HERE ARE SOME LINKS TO REVIEWS AND INFO ON JOHN:

GET READY FOR JOHN'S BRAND NEW ALBUM: In January 2008, Hanky Panky Records will be releasing John's new album, 'Barefoot With Angels'. Comprising 12 new Howard originals, this is John's first album recorded entirely in his home studio. Says John, "it was great having the freedom this time to record a track whenever I wanted to, or felt inspired. To try out a vocal overdub or backing harmony, a keyboard arrangement, day or night, rather than having to fit it in with whenever an outside studio was available. It reminded me of when I was in my early teens and I used to have fun recording stuff on my (long gone) multi-track tape recorder. Like back then, I felt a great sense of liberty which encouraged creativity to the full."
Check John's My Space page for further details, www.myspace.com/kidinabigworld where you can hear a track from Barefoot With Angels.

JOHN'S NEW iTUNES EXCLUSIVE RELEASES: Click on the following link to find John on iTunes .. where as well as all his albums currently on release, you will also find three new E.P.s John has made exclusively available to iTunes. The E.P.'s are:
The Bewlay Brothers
My Beautiful Days
Walk On The Wild Side
And now up on iTunes is his brand new Live album, In The Room Upstairs, recorded at The Briton's Protection in Manchester. This is an iTunes exclusive release.

FOUR STAR REVIEW OF 'SAME BED, DIFFERENT DREAMS' BY HELEN WRIGHT ON THE MUSICOMH SITE. Click on the following link to read the review: www.musicomh.com/albums/john-howard-6_0207.htm

SNAZ MUSIC FOUR STAR REVIEW OF 'SAME BED, DIFFERENT DREAMS': Click on the following link to read it: www.snazmusic.com/home/display1new.asp?cat=Review&displayid=280

'SAME BED, DIFFERENT DREAMS' GETS AN INTERNATIONAL RELEASE: Cargo Records are releasing the album, following its release in France in May 2006, in early 2007. Here is the link to the album on Cargo's website:
www.cargorecords.co.uk/release_zoom.php?item=3659

REVIEW JUST UP ON THE ALL MUSIC GUIDE SITE FOR 'AS I WAS SAYING':
www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:pe6ibk09fak0

JOHN HOWARD PODCAST: Cherry Red Records-sponsored Podcast, where John talks about his recording career and plays some tracks from his albums. For the link to the podcast click on:
www.Podcastbrewery.com/podcasts/JohnHoward/Johnhoward.php

JOHN HOWARD ON I-TUNES: John's albums are now available on I-Tunes. Here are links to three of the albums on there, but you can also just go into I-Tunes and search for John Howard on the site
For The Dangerous Hours: phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?"id=169827001&s=143444
For Kid In A Big World: phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=41476598&s=143444
For Technicolour Biography: phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=41476226&s=143444

ANATOMY OF THE COMEBACK KID: an article about John, written by Robert Cochrane, is now up on the website CultureCatch.com. To read the article click on:
www.culturecatch.com/music/johnhoward

'SAME BED, DIFFERENT DREAMS' REVIEW: rateyourmusic.com/release/album/john-howard/same_bed__different_dreams/

JOHN ON MY SPACE: www.myspace.com/kidinabigworld

DICKON EDWARDS REVIEW OF 12 BAR GIG: dickonedwards.co.uk/diary/index.php/archive/to-the-12-bar-club-for-a-wonderful-concert

JOHN ON RADIO 4's MIDWEEK: www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/midweek.shtml
Click on 28th December 2005 in list of Previous Programmes to hear the programme online.

'AS I WAS SAYING REVIEW' on the Glam-ou-rama website: www.glam-ou-rama.co.uk/reviews_show.asp?id=283

MUSICOMH REVIEW OF 'AS I WAS SAYING' AND INTERVIEW WITH JOHN ABOUT THE ALBUM:
www.musicomh.com/albums5/john-howard-5_1005.htm
www.musicomh.com/interviews/john-howard_1005.htm

DUSTYGROOVE REVIEW OF 'AS I WAS SAYING': www.dustygroove.com and type in John Howard into the search engine.

