Referendum said...

Thanks subrosa, I'll have a look.

Daily Referendum said...

Andrew,

I wish I'd seen her live back then.

Not a sheep said...

Ah the memories.