Tony Holiday

Tony Richardson continued in the vein of kitchen-sink realism with this adaptation of Shelagh Delaney's novel of working-class life. Set in England in the early 1960s, A TASTE OF HONEY stars Rita Tushingham as the waifish Jo, a plain 17-year-old girl who is dragged from one shabby bed-sitter to another by Helen (Dora Bryan), her promiscuous, alcoholic termagant of a mother. When Helen and her current lover, Peter (Robert Stephens), take a holiday in Blackpool, Jo goes along and, while walking on the beach, meets Jimmy (Paul Danquah), a black sailor on leave. After they spend the night together Jimmy's ship leaves for points unknown. Helen and Peter have impulsively decided to marry, and they move into his flat, leaving Jo in the cold. She gets a job in a shoe store, where she meets gay and mild-mannered Geoffrey, and the two decide to move into a flat together. Jo soon discovers she's carrying Jimmy's child, news that depresses her. But Geoffrey couldn't be happier, and he begins knitting baby clothes, goes to a clinic for child-care instruction, and even offers to marry Jo. This moving film is exceptionally well acted and directed; it is a tribute to Richardson's boldness in taking on the theme of miscegenation, then a much more controversial issue.

Trick Or Treat! Am 31. Oktober ist es wieder soweit und die 40 monstermäßigen Hits von Künstlern wie Bob Mc Faden, Ike Turner, The Keytones & Bobby Boris Pickett and the Crypt Kickers verwandeln jede Halloween Party in ein ausgelassenes Horror-Spektakel. Der gruselige Partydance kann beginnen!

Remixed and Reimagined is the second entry in Sony BMG’s Legacy Remixed series. This entry features Billie Holiday recordings culled from her years on Columbia Records.

Scotland s favourite family release their latest assault on the charts. The The Broons Summer Holiday is a superb collection of original hits dating back to the 50 s and 60 s including over 50 UK No 1 s. Containing over 5 hours of wonderful music, The Broons Summer Holiday is giving the chance for everyone who grew up during this special time, the chance to own what probably amounts to their old record collection on one great CD Box Set!

Billie Holiday, known one of the greatest voices of all time as well as a woman of breathtaking talent and global popularity, was a figure of controversy throughout her short life - a black woman in a white man’s world, a victim and a rebel. Her infamous Strange Fruit, the first protest song of the civil rights movement, earned her powerful enemies. She was also an enigma, her telling of her own life story a mix of half truths and free-form improvisations.