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24 hours ago

SOUL BELIEVER VIDEO - OUT NOW 🕺🪩💃

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What a fantastic opportunity to see you on Friday performing live for the first time, and you all absolutely smashed it!

Waiting for the record.

YES!!!!!!!

Love this 🙂

Alvaro Costa!!! Recomendado!!!

Retro cool. Wow that gold jacket is a standout even in all the glitter! 💛 Good song with my fav part being the strong bridge that leads to the chorus.

It's pure genius 👌

Love it. Been playing it nonstop. Such a feel good song. Xx

I wish that wonderful video last longer, the song 🎶 has such a great vibe, pure musical dynamite and Clark, your complicity with Jaki is so obvious and beautiful to see!❤️🎶🎶🎶

Love love love from my 80s favourite people!!×

Brillant

Share share shareeee! Request it on local and national stations! The movement is building!!

Such a great new song!

Great video & song, guys! 🤩🎶🎵❤️

♥♥

Great!

www.facebook.com/share/g/1DkAJVndzp/?mibextid=wwXIfr Join us on the dedicated ‘Johnny hates jazz Massive’ for fun fan chat, video and pics

youtu.be/v7opTMXzLjY This is based off the arrangement of the music. That female voice reminded me of the smooth jazz radio station we listened on the way home from school, when father picked us up. That female twinkle was so late 80's like, that I thought I would reflect it with the radio stations and deejays of that year and the year before (the record seems to indicate that the album was at least started in '87.) To me, that brings back my memories in the best way. All images were researched 1988 and '87, the years of the song and/or its album. Please note that search engines can be inaccurate and images can be mistagged with the wrong year. Images used were in the order of the search results. I don’t like to discriminate; I prefer this “mixed bag” approach.

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Johnny Hates Jazz is in England.

2 days ago

Soul Believer (feat. Jaki Graham) live from Banquet Records, Kingston, UK ✨

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xx🥰🥰😊😇 A trip back to the 70s. Clark's outfit is amazing. Wide-legged trousers. It's totally the 70s. Thank you for this beautiful song and lyrics. You have a unique voice. I loved this song. Take good care of yourself. Sending you positive energy. Love and respect.xxxx✨✨⭐️💫💫🌍🌍🎹❤️❤️☮️

Love it 😀 😍

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Great evening loved all the old hits as well as this new song

This is like an REM gig - that’s me in the corner!

Love it ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐💎 just my humble opinion it sounds a little over produced live I bet it’s brilliant

Awesome!!! See y’all on October 29th!!!! Yeah!!!!!

Awesome!❤️ I love this song…I’ve just watched the video & it’s so stunning & retro looking! Just ACE🎶🎵🎤 I love the way you’ve incorporated so many stand-out Soul Classics, in the lyrics🌟💗xxx

Amazing evening. Love you guys and to see Jaki love her. Beautiful lady 💕💕💕

Great show last night. I was there

Jaki fabulosa como siempre!

Guapos y elegantes como siempre

♥♥

I love jaki graham

Wonderful to see the band 40+ years after hearing them on my record player 👍

Collette Carmen

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Johnny Hates Jazz

3 days ago

Are you still a Soul Believer? 🪩

Johnny Hates Jazz and Jaki Graham have joined forces to bring you their latest single 'Soul Believer'

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I've listened both versions and watched the video of your new brilliant release while heading to my workplace this morning. I had to make a huge effort not to dance and sing out loud because this is the just the best feel good song I've heard since a very long while and I had fun recognizing the different titles of the songs in the lyrics. That groovy, funky, irresistible music style put me in a pure state of joy and I need that in my life. Thank you JHJ! 🙏 🎶🎶🎶💖

This song is great! Keep on doing songs like this!

Good music, best times! J.H.J., always have a great vision of music....

Yeah man course I am!!!!

The 12 inch arrived in the post this morning! 😁💕

Love it x

Brilliant song & video! Happy Release Day!

Great song. Love it. Hoping get the vinyl soon.

Fantastic night at Circuit tonight. Took my 16 year old with me, he loved it!

Tremendous show tonight, loved it all. Jaki Graham, fab!

Klinkt goed! 👍

Loving it! ❤️❤️🫶🫶

Great song by my favourite artists from the 80s!!××

Received my vinyl this morning,super.

