There are two persons with this name. 1. Howard Jones (born John Howard Jones on February 23, 1955) is an English singer and songwriter. He is the eldest of three boys. His birthplace is Southampton, England, and he spent his early years in High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, and attended the Royal Grammar School. He now lives with his family in Maidenhead, England. When he was young, he used to give piano lessons. One of his clients was a girl named Jan Smith, who he later married. Whilst working with her, a vehicle crashed into their van, injuring Jan. She claimed compensation and used the money to buy Howard a synthesiser, Moog Prodigy. The shop delivered two by mistake, and Howard liked the combination of the two so much that he paid for the extra one. He hit the charts in 1983 with a song called "New Song," which made it into the UK top ten. He subsequently had three more hits over the next twelve months and a UK Number 1 album, Human's Lib. He acquired a hardcore fanbase made up of both starstruck teenagers and more mature music lovers, who saw the musicianship which went into the electronic sounds of his songs. His mother ran his fan club. Jones was a close temporal and stylistic contemporary of Nik Kershaw, and the two musicians were often conflated in the affections of the contemporary pop audience. Howard was known as a respectable face of pop, combining innovative synthesiser music with strong feelings on animal rights and life's excesses. In his early days, he performed with a mime artist called Jed Hoile, who used to do improvised choreography while doused in white paint as Howard played behind him. In the summer of 1984, he released a single called "Like To Get To Know You Well", which he said was 'dedicated to the original spirit of the Olympic Games'. Although it wasn't an official Olympic anthem for the Games in Los Angeles that summer, it caught on and was a huge worldwide hit. The sleeve featured the song title in ten differ
1 | No One Is To Blame (Live) | Ringo Starr & His New All Starr Band |
2 | Is There a Difference? | Dream Into Action |
3 | City Song | The Best of Howard Jones |
4 | Don't Always Look At The Rain | Human's Lib |
5 | Everlasting Love (Live Acoustic America) | Live Acoustic America |
6 | Natural | Human's Lib |
7 | Road To Cairo | Rubaiyat - Elektra's 40th Anniversary (Disc 1) |
8 | Specialty | Dream Into Action |
9 | Conditioning | Human's Lib |
10 | Automaton | Dream Into Action |
11 | What Is Love? | Human's Lib |
12 | Look Mama | Dream Into Action |
13 | No-One Is To Blame | Dream Into Action |
14 | Hunt The Self | Human's Lib |
15 | What's Love | Human's Lib; The 12" Album |
16 | Pearl In The Shell | Human's Lib |
17 | Things Can Only Get Better | Dream Into Action |
18 | Human's Lib | Human's Lib |
19 | Like To Get To Know You Well | Dream Into Action |
20 | New Song (Live Acoustic America) | Live Acoustic America |