5 M ARCH 1984
Howard Jones had already enjoyed three major hits by the time his debut LP landed in March 1984. It was no surprise then that Human’s Lib shot straight to No.1, so eager were audiences to get their hands on a complete album from the Southampton-born synth-popper. Thirty-seven years on, despite its massive commercial success (it spent a total of 57 weeks in the charts and has been certified double platinum by the BPI) and the fact that four of its singles – New Song, What Is Love?, Hide And Seek and Pearl In The Shell – went Top 20, it’s a puzzle why it’s not talked about in the same exalted manner as some of the other synth-pop classics of the era such as Dare or Architecture & Morality.
On its release in 1984, however, Human’s Lib received rave reviews, with Neil Tennant writing in Smash Hits that Jones had “a neat talent for writing melodic pop songs with clever hooks and real 1970s singer-songwriter lyrics,” going on to call the album “a must for all Supertramp fans.”
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