BRAND NEW SONG FROM SYNTH POP LEGEND HOWARD JONES

“STAND UP” HAS EXCLUSIVE

WORLDWIDE PREMIERE VIA BILLBOARD TODAY

“THINGS CAN ONLY GET BETTER” NORTH AMERICAN

PACKAGE TOUR CURATED AND HEADLINED BY JONES

KICKS OFF NEXT WEEK

BILL INCLUDES FELLOW BRITISH 80S GREATS

WANG CHUNG, THE ENGLISH BEAT, MODERN ENGLISH

AND HOSTED BY SIRIUSXM’S RICHARD BLADE

(New York, NY) – A brand new song from synth pop legend Howard Jones, “Stand Up,” has its exclusive worldwide premiere today via Billboard. The track is taken from Jones’ forthcoming album GLOBAL CITIZEN (due out in 2027) and is created on his newly-refurbished original Roland Jupiter-8 keyboard (the flagship synth of the early 80s). Of “Stand Up,” Howard Jones commented, “’Stand Up’ was born out of revisiting my original Jupiter-8 synthesizer which has just been repaired. I rediscovered how much I love its analogue sound. It’s my favorite synth and features on ‘What is Love?’, ‘New Song’, and ‘Things Can Only Get Better’. The key message of ‘Stand Up’ is that everyone is important and we must not let others shut our voices down…stand up and be counted.” Jones will perform the song for the first time in front of audiences on his “Things Can Only Get Better” package tour kicking off next week. “Stand Up” will be available for purchase beginning tomorrow here.

The “Things Can Only Get Better” North American tour is the feel-good 80s event of the summer. It features a bill curated and headlined by Jones himself with support from fellow British 80s greats Wang Chung, The English Beat and Modern English and will be hosted by SiriusXM’s Richard Blade. All four artists will perform full sets. Fans can expect to hear the biggest hits from the decade including “Things Can Only Get Better,” “What Is Love, “No One Is To Blame,” “Dance Hall Days,” “Everybody Have Fun Tonight,” “Save It For Later,” “I Confess” and “I Melt With You”. The tour kicks off in Napa, CA at Blue Note Napa Sessions on Sunday, July 19^th. Please see below for the complete itinerary. Click here to purchase tickets.

Electronic music pioneer Howard Jones has been a constant presence on the international touring scene for the past four decades, playing live in several different configurations including intimate solo shows and dates with his full high-tech band set-up. He first burst upon the contemporary music scene in 1983, with his very English songwriting and pioneering synthesizers with “New Song”. His first two albums HUMAN’S LIB and DREAM INTO ACTION were worldwide hits. HUMAN’S LIB reached #1 in 1984 in the UK and featured the hits “New Song,” and “What Is Love?” In 1985, Jones released the follow-up, DREAM INTO ACTION, which quickly became a Top Ten Platinum album in the United States and featured the smashes: “Things Can Only Get Better,” “Life In One Day,” “No One Is To Blame,” and “Like To Get To Know You Well.”

Howard Jones has sold upwards of 10 million albums worldwide and continues to make new music and tour the world. Jones has performed on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! As well as NBC’s top-rated morning and nighttime shows respectively, Today and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. His ubiquitous hits can be heard in such high-profile television series and films such as “Stranger Things,” “Breaking Bad,” “Watchmen,” “The Carrie Diaries”, “Superstore” and “Bumblebee.”