Human's Lib

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Human's Lib
Howard Jones studio album

Publication
(s)

March 17, 1984 (UK),
June 12, 1984 (USA)

admission

1984

Label (s) WEA / Electra

Format (s)

CD, record

Genre (s)

Rock , pop , new wave

Title (number)

10 (11)

running time

42:58

production

Rupert Hine
Colin Thurston ("New Song")

chronology
- Human's Lib The 12 "album
(1984)

Human's Lib is the debut album by British pop musician Howard Jones . The album was released on March 17, 1984 in the UK and on June 12, 1984 in the USA . It went straight to number one on the UK album charts and spent a total of 57 weeks there. In the first week after its release, 100,000 copies were sold and there was twice platinum for over 600,000 units sold. The album was awarded gold in many European countries and was also a success in Japan and the USA.

Four songs from the album were released as singles and all reached the UK's Top 20: New Song Number Three, What Is Love? Second place , Hide and Seek place twelve and Pearl in the Shell place seven. New Song and What Is Love? also made it onto the American Billboard Hot 100 .

Equality was only released as a single in South Africa , as a commentary on apartheid politics .

Track list

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Human's Lib
  DE 8th 03/19/1984 (25 weeks)
  CH 12 03/25/1984 (12 weeks)
  UK 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 03/17/1984 (57 weeks)
  US 59 March 24, 1984 (43 weeks)
Singles
New song
  DE 19th January 16, 1984 (15 weeks)
  CH 15th 02/12/1984 (9 weeks)
  UK 3 09/03/1983 (20 weeks)
  US 27 01/21/1984 (15 weeks)
What is love?
  DE 6th 02/13/1984 (15 weeks)
  CH 24 03/18/1984 (5 weeks)
  UK 2 11/26/1983 (15 weeks)
  US 33 04/21/1984 (13 weeks)
Hide and Seek
  UK 12 02/18/1984 (12 weeks)
  DE 38 04/09/1984 (11 weeks)
Pearl in the Shell
  DE 60 07/09/1984 (4 weeks)
  UK 7th 05/26/1984 (12 weeks)

Howard Jones composed the music for all songs. The lyrics are in brackets next to the title.

  1. Conditioning - 4:32 (William Bryant)
  2. What is love? - 3:45 (Bryant / Jones)
  3. Pearl in the Shell - 4:03
  4. Hide and Seek - 5:34
  5. Hunt the Self - 3:42 (Bryant / Jones)
  6. New Song - 4:15
  7. Don't Always Look at the Rain - 4:13
  8. Equality - 4:26 (Bryant / Jones)
  9. Natural - 4:25 (Bryant)
  10. Human's Lib - 4:03 (Bryant)
  11. China Dance - 3:49 (bonus track on CD version)

Trivia

The songs New Song and What Is Love? were used in the movie " Supergirl - The Movie ".

Contributors

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Howard Jones Discography Albums. In: howardjones.com. Retrieved June 30, 2010 .
  2. ↑ Certified Awards Search. British Phonographic Industry , accessed September 14, 2014 .
  3. ^ Howard Jones> Charts & Awards> Billboard Singles. In: allmusic . Retrieved August 8, 2009 .
  4. ^ A b Howard Jones Discography - Singles. In: howardjones.com. Retrieved June 30, 2010 .
  5. ↑ Charts DE Charts CH Charts UK Charts US
  6. ↑ Human's Lib at Discogs