Ken Howard (composer)
| Ken Howard | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Kenneth Charles Howard |
| Born |
26 December 1939 Worthing, West Sussex, England |
| Genres | Pop music, classical music, film score |
| Occupation(s) | Songwriter, lyricist, author, television director |
| Years active | 1960s-present |
| Website | www |
Kenneth Charles "Ken" Howard (born 26 December 1939,) is an English songwriter, lyricist, author and television director.
Howard was born in Worthing, West Sussex. From 1947 to 1957 he attended University College School (UCS) in London, where he became friends with Alan Blaikley, and from 1956 to 1957 he attended Aiglon College in Villars, Switzerland. After a year working with Granada Television in London, he went to Edinburgh University reading Social Anthropology. Cast vocally together with fellow London student Eva Hermann in Varsity Vanities of 1959, they became popular as the vocal duo "Eva and Ken", winning a weekly slot in STV's musical show Jigtime, singing songs from around the world, and recording for Fontana Records. Howard graduated with an MA degree and began working with BBC Television's drama department in White City.
He also joined forces with two old UCS friends, Alan Blaikley and Paul Overy, with whom, between 1962 and 1963, he ran and edited four issues of a magazine, Axle Quarterly, publishing early work by Melvyn Bragg, Ray Gosling, Alexis Lykiard, Gillian Freeman and Simon Raven amongst others. An offshoot of the Quarterly was a series of five booklets on controversial topics commissioned by Blaikley, Howard and Overy, named Axle Spokes (Axle Publications 1963). These included Peter Graham's The Abortive Renaissance, a critical examination of British New Wave cinema; John Gale's Sex - Is it easy?, the emergence of the permissive society; Gavin Millar's Pop! - Hit or miss?, the British hit-parade in the early days of the Beatles; Anthony Rowley's Another Kind of Loving, homosexuality in the years when it was still a criminal offence in the UK; and Melville Hardiment's Hooked, an enquiry into the extent and nature of drug addiction in the early 1960s.
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