CHERRY RED LINK TO 'AS I WAS SAYING': www.cherryred.co.uk/cherryred/artists/johnhoward.php

'THE DANGEROUS HOURS' REVIEW ON LUNA KAFE SITE: www.lunakafe.com/moon111/en111.php

'THE DANGEROUS HOURS' REVIEW ON THE 'RATE YOUR MUSIC' SITE: rateyourmusic.com/release/album/john-howard/the_dangerous_hours/

'THE DANGEROUS HOURS' REVIEW ON THE GLAM-OU-RAMA SITE: www.glam-ou-rama.co.uk/reviews_show.asp?id=268

REVIEWS OF JOHN'S GIG AT GLAM-OU-RAMA:
www.musicomh.com/gigs2/john-howard-3_0905.htm
www.channel4.com/music/gossip/blogarchive/blog200905.html

'KID IN A BIG WORLD' MENTIONED IN THE TEARS NEW ALBUM REVIEW: www.sfburning.com/the_tears.html

DEADLY NIGHTSHADE - JOHN HOWARD FANSITE LINK: www.geocities.com/jh_deadlynightshade/

'THE DANGEROUS HOURS' REVIEWED ON DISCUSSION SITE: http://ilx.p3r.net/thread.php?msgid=6189711

ALL MUSIC GUIDE REVIEW OF 'THE DANGEROUS HOURS': www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:pu5e8qcxbtc4~T00

'THE DANGEROUS HOURS' - THE GUARDIAN, MUSICOMH AND FREAK EMPORIUM REVIEWS:
www.guardian.co.uk/arts/fridayreview/story/0,,1512877,00.html
www.musicomh.com/albums4/john-howard-4.htm
www.freakemporium.com

ALL MUSIC GUIDE REVIEW OF 'CAN YOU HEAR ME OK?': www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=sql=10:mec8b5f4xsqj

THE GUARDIAN AND MUSICOMH REVIEWS OF JOHN'S SHOW AT THE JERMYN STREET THEATRE APRIL 1ST 2004:
For The Guardian Review: (click here
www.musicomh.com/gigs/john-howard-2.htm

SOME QUOTES FROM REVIEWS ON JOHN'S ALBUMS AND SHOWS:

"John Howard is on a roll...Same Bed, Different Dreams demonstrates that there were gems waiting in the queue...Punchin' Judy is an unforgettable song that makes an immediate impact...The Builder From Heaven is as camp as Julian & Sandy but it's also a musical delight...there's drama and breathtaking melodic beauty in 'Til Then...this is John Howard's best work to date. Not only is the material great, I love the sound on this album...he has a terrific rich voice...here it comes through with the warmth that reflects the man."
HELEN WRIGHT, MUSICOMH ****Review of 'Same Bed, Different Dreams'

"Same Bed is in many parts a wiser grandparent to Kid In A Big World, the themes are updated and seen through the eyes of a soul who has seen the years unwind through various twists and turns...It beggars the question why isn't all pop music this intelligent...On this very fine album there are 16 tracks that have their own agenda, they are sung by a man who has had a life and wants you to share in that world, are you ready for the challenge?"
TONY BARTOLO, SNAZ MUSIC ****Review of 'Same Bed, Different Dreams'

"The remarkable thing about the album is how it completes strands left hanging from his '70s work...this is luxurious songwriterly pop...Howard's writing is as strong as it was in the '70s, clever in his lyrics and graceful in his melodies...these qualities make As I Was Saying quite a lovely comeback...his sweet melodicism has not diminished over time...it's a quiet, understated gem of a comeback, sure to please those who fell in love with him whether in 1973 or 2003"
STEPHEN THOMAS ERLEWINE, ALL MUSIC GUIDE Review of 'As I Was Saying'

"In keeping to the essentials (piano, voice and some very beautiful string arrangements) Howard is very worthy of his legend. John is still so skilful at composing rococo parts in which he sets Harry Nilsson-like sentimental ballads. This powerful and graceful come-back should find a strong echo among the nostalgic admirers of soft rock and the fans of Ben Folds."
MATTHIEU GRUNFELD, MAGIC Review of 'Same Bed, Different Dreams'

