"Casual music observers will perhaps be taken aback by how many of Howard's tunes they actually know, the multi-instrumentalist famously from High Wycombe having dented the UK top 20 with each of his first nine hit singles, as well as topping the album chart with his debut, and continuing with more modest chart success later on. What is perhaps more surprising however, is that while the eighties commercial brand is largely derided in general by all and sundry these days, Jones's body of work holds up remarkably well".