I was astonished when Fisher King told me they wanted to publish it. It was intended as an online chapter-by-chapter series of events in my life up to my accident, when I broke my back, in 1976. John Howard: To be honest, I didn’t know there’d be a second volume when I wrote the first one, Incidents Crowded With Life. How have you found writing the books? Has it been cathartic? What have you learnt from the process? There’s a third and final instalment planned in the not-too-distant future. So the fact that I’m still recording without all those ‘trappings of success’ is a very nice surprise.”ĭuring the summer, you published the second volume of your autobiography, lllusions of Happiness, which goes up to 1986. “I thought I’d be selling millions of albums and doing concerts at The Carnegie Hall, playing at huge stadia around the world, packed with thousands of fans and headlining at massive festivals. I was very ambitious,” he tells Say It With Garage Flowers. “The only thing I envisaged in my twenties was becoming a gigantic star! It was what drove me from my first gigs when I was 17. His debut album, Kid In A Big World, featuring the single Goodbye Suzie, was recorded at Abbey Road and Apple studios in 1974 and came out the following year. Howard, who is 67, grew up in Lancashire and trained as a classical pianist from the age of seven – he started playing when he was four. To The Left of The Moon’s Reflection was written and recorded in his home studio – he lives in a 100-year old cottage in the Murcia region of southern Spain – during the winter of 2019 and spring 2020. Howard sings lead and backing vocals and plays all the instruments. The new record – his seventeenth – is a collection of wistful, reflective and pastoral, piano-led ballads, chamber pop and folk songs, with sparse percussion and layered, atmospheric arrangements and harmonies. He’s published the second instalment of his autobiography, Illusions of Happiness, and released his latest album, the brilliant To The Left of The Moon’s Reflection. It’s been a busy year for English singer-songwriter and pianist, John Howard.
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