Hazel O Connor - Eighth Day

This single was the debut hit from the movie Breaking Glass, which Hazel was staring in. She starred as Kate, a singer songwriter who tries to crack the charts and the film shows the rise and fall of her and her band Breaking Glass, the pitfalls of the recording industry and the people involved. At the end of the film it shows her after being pumped with drugs, perform this amazing early 80's track, just before she runs off and suffers a nervous breakdown.

Released in the Summer of 1980 on A&M records, the single and the video to the single (from the movie) was so modern, so fresh and so amazing and very much reflected the futurism of 1980. The single got to number 5 in the charts and helped the soundtrack album and the movie do really well in the UK. Hazel had another couple of hit singles before becoming more known for being an actress in the mid 80's. When I listen to this track it still sounds so amazingly exciting and reminds me of when I first saw the clip of the song on TV and saving my pocket money up to buy a copy, money well spent!

Giorgio - From Here To Eternity

Fresh from the futuristic sound of Donna Summer's I Feel Love, her producer Giorgio Moroder carried on the sounds of the synthesizer and produced this sizeable hit from 1977. It was released in September 1977 and reached number 16 in the UK charts. The single was mixed down from a 6 minute album track to produce this single version which was big in the discos along with Donna's single!

The track isn't really remembered that much, I hardly ever hear of people talking about it but it seems the album it came off (named after the single) seems to have been such an influential album in late 70's electronic music. It was one of the first electronic tracks I had heard (along with I Feel Love, Kraftwerk's Autobahn and Jean Michel Jarre's Oxygene) and it is what really got me into the sounds of synths and electronic music, that is why I still really love this single. Try and listen to it if you can! Here's the scan of the single