Benjamin John "Ben" Howard (born 24 April 1987) is an English singer-songwriter. He self-released his debut EP Games in the Dark (2008) followed by two more EPs, These Waters (2009) and Old Pine (2010). He is currently signed to Island and Communion. His major debut studio album came in 2011 titled Every Kingdom followed by two more EP releases, Ben Howard Live (2011) and The Burgh Island E.P. (2012).
At the 2013 Brit Awards he received the Brit Award for British Male Solo Artist. He performed at 2013 Glastonbury festival on the Pyramid Stage on Saturday 29 June. He released his second studio album, I Forget Where We Were, in October 2014.
He was born in Middlesex,London in 1987 and moved near Totnes, Devon when he was about eight. He was raised by musical parents who exposed him to their favourite records from singer-songwriter artists from the 1960s and 1970s at an early age, such as John Martyn, Van Morrison, Joni Mitchell and Simon & Garfunkel, by whom he was strongly influenced.
Ben Howard (born 7 February 1993, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England) is a British rugby union football player, playing for Worcester Warriors in the RFU Championship. He is a full back or winger and has represented England at Under-20 level. Howard joined Worcester aged 18, and made his Premiership debut against Leicester Tigers at Welford Road in September 2012. He scored two tries on his European debut against Gernika RT in the Amlin Challenge Cup. Howard was in the England Under-20 side that won the Six Nations Championship in 2013, and went on to defeat Wales in the Junior World Cup Final in France in June 2013.
He signed a new contract for Worcester in February 2012.
Benjamin Odell Howard (February 4, 1904 – December 4, 1970), was an aviator and aeronautical engineer from the United States, whose aircraft won the Bendix Trophy and the Thompson Trophy in 1935.
At 17 Howard's interest in flying was sparked when he saw a band of gypsy fliers performing in their flying circus. By 18 he had saved up enough cash to buy an OX-5 powered Standard biplane. In those days learning how to fly was often self-taught and Howard thought he was up to it. The Standard was a safe plane and he seemed to be learning fine when while flying was unable to pull out of a spin, crashed breaking his leg and writing off the plane, as well.
It took a long time to set his leg but at age 19, Howard moved to Dallas and started working in the Curtiss Aircraft factory. The pay was not as good as what others jobs paid but what he learned about design and construction of aircraft was worth more than money. Over the next few years he tinkered with aircraft design using spare parts to build his first plane, at the request of a Houston bootlegger, who dubbed the resulting "rum-runner" a "Darned Good Airplane," DGA-1 giving it and future Howard aircraft their trademarked initials of DGA. Howard later in life admitted to doing some airborne bootlegging himself during prohibition.
Oh you
Screamed Hallelujah darling,
startled all the sleeping Starlins on the wire.
As we walked up the footpath through the fields,
how the rain did reveal your heart.
And the rope swing from the balance held the weight,
shadows fall and a cold wind blows.
And you said oh maybe we're just lost souls here,
maybe oh everybody goes.
Oh we were
Young oh ho we were young. Oh we were
Young oh ho we were young.
Still don't, don't you forget.
That rope you tied around your neck.
Don't free you darling, oh oh ho oh ho oh
Don't free you darling, oh oh ho oh ho oh
And it took them three days to find you,
tired torch lights and dog scents.
Oh they led you down from the highest branches,
cold eyes and frozen arms.
And my my my your beauty was so dumbfounded,
lace white dress and your hair as long as Follaton Woods.
And the whole town just stood there crying looking at the darkness,
for something wholesome and good.
Oh good, oh ho oh oh.
Oh good, oh ho oh oh.
Still don't, don't you forget.
That rope you tied around your neck.
Don't free you darling, oh oh ho oh ho oh
Don't free you darling, oh oh ho oh ho oh
Hums
Morning white mist came across the plane,
blue skies and rain.
Oh and it was the strangest day,
people taking cover people holding shame.
Oh you'd left your
Heart oh ho oh ho oh. Oh you'd left your
Heart oh ho oh ho oh. Oh you'd left your
Heart oh ho oh ho oh. Oh you'd left your
Heart oh ho oh ho oh. Oh you'd left your
Heart oh.