💯 love this song

💕💕💕🎵🎵🎵💫

♥♥♥

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨🍾🏆🎹🎹🎤🎧🎼📀🎁❤️❤️☮️

Love this song!

Where do i start WOW another Belter ! You guys just keep Delivering , taking us back to 80s feeling , well done 👏 👏👏

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

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Johnny Hates Jazz

3 days ago

Words fail to express how proud we are of “Soul Believer” and to have collaborated with the iconic Jaki Graham 🪩 We hope you enjoy it as much as we did creating it.

For those we see at Circuit, Kingston tonight; let’s have a celebration 🎉 for those we don’t; see you down the road to welcome in the new era of Johnny Hates Jazz ✨

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It’s great to see you all back for 2026 - I love the song 🎵

LOVE IT 🥰

Congratulation!!!!

Go Johnny Hates Jazz! You had it in the it the 80s, still got it 2026!!! 😎

Amazing song

Good luck guys. The song is very catchy...It's stuck in my head 🎶🎶🎶💖

Brilliant evening in Kingston 🎶❤️🎶

Great Clark ,fantastic johnny!+!@@

I played the song today and it's awesome. You definitely need to come and do a show in the hall for Cornwall in Truro!

Fantastic song, JHJ! So great to hear a new banger from you.

I just uploaded it on ITunes

What a great night in circuit loved it ❤️

Happy gig and release day!!!! Whooohoooooooo!!!!!! #SoulBeliever!

Great Song and a welcome change to the dross that pervades the airwaves these days. Good Luck with it JHJ 👏🏻

Love you guys. And Jaki. Aww beautiful lady. Love you so much. Thank you for a wonderful evening. ❤️❤️❤️

Can't wait to see you at Circuit 🤩

Absolutely brilliant and genius song. Can't wait to celebrate later 🎉

Absolutely fabulous song! 🎵 I’m very excited to listen to new music ❤️🎶❤️ Please come to Toronto; we would love to have you here 🇨🇦

Fantastic song! Absolutely loving it. All the best for the launch tonight and for this new chapter. Enjoy!! ❤️❤️🍾🥂🎶🎸🎹🎷🥁🎧🎤

Congrats. Amazing sound. Have fun tonight everyone❤️❤️❤️

As well you should be! Congratulations! The song is summery joy personified. Great to see all band members looking radiant in such a fun video. So excited to see this performed live later! Methinks there may be a standing ovation!

I have listen it. On Spotify. It’s fantastic beautiful. Will it be on the charts heritage?

So good!

Absolutely loving this. What an amazing collaboration with Jaki Graham . Wishing everyone the greatest success with it.

Johnny Hates Jazz SOUL BELIEVER is a great song, in short and extended version. Excellent work !!! I love Jaki Graham... wonderful voice.

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Johnny Hates Jazz is at All Over the World.

4 days ago

Soul Believer feat. @jakigrahamofficial OUT NOW 🪩

Written by Clark Datchler and Hamish Stuart
Produced by Mike Nocito
Mixed by Dave Bascombe for Echo Beach Management Mastered by Tony Cousins at Metropolis Studios, London
Released on @revolverrecordsuk

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Will there be any merchandise at the Kingston gig, plus any opportunities for meet and greet after?

Great track and got the vinyl ! Support the artists buy physical copies!

Will this album be sold in the USA? I am in South Florida.

I love this ❤️

CDも出して欲しいです‼︎

Love it 👌❤️👏👏👏👏👏🙌

Great soongs jhj. Love em

It’s going to be wonderful day!😎🎶🎶🎶❤️👍

Love this .uplifting music at last ,🔥❤️

🎶🎶🎶💖

♥♥

I love this!💗

xxxx🥰🥰🥰🥰😘🌼⭐️🍾🏆📀🧿❤️☮️

😘🤩 xxx

This would have been good as the follow up to Heart of gold

I'm looking forward to the vinyl EP.

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Biography

Johnny Hates Jazz consists of Clark Datchler (songwriting, vocals, keyboards) and Mike Nocito (production, engineering, guitars). The band is best known for a cycle of hits in the late 1980s, the most successful being “Shattered Dreams”. Released in March 1987, it became a top 5 hit in the UK, throughout mainland Europe and Asia, and reached number 2 in Japan. This was followed by four other worldwide hits, being the anti-war anthem “I Don’t Want To Be A Hero”, “Turn Back The Clock” (featuring Kim Wilde on backing vocals), “Heart Of Gold” and “Don’t Say Its Love”. In 1988, “Shattered Dreams” reached number 2 on the US Billboard chart, number 1 on the US Adult Contemporary chart, and climbed to number 4 in Canada.

