Whatever happened to the singer Howard Jones?

Answer 1

check on his official site

http://www.howardjones.com/

Answer 2

Howard has continued to tour and write new music, more recently collaborating with Robbie Bronniman (DBA) to co-produce music for the Sugababes and his 2005 studio album Revolution of the Heart.

Howard has been extremely busy in the past few years touring the world-playing gigs in the US, Italy, Germany and Sweden to name a few countries. He has been putting the finishing touches to a new acoustic album, a second album of piano solos and remixing some tracks from his last album. He is due to play a number of nights at the Edinburgh festival in Scotland (2006). In 2006, Howard Jones did a vocal for the song "Into the Dark" by Ferry Corsten for L.E.F..

In October 2006, he released the song "Building Our Own Future" as a podsafe track, as one of several established artists looking to use podcasts as a new means of promoting their music and tours.

Answer 3

Howard is still performing and recording - he just doesn't seem to be 'fashionable' anymore, which is a shame, because he was one of the better solo artists around in the 80s. His latest album is 'Revolution of the Heart' and he is about to tour again. See Howard's website http://www.howardjones.com/hojo.html

Answer 4

He's still around - he was my hero as a kid and the first concert I ever saw! My best friend took me to see him in Aylesbury last year for my birthday - pretty small venue and he was great. He's been making albums since he disappeared from mainstream music all those years ago and released a new album last year. His stuff now is much more dance. orientated He's brilliant - check out ebay and the like for his recent stuff.

Answer 5

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 Somerset.

When he was young, he used to give piano lessons. One of his clients was a girl named Jan Smith, whom 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, a Roland SH-101. 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 and US top 30. 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 and father, Thelma and John Jones, 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 synthesizer 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 different languages; while Howard sang the title line in French and German on the extended version. The song appeared in the film Better Off Dead.

Howard's second album was a ground breaking 'remix' album. It contained six songs, all but one of which had been previously released, but which appeared in elongated formats, including the multi-lingual version of "Like To Get To Know You Well". The album was called The 12 Inch Album and the sleeve featured a miniature Howard standing next to a 12-inch ruler.

When he released his second studio album, Dream Into Action, in 1985, he introduced his own backing band, including future Soul II Soul singer Caron Wheeler as one third of female backing vocal trio Afrodiziak. Playing bass guitar, meanwhile, was Howard's own brother Martin, who had to have an extra string added to his instrument to play some of Howard's bass lines, which were originally played on a keyboard without regard for the range of a real bass guitar. One of the singles released from this album, "No One Is To Blame", was later re-recorded and featured Phil Collins as drummer and producer.

In July 1985, Howard performed at Wembley Stadium as part of the Live Aid concert, singing his 1984 hit "Hide And Seek" while playing a piano belonging to Freddie Mercury.

Howard had his last UK Top 40 hit in 1986 and thereafter concentrated on production, songwriting and running a successful vegetarian restaurant called Nowhere. However, he had Billboard Top 10 success in the States in the 1990s. Howard's recording contract with Warner Bros. Records/WEA was canceled after the release of In The Running and The Best Of Howard Jones. He responded by starting his own record label Dtox and producing an album in his own studio The Shed which was made available only at gigs and through his website. Artists affiliated with Howard's Dtox label include Martin Grech, DBA, Shaz Sparks and The Itch (Robin Boult).

In 2001, Howard played keyboards for Beatles legend Ringo Starr for Ringo's AllStar Band tour. The 2001 All Starr Band line-up consisted of ex-Supertramp frontman Roger Hodgson, dance-music percussionist Sheila E., former Mott the Hoople singer Ian Hunter and King Crimson/Emerson, Lake and Palmer singer-bassist Greg Lake. Howard fulfilled two life-long ambitions on this tour: to play live in a band with a member of the Beatles and to play Karn Evil 9 live. Keith Emerson’s classic keyboard arrangement is regarded as one of the most difficult keyboard pieces ever written.

On 20th September, 2003, Howard played a unique 20th Anniversary Concert at the Shepherds Bush Empire, London, commemorating the release of his first single. The gig consisted of four sets: Acoustic, Retro, Electronic and Full Band, featuring music from his twenty year career. He was joined by friends Midge Ure (Ultravox) and Nena, as well as his mime artist, Jed Hoile. A recording of this concert has since been released on DVD.

Howard has continued to tour and write new music, more recently collaborating with Robbie Bronniman (DBA) to co-produce music for the Sugababes and his 2005 studio album Revolution of the Heart.

Howard has been extremely busy in the past few years touring the world-playing gigs in the US, Italy, Germany and Sweden to name a few countries. He has been putting the finishing touches to a new acoustic album, a second album of piano solos and remixing some tracks from his last album. He is due to play a number of nights at the Edinburgh festival in Scotland (2006). In 2006, Howard Jones did a vocal for the song "Into the Dark" by Ferry Corsten for L.E.F