Howard Jones - New song Official video. Top Of The Pops 1983

Nice quality video recorded from Top Of The Pops 1983. Howard Jones (born John Howard Jones, 23 February 1955, Southampton, Hampshire, England) is a Welsh musician. According to the Guinness Book of British Hit Singles & Albums, "Jones is an accomplished singer-songwriter who was a regular chart visitor in the mid 1980s with his brand of synthpop. Jones, who was equally popular in the U.S., appeared at Live Aid". Allmusic journalist, Stephen Thomas Erlewine adds, "Jones was one of the defining figures of mid 1980s synthpop. His music merged the technology intensive sound of new wave with the cheery optimism of hippies and late 1960s pop. Jones racked up a string of hits in the mid and late 1980s, before he retreated into being a cult figure in the 1990s".
He appeared as a solo artist in local venues in High Wycombe, before inviting the mime artist Jed Hoile, who used to do improvised choreography, whilst doused in white paint, as Jones played behind him. In 1983 Jones hired the Marquee Club in London and invited record labels to come and see him perform. After a well-received John Peel session he obtained support slots with China Crisis and OMD before signing to WEA in the UK and Elektra in the U.S. in the summer of 1983.

After Jones' contract with Warner Music UK expired, he concentrated on production, songwriting and running a successful vegetarian restaurant called 'Nowhere'.[3] He started his own record label, Dtox, and produced an album, Working in the Backroom, in his own recording studio ('The Shed'). The album was made available only at concerts and through his official website.[1][4]



In October 2006, Jones released "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. The song debuted at No.1 on the PMC Top10 on 29 October 2006 and spent four weeks at the top of the chart. Howard's track "Revolution of the Heart" spent five weeks at No.1 on the PMC Top10 during 2007 and finished the year as the No.2 song in their annual countdown.

Jones embarked on an acoustic tour of Australia in 2007, beginning in Brisbane and concluding on 5 April in Perth. The Revolution Remixed & Surrounded album was followed in November by Live in Birkenhead. Jones performed another acoustic set, with other 1980s acts at the Retrofest, on 1 September 2007 at Culzean Castle in Ayrshire, Scotland. Jones also went into the studios with The Young Punx to record vocals for their summer 2008 release, "And The Feel Goes On".

Jones is a member of Sōka Gakkai International, and is musical director of one of its choirs, the Glorious Life Chorus. The chorus performs some of his songs in its repertoire, including "Building Our Own Future" and "Respected". He returned to Australia again in 2009, this time accompanied by vocalist Laura Clapp and music technologist Robbie Bronnimann. On 26 February 2009 Jones was at the UK premiere of Roland's new V-Piano in Bristol and performed "Hide and Seek". He continues to tour, and played the 'Big Hair Affair 2009' on 1 August 2009 at the Ryedale Arena, Pickering, North Yorkshire.

His latest album, Ordinary Heroes was released in November 2009, and he toured London, Cardiff and Manchester with a string section and the Morriston Orpheus Choir (in St David's Hall in Cardiff). A single, "Soon You'll Go", preceded the album's launch.

According to the local BBC website, Jones currently lives in Creech St Michael, near Taunton, Somerset.

Jones is a member of the board of directors for the Featured Artists Coalition.

On 6 November 2010, Jones released re-masters of Human's Lib, and Dream Into Action (the re-masters were also available in a box set, which has since sold out) on his dtox webstore. The re-masters of The 12" Album, and Action Replay are set to be released on 21 February 2011; also available in a limited edition box set. Please visit my other Channel. Keep Rockin!.

[richardmyers]

Love beautiful sound of the Keyboard!!

[jacobausten]

My grandads the teacher in the music video

[alanrabjohns]

i, ve been waiting for so long yes Howard Jones & his finest introduction to us all what with the hair!!!! & bald guy on the video . November 1983 . don, t crack up, see both sides  drop of those mental chains!!! this song is a timeless classic 10 out of 10.

[rogerhoward]

'New Song ' is the debut single by musician, Howard Jones, released on the 17th September 1984. The song is taken from Jones debut album 'Human's Lib'. The single reached number three on the UK Singles Chart. The single spent 20 weeks on the Top 75. In the US, 'New Song' peaked at #27 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, although it was not released there until early 1984.
The B-side of this singe was titled 'Change the Man'. The 12' single featured an extended version of 'New Song' together with 'Change the Man' and the original version of 'Conditioning', which would be re-recorded for 'Human's Lib'.
'New Song' itself was later re-recorded for 'The 12' Album, in a version titled 'New Song (New Version). This featured a lot of multi-layered piano, in contrast to the austere synthesizer sound of the original 7' and 12' versions.
On the UK 7' single, the song's lyrics are printed on a spiral on the A-side label, with all the credits printed on the B-side.
I don't know who directed the music video for 'New Song' and would really like to know who directed it.

When Howard Jones released his debut single on the 17th September 1983, the UK really had a new and unique keyboard-synth Pop music artist, for the new decade of the early 1980's.
Firstly, it was Howard Jone's unique timbre of vocal expression that caught the public's imagination. It was a voice timbre, that just seemed perfectly right, for this new brand of new-wave pop music expression of the 1980's. Then you have Howard Jones unique way of playing Electronic Keyboard syntherzizers and the way they were recorded, that also seemed right for the dawn of the decade of the early 1980's.
Howard Jones really did seem like the continuation of what Thomas Dolby had achieved with Keyboard Syntherzizers songs he released, but with New Song, we were entering a new dynamic of electronic keyboard songs that were becoming a lot more modern and contemporary in artistic music expression.
This music video 9by today's standards) seems as cheap as chips, but that does the video no harm, infact its naturalness of real environments is to be appreciated at the dawn of natural realisms in the visuals of British music videos.
The music video for 'New Song' very much tries to capture a more modern and contemporary approach to music video, than we saw at the beginning of the decade.The approach of having a painted figure dance around Howard Jones as they move from one environment to the next, is just one of these approaches to the modern contemporary music video.
When we reach the school environment, this music video is almost similar to Gerald Scarfe's music video of Pink Floyd's 'Another Brick in the Wall'.
Also the approach to filming on the London tube train and on the station platform, was one of the first British music videos that actually filmed in this environment.