Howard Jones
Howard Jones was born in Southampton, England, United Kingdom on February 23rd, 1955 and is the Pop Singer. At the age of 69, Howard Jones biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, songs, and networth are available.
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John Howard Jones (born 23 February 1955) is an English singer, guitarist, and songwriter.
Between 1983 and 1986, he had ten top-five hits in the United Kingdom, including "What Is Love," "New Song," and "Things Can Only Get Better."
His 1984 album Human's Lib debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart.
Jones had 15 top 40 hit singles from 1983 to 1992 around the world.
The hit single "No One Is to Blame" from 1986 reached no. On the US charts, there are 4 places.
Jones is associated with the Second British Invasion of the United States in the 1980s.
AllMusic editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine has referred to him as "one of the signature figures of mid-'80s synth-pop." In 1985, he appeared at the historic Live Aid concert.
Early life
Howard Jones, a boy from Southampton, spent his early years in Rhiwbina, South Wales, where he attended Heol Llanishen Fach Primary School and later Whitchurch Grammar School. Howard is the eldest of four boys. His brothers, Roy, Martin, and Paul, are all musicians in their own right. Young Howard began taking piano lessons at the age of seven. He later attended the Royal Grammar School in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. When he was a boy, the family immigrated to Canada. Warrior, a progressive rock band, was his first band.
Jones debuted in Manchester in the mid-1970s while playing in various bands before returning to the United Kingdom. Bill Bryant, a Buddhist songwriter who wrote lyrics for some of Jones' songs and was a major figure in this period, met him. In the late 1970s, the Jones brothers formed Red Beat, a band.
Personal life
Jones is married to Jan Smith.
Jones began practising Nichiren Buddhism as a member of the international Buddhist organisation Soka Gakkai International; he has credited his daily routine of chanting "Nam myoho renge kyo" (I devote myself to the Lotus Sutra) since 1991 as "having a profoundly positive influence on my life."
Jones lived in Creech St Michael, Somerset, as of 2006. He is a vegan.
Career
Jones appeared as a solo artist in local venues in High Wycombe before inviting mime artist Jed Hoile to perform improvised choreography as Jones stood behind him. In 1983, he joined the Marquee Club in London and invited record labels to attend and see him perform. Jones obtained support slots with China Crisis and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD), shortly before committing to Warner Music Group (WMG) in mid-1983. Keith Emerson and Stevie Wonder are among OMD's influence (whose song "Enola Gay" was covered by Jones in early live broadcast sets), OMD (whose album "Enola Gay") have been cited by him).
In September 1983, his first album, "New Song," was released. It ranked in the top 30 in the United States and the top 5 in the United Kingdom. On Sunday, he made his debut on BBC Television's Top of the Pops, and he viewed his tape-delayed appearance on a borrowed television resting on an ironing board before a concert at the University of Kent. He had four more hits in the ensuing 12 months, as well as a UK number one album, Human's Lib, which went double platinum. Bill Bryant was credited with co-writing the lyrics for six of the album's songs."New Song", "What Is Love?
During 1983 and 1984, "Pearl in the Shell" and "Pearl in the Shell" all did well. In several nations, Human's Lib was awarded gold and platinum. Jones had a devoted teen fanbase. His parents were involved in his fan club.He wrote "I Want to Know You Well" in 1984, which he said was "dedicated to the Olympic Games' original spirit.' Despite the fact that it was not an official Olympic anthem for the Games in Los Angeles this summer, it was a worldwide success. It's now No. 1. 4 on the UK Singles Chart. The song name appeared in ten different languages, while Jones performed the title line in French and German on the extended 12" version. The song appeared in the film Better Off Dead (1985) and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (2006).
Jones' second album was a remix album. It contained six songs, none of which had been previously announced, but all of them had been released before long, including the multilingual version of "I Like to Get to Know You Well." In the United Kingdom, the album was rated gold.
Jones' second studio album, Dreams Into Action, featured backup by the trio Afrodiziak. Caron Wheeler and Claudia Fontaine were among the Afrodiziaks to perform. Martin's brother, Martin, played bass guitar. To play any of the bass lines, he had to have an additional string attached to his keyboard. "No One Is to Blame," one of the album's hits, was later re-recorded, with Phil Collins as drummer and producer and backing vocals. (This second version appears on Jones' U.S. EP Action Replay, as well as a bonus track on the following LP One to One). Dream into Action, Jones' most well-received album, debuted in the United Kingdom and number 10 in the United States, and remained on the US charts for almost a year. "Life in a Day," "Things Can Only Get Better," and "Look Mama" appeared on this album. Jones appeared at Wembley Stadium in July 1985 as part of the Live Aid Festival, performing his 1984 hit "Hide and Seek" and playing piano. He also started on a world tour.
In 1986, the EP Action Replay was first published. It contained the re-recorded version of "No One Is to Blame." Howard Jones' greatest US hit, despite debuting at number four on the charts. However, by this time, his fortunes were fading in his native United Kingdom, and "No One Is to Blame" hit number 16; "All I Want" was his first UK top 40 hit, and his next UK top 40 hit, "All I Want," peaked at number 35. Despite achieving gold sales success, Jones' third studio album, One to One, debuted in October 1986, peaking at number ten in the UK and his final UK hit song. Jones, on the other hand, continued to sell big arenas, and the single "You Know I Love You" didn't please? On the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in 1986, he ranked in the top ten.
