Cherry Red's ongoing Howard Jones reissue campaign hits its next marker on April 30, with an expanded CD/DVD and vinyl reissue planned for In the Running, Jones' fifth album and final release for a major label.

In the Running continued the artistic and commercial trends that had been a part of Jones' career since 1989's Cross That Line sold modestly outside of the U.S. Top 20 hit "Everlasting Love." With a new decade in full bloom, Jones consciously moved away from the densest electronics of his '80s work into more "organic" sounding soft-rock. Along for the ride were a host of killer session players and guest musicians, including producer Ross Cullum, keyboardist Ian Stanley and drummer Chris Hughes (all former Tears for Fears collaborators who'd also worked on Cross That Line); guitars by Midge Ure, Robbie McIntosh (Pretenders, Paul McCartney) and Neil Taylor (Tears for Fears, Robbie Williams); percussion by Big Country's Mark Brzezicki and even some arrangements by Clare Fischer, known for his orchestral charts through Prince's discography.

Unfortunately, In the Running failed to chart on either side of the Atlantic, with lead single "Lift Me Up" becoming only a modest Top 40 hit in America. A year later, he wrapped up his career with Elektra/WEA with a best-of that featured a newly-recorded cover of Donald Fagen's "I.G.Y."; from there, Jones founded his own label, Dtox, and began releasing music independently.

Cherry Red's expansion of In the Running casts considerable light on the album, offering 34 bonus tracks across three CDs. The original album is expanded with a host of B-sides (including "I.G.Y.") and an unreleased single edit of "One Last Try." Disc 2 includes an instrumental version of the record (with some TV mixes of extra tracks), while the third disc features a host of extremely rare and unreleased tracks from the In the Running era. This includes the Umberto Tozzi-penned "Other People Are Us" and its original B-side "Don't Be Part of It," released as a single in Italy in 1991; a cover of David Ackles' "Road to Cairo," issued on a tribute album to the Elektra label in 1990; and rare and unreleased remixes, including a new version of Jones' 1983 smash "What is Love?" that was prepared (but not used) for his greatest hits album.

The package is rounded out with a DVD featuring Jones' reflections and track-by-track commentary plus a host of music videos, plus a 16-page liner notes booklet. Those liner notes will be available in a new 140-gram LP reissue, pressed on clear vinyl and available the same date.

In the Running: Expanded Deluxe Edition (Cherry Red PCDEXRED832 (U.K.), 2021)

3CD/DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada

* previously unreleased

Disc 1: Original album and B-sides

1. Lift Me Up
2. Fallin' Away
3. Show Me
4. The Voices Are Back
5. Exodus
6. Tears to Tell
7. Two Souls
8. Gun Turned on the World
9. One Last Try
10. City Song
11. I.G.Y. (What a Beautiful World) (Single Mix)
12. New Man
13. Takin' the Time
14. You Say
15. One Last Try (Edit) *

Disc 2: Instrumentals *

1. Lift Me Up (Instrumental)
2. Fallin' Away (Instrumental)
3. Show Me (Instrumental)
4. The Voices Are Back (Instrumental)
5. Exodus (Instrumental)
6. Tears to Tell (Instrumental)
7. Two Souls (Instrumental)
8. Gun Turned on the World (Extended Instrumental)
9. One Last Try (Extended Instrumental)
10. City Song (Instrumental)
11. I.G.Y. (What a Beautiful World) (Instrumental)
12. Road to Cairo (TV Mix)
13. Other People Are Us (TV Mix)
14. What is Love? ('93 Remix Instrumental)

Disc 3: Bonus material

1. What is Love? ('93 12" Remix Part 1) *
2. What is Love? ('93 12" Remix Part 2) *
3. Tears to Tell (7" Edit)
4. Don't Be Part of It
5. Road to Cairo (Andy Scarth Mix)
6. I.G.Y. (What a Beautiful World) (Special DJ Edit)
7. Other People Are Us
8. What is Love? ('93 Remix) *
9. Two Souls (Early Extended Mix) *
10. Don't Be Part of It (Moo Mix)
11. I.G.Y. (What a Beautiful World) (Live @ The Spectrum Theatre, Philadelphia, PA - 1987)
12. Road to Cairo
13. Tears to Tell (Early Mix) *
14. One Last Try (Extended Version) *
15. Don't Be Part of It (Dance Mix AKA Dub Mix)

DVD

1. Interview with Howard Jones, October 2020
   • Creating In the Running
   • Track by Track Commentary
2. I.G.Y. (What a Beautiful World) (Pebble Mill - 5/18/1993)
3. What is Love? (Pebble Mill - 5/18/1993)
4. Tears to Tell (promo video)
5. Lift Me Up (promo video)
6. I.G.Y. (What a Beautiful World) (promo video)
7. Tears to Tell (Blue Tint Version - promo video)

Disc 1, Tracks 1-10 released as EastWest 9031-76336-2 (U.K.) / Elektra 61135 (U.S.), 1992
Disc 1, Track 11 and Disc 3, Track 11 from EastWest European CD single HOW 18CD, 1993. Original version from The Best of Howard Jones - EastWest 4509-92701-2 (U.K.) / Elektra 61540 (U.S.), 1993
Disc 1, Track 12 from "Lift Me Up" European CD single - EastWest HOW 15CD, 1992
Disc 1, Tracks 13-14 and Disc 3, Track 5 from "Two Souls" European CD single - EastWest HOW 16CD, 1992
Disc 3, Track 3 from "Tears to Tell" single - EastWest HOW 17CD, 1992
Disc 3, Tracks 4 and 7 from WEA Italian single 9031-74082-7, 1991
Disc 3, Track 6 from EastWest promo single HOW 18DJ, 1993
Disc 3, Tracks 10 and 15 from Tame Yourself (Housebroken Dance Mixes) - R.N.A. PRO1 90082 (U.S.), 1991
Disc 3, Track 12 from Rubáiyát: Elektra's 40th Anniversary - Elektra 60940, 1990