The second single ‘What Is Love?’ reached No. 2 in the UK and the third, the enigmatic ‘Hide and Seek’, showed the spiritual side of Howard Jones’ writing. These were followed by his first album, ‘Human’s Lib’ (April 1984), which came straight in at No. 1 in the UK, eventually going platinum, taking the synthesiser and Howard Jones to a new plateau. This success spread across the globe with ‘Human’s Lib’ going gold in USA, Japan, Germany, Italy and Australia.

The second album ‘Dream Into Action’ was even more successful, spawning a series of hits including ‘Like To Get To Know You Well’, ‘Look Mama’, ‘Things Can Only Get Better’ and the classic ‘No One Is To Blame’, which reached No.1 in the U.S. singles chart and has since had over 3 million radio plays in USA. ‘Dream Into Action’ went platinum in the U.S. and lived in the top 20 album chart for the best part of a year, making Howard Jones one of the very few British artists to have comprehensively ‘broken’ America in the past 25 years.

In 1985, Howard performed 'Hide and Seek' at Live Aid which has since been featured on the Live Aid DVD (released in 2006). The following year (1986), Howard was voted Keyboard Player of the Year in Rolling Stone magazine, and in 1987 and 1989 he toured the world extensively, headlining Madison Square Garden in New York, the Forum in LA, The Budokan in Tokyo.

After three more albums on Warner/Elektra (‘One To One’ [1987], ‘Cross That Line’ [1988] and ‘In The Running’ [1992]), accompanied by successful world tours, and following his 1993 release ‘The Best of Howard Jones.’, Howard’s worldwide albums sales soon exceeded eight million.

A classically trained piano player, Howard soon decided to take a completely unexpected path and in 1996, without a synth in sight, he embarked on ‘The Acoustic Tour’ which featured Howard on grand piano accompanied only by Carol Steele on percussion. This proved to be a huge success and was recorded live at the Variety Arts Theatre in Los Angeles, later released as ‘Live Acoustic America’, rated as one of the best live albums ever recorded. This was followed in 1999 by a new studio album ‘People’ which many true Howard Jones fans regard as his best ever album.

Always one to present the unexpected, Howard next formed a full band, which featured Nick Beggs (Kajagoogoo/Ellis Beggs and Howard) on bass and Chapman stick, Robin Boult on guitars and the legendary Kevin Wilkinson (China Crisis/The Waterboys/Squeeze) on drums. This superb band toured the world throughout 1998 and the first half of 1999, including a major tour of the USA with Culture Club and Human League.

In 2000, Howard appeared on the infamous ‘Night of the Proms’ tour of Europe with a 72-piece orchestra and a 50-piece choir, followed in the summer of 2001, with Howard assuming the keyboardist role on the Ringo Starr tour of USA and Canada. The band featured Greg Lake on bass, Sheila E and Ringo on drums, Ian Hunter and Roger Hodgson on guitars and Howard on keyboards. In addition to performing his three biggest US hits ‘No One Is To Blame’, Things Can Only Get Better’, and ‘Everlasting Love’ each night, Howard also fulfilled a lifetime ambition, playing Emerson Lake and Palmer’s ‘Karnevil 9’ with Greg Lake and Sheila E, the Keith Emerson classic keyboard arrangement regarded as one of the most difficult contemporary keyboard pieces ever written.

During the ensuing years (2001-2003), Howard continued to tour and record in various configurations, in particular recording an album of intimate piano solos, demonstrating his superb piano playing, as well as performing a 20th Anniversary concert at London’s Shepherd’s Bush Empire in celebration of the release of the single ‘New Song’. The concert was performed in four parts; “acoustic,” “retro,” “electronic band,” and “big band.” The entire concert was released as 'The 20th Anniversary Concert DVD'. To tie in with this 20th Anniversary celebration, Warner Music UK released a special double CD entitled ‘The Very Best Of’, including a limited edition special CD of Howard Jones single B sides.

In November of 2006, Howard’s podcast of “Building our own future” went straight to #1 on the worldwide podcast countdown charts with ¾’s of a million downloads, and remained there for 3 weeks, a feat no other artist had achieved to date.

In the last few years, Howard has continued to release new recordings, including a second piano instrumental entitled “Piano Solos Volume Two” (featuring a bonus CD in 5.1 Surround Sound) as well as touring throughout the world, and making a special appearance at the “Music for Youth” charity concert at Carnegie Hall. A brand new studio album ‘Ordinary Heroes’ was release in October 2009.

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