#53 Howard Jones, Keyboardist Extraordinaire Interview
The Not Old - Better Show
Paul Vogelzang
4.7 • 106 Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2016
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Howard Jones, Keyboardist Extraordinaire Interview
Howard Jones is currently touring and will be in Leesburg, VA Nov 28, at the Tally Ho Theater. Tickets and information HERE.
We caught up with Howard recently and talked ELP, his gear, his music and what's next for the pioneer keyboard artist.
It was in 1983 that Howard Jones released his first single "New Song" in the UK. The expectation was that it might sell a few thousand copies and introduce his fresh new music to an unsuspecting world. The reality was quite different. The single steadily
climbed the UK chart to peak at No. 3. Then came the second single "What Is Love?" which reached No. 2, and then Things Can Only Get Better", and the classic "No One Is To Blame", which reached No. 1 in the U.S. singles chart.
Howard Jones, of course, is well-known for these and a series of colossal hit albums and 15 top-40 hit singles throughout the '80s and '90s. The British musician's work also played a pioneering role in the introduction and acceptance of synthesizers and sequencers in pop and rock recordings and performances.
It would be easy for Jones to rest on his laurels and rely solely on performing his hits. However, that's simply not an option for him. Still active, still engaged, highly creative, Howard Jones will be in Leesburg, VA Nov 28, at the Tally Ho Theater.
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| 0:00.0 | The Welcome to the Not Old Better Show, I'm your host Paul Vogel-Ang. |
| 0:18.0 | It was in 1983 that Howard Jones released his first single new song in the UK. |
| 0:25.0 | The expectation then was that it might sell a few thousand copies |
| 0:29.0 | and introduce Howard Jones's fresh new music to an unsuspecting world. |
| 0:34.0 | The reality was quite different. |
| 0:37.0 | That single steadily climbed up the UK charts |
| 0:40.0 | to peak at number three then came the second single what is love which reached number |
| 0:44.7 | two then things can only get better followed up with the classic no one is to blame which |
| 0:51.2 | reached number one in the US singles chart. |
| 0:54.0 | Howard Jones of course is well known for these and a series of colossal hit albums and 15 top 40 hit singles throughout |
| 1:06.5 | the 80s and the 90s. |
| 1:07.8 | The British Musicians' work also played a pioneering role in the introduction and acceptance of synthesizers and sequencers in pop |
| 1:16.4 | and rock recordings and performances and still has enormous influence even to this day. It would have been easy for Jones to rest on his laurels |
| 1:27.1 | and rely solely on performing his hits. However, that's simply not an option for him. He's still active. He's still engaged. |
| 1:35.0 | He's very creative. Howard Jones is currently touring and he'll be in Leesburg, |
| 1:40.0 | Virginia, November 28th at the Tally Ho Theater. |
| 1:43.0 | Howard Jones is our guest today on the Not Old Better Show. |
| 1:46.1 | Welcome, Howard Jones. |
| 1:47.3 | The insecurity is the thing that won't get lost. Well, Howard Jones, |
| 1:55.0 | Jones, welcome to the show. |
| 1:56.1 | I just have to start with the technology |
| 1:59.2 | that's just, I think, very much on my mind. |
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