About this episode

Howard Jones discusses his experiences in Canada and his music career.

British 80s SynthPop superstar Howard Jones talks about immigrating to Canada not once but TWICE, his time at Ottawa’s late great Confederation High School, watching The Who smash their instruments during a show at Lansdowne Stadium, refurbishing his original Roland Jupiter-8 keyboard to create new music, performance memories with OMD Barenaked Ladies China Crisis Stevie Wonder Herbie Hancock Thomas Dolby Ringo Starr Sheila E , his 1985 Live Aid piano solo in front of 100,000 fans at Wembley Stadium, and gearing up for his upcoming Toronto tour stop with Wang Chung The English Beat and Modern English! For everything HoJo including his August 23rd show in Toronto and his upcoming new album, please visit http://www.howardjones.com/ TORONTO LEGENDS is hosted by Andrew Applebaum at andrew.applebaum@gmail.com All episodes available at https://www.torontolegends.ca/episodes/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People in this episode

Host: Andrew Applebaum

Guest: Howard Jones

Topics covered

• music
• Canada
• 80s pop
• performance
• tour
• synthesizers

Keywords

• Howard Jones
• Canada
• Live Aid
• synthesizers
• Toronto tour
• 80s music
• performance

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: OMD, Barenaked Ladies, China Crisis, Wang Chung, The English Beat, Modern English

Places: Wembley Stadium, Toronto

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