That same year, their album “Turn Back The Clock” entered the UK charts at number 1, selling over four million copies and going triple-platinum in the process. It is arguably one of the definitive albums of the 1980s and is one of only two debut albums released by Virgin Records to immediately go to the top of the charts upon its release (the other being by The Sex Pistols). Since then, “Shattered Dreams” has gone on to be played over 3.8 million times on US radio alone.

Johnny Hates Jazz parted ways at the height of their success, and were to be the last electronic band to emerge in the 1980’s. However, after many years of pursuing individual projects, Clark and Mike decided to reunite in 2010, resulting in the 2013 album “Magnetized”. Recorded at Real World Studios in Bath, UK and The Farm just outside Cambridge, UK, it re-established the band as musical force to be reckoned with. The title track was an instant radio hit in the UK and the album track “Release You”, which was never released as a single, has become one of their most-streamed songs.

In 2018, the band released a 30th Anniversary edition of “Turn Back The Clock”, which included brand new acoustic versions of every song on the album. In addition, Clark co-wrote many songs for the Mike and The Mechanics albums “Let Me Fly” and “Out Of The Blue” with Genesis legend Mike Rutherford.

Then in 2020, they released their most recent album “Wide Awake”. Over two years in the making, it saw Clark and Mike inspired by their musical roots growing up in the 1970’s. It is a mixture of soulful melodies, uplifting lyrics, and a positive energy that is present from start to finish, exemplified by the singles “Spirit Of Love”, “New Day Ahead” and “Greater Good”. The following year, they toured the UK as special guests of Level 42, and have since continued to perform at festivals around the world.

Now, for the first time in 36 years, Johnny Hates Jazz will be embarking on their first ever headline tour of the UK and overseas. With a brand-new show, surrounded by world-class musicians, they’re ready to captivate audiences across the globe!

Music Videos

Magnetized

New Day Ahead

Turn Back The Clock

Don't Say It's Love

Spirit Of Love

Heart Of Gold

I Don't Want To Be A Hero

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Discography

<h3>Albums</h3>

Turn Back The Clock	Virgin	1988
Tall Stories	Virgin	1991
Magnetized	InterAction Music	2013
Turn Back The Clock 30th Anniversary Edition	Dato Music	2018
Wide Awake	JHJ Music	2020

<h3>Compilations</h3>

The Very Best Of Johnny Hates Jazz	Virgin	1993
Johnny Hates Jazz ‎(CD \| Comp)	Disky	2000

<h3>Singles</h3>

Me And My Foolish Heart	RAK	1986
Shattered Dreams	Virgin	1987
I Dont Want To Be A Hero	Virgin	1987
Turn Back The Clock	Virgin	1987
Boy George - Johnny Hates Jazz - Keep Me In Mind - Shattered Dreams 7inch Jukebox	Virgin	1987
Pet Shop Boys - Johnny Hates Jazz - Its A Sin - Shattered Dreams 7inch Promo WLbl	DJ Club Mix	1987
Johnny Hates Jazz Feat. Bonnie Tyler - I Dont Want To Be A Hero 7inch Jukebox	Virgin	1987
Heart Of Gold Remix	Virgin	1988
Dont Say Its Love	Virgin	1988
Boy George - Johnny Hates Jazz - Live My Life - Turn Back The Clock 7inch Jukebox	Virgin	1988
Jermaine Stewart - Johnny Hates Jazz - Say It Again - Heart Of Gold 7inch Jukebox	Virgin	1988
Turn The Tide	Virgin	1989
The Last To Know	Virgin	1991
Let Me Change Your Mind Tonight	Virgin	1991
Magnetized - CD - Single - Promo	InterAction Music	2013
Lighthouse 3xFile - MP3 - Single - Germany only	InterAction Music	2014
Spirit Of Love	JHJ Music	2020
New Day Ahead	JHJ Music	2020
Greater Good	JHJ Music	2020
Soul Believer - JHJ featuring Jaki Graham	Revolver Records	2026

<span style=”color: #ffffff;”>For business inquiries, please email JHJ’s management at</span> <a href=”mailto:info@johnnyhatesjazz.com”>info@johnnyhatesjazz.com</a>