At The BBC

5CD box set encapsulating the very best of Howard Jones BBC Session and live concert performance broadcasts Featuring nine previously unreleased session tracks including What Can I Say? which is remastered from the original master tape for the very first time All the live performance tracks (bar eight from the Oxford Road Show) are previously unreleased, including three songs from this live performance that were not broadcast at the time and are previously unheard and unreleased: Like To Get To Know You Well, No One Is To Blame and Don't Always Look At The Rain/Things Can Only Get Better. Plus a 16-page CD booklet including a sleeve note by Anil Prasad in conversation with Howard reflecting on his 80s BBC Session and live recordings. Decades before YouTube and streaming, the biggest influence on British pop music fans was exposure to artists via the BBC. In the 80s, BBC Radio remained a primal force in establishing the relevance and momentum of musicians, including for Howard Jones, himself. In the period between 1983-87, the BBC broadcast four different sessions by Howard; two of these for the Kid Jensen Show and two for the Janice Long Show. This 5CD box set contains all 19 of these session tracks including the complete White Tape demo recordings that Howard gave to the BBC to broadcast as his second session in May of 1983. The box set also includes three In Concert live performances and the previously unheard complete Oxford Road Show performance that was simulcast on BBC

Tracks

1~1~Don't Put These Curses On Me
1~2~Natural
1~3~Human's Lib
1~4~Human's Lib
1~5~Love ?
1~6~Risk
1~7~Always Asking Questions
1~8~What Can I Say?
1~9~Things Can Only Get Better*
1~10~Look Mama
1~11~Dream Into Action
1~12~No One Is To Blame
1~13~The Balance Of Love
1~14~Conditioning
1~15~Little Bit Of Snow
1~16~Don't Want To Fight Anymore
1~17~Give Me Strength
1~18~Igy (What A Beautiful World)
1~19~New Song
1~20~Conditioning
1~21~Dreams Of A Better Place
1~22~What Is Love
1~23~Equality
1~24~Don't Always Look At Rain
1~25~Hunt The Self
1~26~Pearl In The Shell
1~27~Always Asking Questions
1~28~Don't Always Look At The Rain
1~29~Change The Man
1~30~Like To Get To Know You Well

Details

Format: CD
Artist: Howard Jones
Release Date: 26 November 2021
Genre: Pop
Label: Cherry Red
Distributor: Rocket Group