Jones performed at the Milton Keynes Bowl at Amnesty International's Festival of Youth in June 1988. In the United Kingdom, Jones' subsequent album, Cross That Line (1989), did poorly. However, "Everlasting Love" by 1989 singles (his second US Adult Contemporary number one hit after "No One Is to Blame") and "The Prisoner" charted in the United States, respectively. Jones began to appear in large venues in the United States in the 1980s, and the Cross That Line Tour in 1989 played major outdoor venues in the United States.
In the United Kingdom, Jones' 1992 album In the Running failed to chart. In contrast, the single "Look Me Up" (1992) charted in the United States.
A greatest-hits collection The Best of Howard Jones was released in 1993, with his 10-year stint on the Warner Music label coming to an end. The album reached its peak in the United Kingdom by 36, and by 2005 (12 years since its introduction), it was rated silver by the BPI for over 60,000 copies sold in the United Kingdom.
In the early 1990s, Jones was a songwriter for other singers. He co-wrote the dance-music hits "Heaven Give Me Words" and "Your Wildlife" with the members of Propaganda. The tracks appeared on the 1990 album 1234; "Heaven Give Me Words" reached number 22 on the Adult Contemporary chart, and "Your Wildlife" reached number 22 on the Dance Music/Club Play Singles chart.
After Jones' WMG deal came to an end, he concentrated on writing, songwriting, and running a restaurant. He formed his own recording studio, 'Working in the Backroom,' a number of albums were released by the label, including 'The Shed.' The album, which sold over 20,000 copies in the first year of its debut, was only available at concerts and his official website.
Over the next two years, Jones toured the United States and Europe. Live Acoustic America came out in 1996 and 1998. People in 1998 and People in 1998.
On the soundtrack to the TV show Party of Five, the song "If You Love" was featured. During the mid-to-late 1990s, Jones continued to produce and write for a number of artists, including Martin Grech, DBA, and Sandie Shaw.
Jones appeared on the Ringo Starr & His All-Star Band tour in 2001.
Jones appeared at the Shepherd's Bush Empire, London, on September 20, 2003, a 20th anniversary tribute to the debut of his first album. Jed Hoile, a mime artist, was among his many guests, as well as Midge Ure and Nena. Later this year, a live recording of this concert was released on DVD. Jones went out on tour and recorded new music, collaborating with Robbie Bronnimann to co-write and co-produce songs for Su Sugbes and Jones' 2005 album Revolution of the Heart. In 2006, he appeared in the United States, Italy, Germany, and Sweden and Sweden, as well as at the Edinburgh Festival for the first time. Jones recorded a vocal for Ferry Corsten's album "Into the Sun" the same year, L.E.F. In Simlish, the fictional language used by characters in Electronic Arts' The Sims 2, Jones also re-recorded "Things Can Only Get Better." Jones was also featured on Katrina Carlson's "No One Is to Blame" in the US Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart in 2007.
Jones, one of several well-known artists attempting to market their music and tours, launched "Building Our Own Future" as a podsafe track in October 2006. On October 29, 2006, the song debuted at number one on the PMC Top 10 for the first time and spent four weeks at the top of the charts. During 2007, Howard's album "Revolution of the Heart" debuted at number one on the PMC Top10 for five weeks, and the year as the year's No. 1 song in their annual countdown.
In 2007, Jones began in Brisbane and ended in Perth on May 5th. Live in Birkenhead carried the Revolution Remixed & Surrounded album in November. On September 1, 2007, Jones performed another acoustic set at Culzean Castle in Ayrshire, Scotland, alongside other 1980s performers at the Retrofest. Jones also went into the studios with The Young Punx to record vocals for their summer 2008 debut, "And the Feeling Continues On."
Jones is a member of S. Ka Gakkai International and is the musical director of one of the Glorious Life Chorus, one of the company's choirs. "Building Our Own Future" and "Respected" are two of the chorus's repertoire's hits. He returned to Australia in 2009, this time with singer Laura Clapp and music technologist Robbie Bronnimann. Jones appeared on "Hide and Seek" at the UK premiere of Roland's latest V-Piano in Bristol on February 26, 2009. He continues to tour and appeared at the 'Big Hair Affair 2009' in Pickering, North Yorkshire, on August 1, 2009.
Ordinary Heroes was released in November 2009 in London, Cardiff, and Manchester, with a string section and the Morriston Orpheus Choir (in St David's Hall in Cardiff). "Soon You'll Go" was a single that preceded the album's debut. Howard Jones said in an interview with the Stuck following the album's debut that the album's release, "Soon You'll Go" was inspired by his daughter's upcoming departure to university, but that the song has come to encompass the time he has with others.
Jones is a member of the Featured Artists Coalition, which was established in 2009.
A UK tour was announced on September 29, 2011. In April 2012, Human's Lib and Dream Into Action were held in eight venues. On Absolute Radio, Howard Jones and I had a weekly radio show called Electronic 80s.
He appeared on "The Song That Changed My Life" on BYUtv, Brigham Young University's cable station.
Engage's debut on Jones' own D-TOX Records in 2015.
He departed from touring with Barenaked Ladies as the opening act on their Last Summer on Earth US tour in 2016, reuniting with Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.
Jones joined Marillion's Steve Hogarth in the unveiling of a sculpture in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, in 2018.
Transform was announced on May 10, 2019. It includes three collaborations with electronic musician BT. It's the second electronic album in a series of four, with the first being Engage. In 2022, the third album Dialogue, which was a collection of eight songs, was released. In 2023, the fourth album in the set and his fifteenth studio album Global Citizen will be released.