"Unbridled and awe-inspiring come-back of a glam-rock survivor. A genuine hidden treasure of eccentric pop, of a time when Bowie still haunted the cabarets and Elton John preferred writing to shopping."
CELINE REMY, LES INROCKS Review of 'Same Bed, Different Dreams'

"Howard's pen is still very firm here, and his bitten performance of the lyrics brings out the subtle drama of his tunes."
DUSTY GROOVE Review of 'Same Bed, Different Dreams'

"This purified production fits him very well and gives the work a timeless feature...the voice extraordinarily intact. The baroque taste and rare elegance of these 16 ballads (the shuddering 'Sacred Heart') recall a certain Jimmy Webb. 24 carat pop; pure gold."
PINKUSHION.COM Review of 'Same Bed, Different Dreams'

"Same Bed, Different Dreams contains without a doubt John Howard's most serene and captivating music to date...fourteen tracks that defy belief just how talented, gifted and appealing this man is. 'Til Then' is not only the greatest melody and song that John Howard has ever written in that inconceivably neglected career of his, it is one of THE greatest melodies and songs EVER written...a big word I know, genius."
MOJOJEFFERSON, RATE YOUR MUSIC ***** Review of 'Same Bed, Different Dreams'

"Piano man and lubricious lyricist Howard...retains his flamboyance, though glam tropes are replaced by wiser, sadder musings on mortality...he's a British Jimmy Webb...flicking out filigreed wordplay on nearly every line...A Kind Of Aching and Dear Glitterheart are the love children of Hunky Dory and Uptown, Uptempo Woman."
CHRIS ROBERTS, UNCUT Review of 'As I Was Saying'

"This is a funny, nostalgic album that never dares to surrender to Howard's advancing years...The Dilemma of The Homosapien manages to think hippy big and still sound ingenuous, the panoramic Oh Do Give It A Rest, Love is a rambling epic of name-dropping and pop culture humour that must be Howard's homage to Dylan's Desolation Row. 'I am young in my heart' he reiterates on The Time of Day and despite how many may think it, John Howard is one of a select few who could get away with actually saying it."
JAN ZAREBSKI, RECORD COLLECTOR Review of 'As I Was Saying'

"His pristine velvet tones startlingly unfettered by the years...the writing (is) now laced with the kind of tragicomic poignancy and arch wisdom only decades in the sidleines can command....Oh, Do Give It A Rest, Love is the epic centrepiece...Dear Glitterheart and The Time of Day are heartbreaking classics of elegant balladeering in anyone's book."
DICKON EDWARDS, PLAN B MAGAZINE, Review of 'As I Was Saying'

"A return to greatness for British singer songwriter John Howard...John's lost none of his touch for a personal lyric...Howard's presentation recalls the approach of some of the bigger names of his generation."
DUSTY GROOVE AMERICA, Review of 'As I Was Saying'

"Those who have been following the musical rebirth of John Howard have a real treat in store...the lightness in touch in the witty lyrics that we have come to expect from this superlative singer-songwriter...this album has everything, not only are there great songs, the sound is the best of all his recordings...the voice is in peak condition - richer than in his youth but retaining all the character...thank goodness providence, Divine or otherwise, has given John Howard back to us."
HELEN WRIGHT, Musicomh review of 'As I Was Saying'

"Songs like The Time Of Day are so timeless they could have been written at any point in the last 40 years...Andre Barreau and Phil King providing the perfect compliment to Howard's peerless lyrics and melodies...it won't be that long before he's the name on the lips of music lovers everywhere. Release Of The Month."
FREAK EMPORIUM Review of 'As I Was Saying'

"Wisely eschewing the more excessive aspects of glam couture he looks elegant as ever...opening number Dear Glitterheart really says it all. It's a great song...Guess Who's Coming To Dinner, still a delight...Such A Drag from The Dangerous Hours is a perfect choice for Glam-ou-rama...a couple of new songs follow, on forthcoming album As I Was Saying, The Time of Day sums up what most of us who were sentient beings in 1973 would hope to echo...how good to see that today's glam Goths still appreciate the real thing when they hear it."
HELEN WRIGHT, Musicomh Review of John's gig at Glam-ou-rama

