Howard Jones‘ third album One to One will be reissued across three physical formats in January next year.
The 1986 album saw Howard Jones use the services of legendary producer Arif Mardin but as with contemporaries like Paul Young and Nik Kershaw three was not the magic number and commercially One to One represented something of a downturn in fortunes, with no top 30 hits AT ALL in the UK although ‘You Know I Love You…Don’t You’ did reach number 17 on the Billboard Hot 100 in America. Indeed, in the USA Howard Jones continued to have hits from One to One follow-up Cross That Line, but in Britain, the situation would never recover and the golden years were over almost as soon as they’d begun.
In terms of the 3CD+DVD set, disc one features the remastered album expanded with five extra tracks (the Phil Collins/Hugh Padgham version of ‘No One Is To Blame’ was on the original CD) while the second disc features a selection of extended versions, early mixes and live cuts, including five previously unreleased tracks.
ALL of CD 3 is previously unreleased, and this disc offers more ‘ruff cuts’ and about half the disc is instrumentals or instrumental demos. The package is finished off with a DVD (NTSC, region free) of TV appearances and promo videos. This comes with a 16-page booklet with a track-by-track annotation of One to One by Howard Jones (as told to writer Anil Prasad).
Pre-order the 3CD + DVD set here.
