Howard Jones Like To Get To Know You Well UK Version - Howard Jones Like To Get To Know You Well UK Version

What this video is

Released in August 1984 at the height of the British synth-pop explosion, 'Like to Get to Know You Well' arrived as a standalone single between Howard Jones's debut album Human's Lib and his second album Dream into Action. The single reached number 4 on the UK chart and was explicitly dedicated to the spirit of the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympics — situating it within a broad cultural mood of optimism and…

Why it matters

A landmark mid-career single that crystallised Howard Jones's identity as the optimistic, humanist face of British synth-pop. Its chart success (UK #4) confirmed the commercial viability of uplifting, lyrically direct synthpop and its UK video established a template for location-documentary promo…

The director

Brian Simmons is a British director associated with early-1980s UK music video and concert film production. He is credited on IMDB as director of the Howard Jones 'Like to Get to Know You Well' 1984 concert/promo package (IMDB tt0488558), produced through…