Tonya

The Australian writer Henry Handel Richardson (1870–1946) was christened Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson: she adopted a male nom de plume in anticipation of professional prejudice. Although she made an international reputation as a novelist, she first trained as a pianist, and she wrote songs all her life – but they remained unpublished, so that her output as a composer has been completely overlooked. Her songs are straightforward and melodious, drawing their inspiration from Romantic German Lieder and Edwardian drawing-room ballads, lullabies and parlour songs in the manner of Bridge, Ireland, Quilter and other such composers.

This is the soundtrack album for Craig Gillespie’s film biography, of infamous Olympic figure skater Tonya Harding (Margot Robbie). Since most of the film takes place in the early 1990s, the soundtrack for the movie, I, Tonya, is largely made up of music from that time period. You can find here songs from Bad Company, Supertramp, Chris Stills, Fleetwood Mac, etc.