"Poised to make a comeback, The Dangerous Hours is his point of re-entry...Howard puts this record right in line with his 70s classics...his distinctive tunesmithery is perfectly intact...lush melodies, arch wordplay and his appealing voice, still supple after 30 years...Howard gives tunes as dark as Silent Madness, camp as What A Carry On and celebratory as Dear Glitterheart a winning immediacy...lovers of classy, literary pop will find The Dangerous Hours a delightful way to spend the time."
MICHAEL TOLAND, High Bias Review of 'The Dangerous Hours'

"The John Howard revival continues with another remarkable unreleased album...the gorgeous title track feels like you are eavesdropping on private conversation...his soaring falsetto is glorious on the Bee Gees-ish I Can Breathe Again...Don't Shine Your Light is classic '70s soul-pop".
STEVE RIPPON, RECORD COLLECTOR ****Review of 'Can You Hear Me OK?'

"Can You Hear Me OK? is a delight....Finally Adored has a sweeping grandeur that won't fail to win you over...Hands down, the album of the month."
WOMAN & HOME Review of 'Can You Hear Me OK?'

"John Howard constitutes one of the most remarkable comebacks in pop history...big, sweeping cinematic choruses, lush, sighing melodies, music that is at once dramatic and intimate...a perfect soundtrack for either late introspection or a contemplative Sunday morning...it proves that his skills as a craftsman are untarnished after all these years."
STEPHEN THOMAS ERLEWINE, ALL MUSIC GUIDE ****Review of 'The Dangerous Hours'

"Miraculously, his new album indicates any intervening sabbatical was a vapour trail...all Howard's musical gifts are intact...as Howard says, 'My past has given me a future'"
MAX BELL, UNCUT ****Review of 'The Dangerous Hours'

"Thirty years on, he still sounds astonishing - a man making up for lost time with enviable panache...the intervening decades have done nothing to blunt the edge on Howard's songs"
ALEXIS PETRIDIS, THE GUARDIAN **** Friday Review of 'The Dangerous Hours'

"Oh what a treat...Howard and Cochrane seem to be writing the soundtrack to our lives. If you don't recognise it, you're either lucky or oblivious"
HELEN WRIGHT, MUSICOMH Review of 'The Dangerous Hours'

"Howard's voice is as beguiling and commanding as it ever was and the melodic flair present on Kid and Technicolour Biography is just as exquisite if not more so...if Noel Coward had ever heard Hunky Dory or if Todd Rundgren had ever seen La Cage Aux Folles, then this would be the result. Release of the month."
FREAK EMPORIUM, Review of 'The Dangerous Hours'

"It's terrific - all end-of-the-affair gloom, undercut by effete pragmatism...Howard's end? Hardly."
MAX BELL, UNCUT ****Review of 'Can You Hear Me OK?'

"An immensely gifted pop craftsman, and the fact that he could streamline his work so successfully on this album is just further testament to that...retaining his exceptional sense of songcraft and very British sense of theatricality...anybody who found Kid In A Big World an enchanting listen will likely love this as well."
STEPHEN THOMAS ERLEWINE, ALL MUSIC GUIDE ****1/2 Review of 'Can You Hear Me OK?'

"Another slice of classic '70s lushness...the four bonus tracks are quite extraordinary and have to be heard...his falsetto is sensational"
MUSICOMH Review of 'Can You Hear Me OK?'

"A sweet collection of 70s soft rock...produced by Biddu with some really nice sprawling touches!"
DUSTY GROOVE AMERICA Review of 'Can You Hear Me OK?'

