About Stephen Betts
Stephen Betts was a British keyboardist.
Steve Betts, also known as Stephen F. X. Betts and L. Howard Hughes, is a British songwriter and session musician. He formed new wave band The Books, which released three singles and an album, Expertise on Logo Records in 1980. Subsequently, he was the keyboardist for the band the Associates. He also co-wrote and co-produced Peter Murphy's first solo album Should the World Fail to Fall Apart, and in the mid-1980s he formed Howard Hughes and the Western Approaches, releasing four singles on the Abstract and EG record labels.
His works have been selected for the 60x60 project in 2004, 2005, and 2006.
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