What Is Love? (Howard Jones song)
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| Single by Howard Jones | ||||
| from the album Human's Lib | ||||
| B-side | "It Just Doesn't Matter" | |||
| Released | 18 November 1983 | |||
| Studio | Farmyard (Little Chalfont, Buckinghamshire) | |||
| Genre | Synth-pop | |||
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| Label | WEA | |||
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| Producer | Rupert Hine | |||
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| "What Is Love?" on YouTube | ||||
"What Is Love?" is a song by the English synth-pop musician Howard Jones, released on 18 November 1983 by WEA Records as the second single from his debut studio album, Human's Lib (1984). It reached number 2 on the UK singles chart, becoming Jones' highest chart placing to date. In the US, it peaked at number 33 on the Billboard Hot 100.
The song was originally entitled "Love?" on the demo tape which Howard Jones recorded in 1982, which itself was available at his gigs. Jones also used the question mark motif around this time on posters advertising his gigs; posters which also hung behind him on stage at his early 1980s Marquee Club appearances and which read simply "Howard Jones?".