"Kid In A Big World wasn't all Howard had in his locker, as this epic piano and vocal disc shows"
MAX BELL, UNCUT ****Review of 'Technicolour Biography'

"Kid In A Big World is a magnificent collection of rococo balladry and florid vignettes from a singer-songwriter who might have rivalled Elton or Bowie..."
PAUL LESTER, UNCUT *****

"Kid In A Big World...the incredible lost album"
THE GUARDIAN *****

"Stripped of band and orchestrations, the writing shines through. Howard's thrilling voice soars on the Nilsson-like Hall of Mirrors"
STEVE RIPPON, RECORD COLLECTOR ****Review of 'Technicolour Biography'

"This is excellent song-oriented Brit-pop that was overwhelmed by disco. RPM has done a great service in preserving this superb album"
TOM SHULTE, OUTSIGHT ****Review of 'Kid In A Big World'

"A lost glam era gem...a fascinating album and story both, this is definitely worth hearing for fans of classic singer-songwriter material"
MOHAIR SWEETS, Review of 'Kid In A Big World'

"The combination of pop melodies with finely wrought lyricism and occasional theatricalism...oddly sad, knowing, observational pieces"
RICHIE UNTERBERGER, All Music Guide, ****1/2 Review of 'Kid In A Big World'

"The songs sound huge, a testament to the talents of this remarkable and unique songwriter pitched somewhere between Bowie, Elton John, Harry Nilsson and Brian Wilson."
FREAK EMPORIUM Review of 'Technicolour Biography'

"Such is the nature and strength of Mr Howard's writing and performance that this album sounds less like an unfinished masterpiece and more like a weird, quixotic and exotic entity in its own right"
ANTHONY REYNOLDS, Musicomh, Review of 'Technicolour Biography'

"Howard's songs on the album are really wonderful - more mature than on the first set. A wonderful lost relic."
DUSTY GROOVE, CHICAGO, Review of 'Technicolour Biography'

"The excellent production creates a wonderfully full sound laden with rich atmospheres...Howard should have been a star, instead he barely had 15 seconds of fame. That now seems about to change, and not a moment too soon"
JO-ANN GREENE, ALL MUSIC GUIDE, ****1/2 Review of 'Technicolour Biography'

"Kid In A Big World was no fluke"
RECORD COLLECTOR ****

"Way beyond fashion yet uncommonly chic"
MAX BELL, UNCUT ****Review of 'Technicolour Biography'

"It's as if the last three decades just fell away...no one can quite believe their ears"
THE GUARDIAN *****review of John's Jermyn Street Theatre show April 1st 2004

"Wonderful. Exquisite as charged, the voice still chardonnay albeit aged in oak...a class act"
ANTHONY REYNOLDS' Musicomh review of the Jermyn Street Theatre show

"The audience is spellbound"
MUSICOMH, Review of John's show at Cecil Sharp House, August 2004

"This is a wonderful little gem...an unmissable pearl from a wonderful singer-songwriter"
Amazon.co.uk *****review of 'Kid In A Big World'

"A voice that sounds like the perfect cross between early Bowie & Elton John playing Rufus Wainwright"
K.H. Orton, Amazon.com *****review of 'Technicolour Biography'

"A great batch of Beatles-inspired pop graced with some incredible production touches"
DUSTY GROOVE, AMERICA, Review of 'Kid In A Big World'

"Small Town, Big Adventure...Suede's entire career in three minutes"
DAVID PESCHEK, THE GUARDIAN *****

"One of the greatest hidden albums of pop combining David Bowie, Lewis Carroll, Syd Barrett, Jarvis Cocker; eccentric dandy John Howard deserves an ovation"
STANDARD MAGAZINE, PARIS, Review of 'Kid In A Big World'

"The album is a mix of easy-lounge with glam post Bowie-esque/Bolan feel, Guess Who's Coming To Dinner is brilliant"
JEAN-EMMANUEL DELUXE, EURO-VISIONS, FRANCE, Review of 'Kid In A Big World'

"With Goodbye Suzie, John Howard found common ground between Billy Joel and modern Broadway"
MIKE BREEN, CITYBEAT "A RATED"

"John's music is a glorious reminder of a time when pop music was extravagantly effeminate"
DAVID PESCHEK, THE GUARDIAN *****

"A truly delightful evening of songs lost and found, old and new"
HELEN WRIGHT, Musicomh, Review of John's show at Cecil Sharp House, August 26th 2004

"Get him back in the studio."
STEVE RIPPON, RECORD COLLECTOR ****

"Kid In A Big World, a 1974 work of genius"
MAX BELL, UNCUT ****

"What a discovery!"
PAUL LESTER, UNCUT *****