HOWARD JONES WORDS OF WISDOM, MOOS OF PEACE

HOWARD JONES WORDS OF WISDOM, MOOS OF PEACE

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J. Kordosh

Howard Jones doesn t like to do interviews. He believes eating meat is the last remaining barbarism in Western society. And that the universe is perfect. He gets upset with people who feel his lyrics are fluff. Plus, he doesn’t mind if you smoke.

In other words, an ideal sort of guy to spend some time with.

Perhaps you first saw Howard Jones on the Grammy Awards show, where he appeared onstage with Thomas Dolby, Stevie Wonder and Herbie Hancock in a glitzy synth display. Perhaps you became a fan with last year’s Human’s Lib album, or Jones’s one-man band tour, opening for the Eurythmics. Maybe you waited until this year’s Dream Into Action.

Or maybe you think he’s a total goofball and, in fact, stopped reading after that line about the universe being perfect. That would be a shame, of course, for then you’d miss out on Jones’s novel approach to life and living, which he II describe momentarily. So if you actually did stop reading, it’d probably be a good idea to get back into the story now.

Good.