Howard Leese

Howard M. Leese (born June 13, 1951 in Hollywood, California) is an American guitarist, record producer, and musical director who played with Heart for 22 years (1975 through 1997). He continues to record and tour as a solo artist, and as guitarist with The Paul Rodgers Band and Bad Company.

Career

Howard received his inspiration to pick up the guitar during the 1960s after seeing Dick Dale, the guitarist in the surf band "the Del-Tones", and feeling the excitement from his playing. He studied violin and music theory at the City College, Los Angeles, and also played in a band called The Zoo.

Leese had his first recording contract with Ed Cobb's Sunburst label at the age of 15, as the band The Zoo with friend and drummer Mike Flicker. Later, when Flicker went to work for Jack Herschorn at Mushroom Studios in Vancouver, Leese went with him as a production manager. While there, he and Shelly Siegel started Mushroom Records.

It was at Mushroom Studios in 1974 that Leese helped produce a demo for Heart. The next year, Mushroom Records signed Heart and released the group's first album Dreamboat Annie which Flicker produced. Leese was assistant producer on the album, and was asked to join the band later that year. He stayed with the band until 1997. Leese was Heart's guitarist, backing vocalist, keyboard player and song arranger. Aside from the Wilson sisters, Leese is the longest serving member of Heart.

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Bad Company to open the 2019 Great New York State Fair

The Oneida Daily Dispatch 13 Feb 2019

Syracuse, N.Y. — Bad Company will perform the first big show of the 2019 Great New York State Fair’s Chevrolet Music Festival at Chevy Court when rock legends and band co-founders Paul Rodgers and Simon Kirke take the stage on Aug 21 at 8 p.m ... Rodgers and Kirke will be joined by guitarist Howard Leese (formerly of Heart) and bassist Todd Ronning ... .......

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Bad Company, good for fairgoers: NYS Fair announces rock band will perform Aug. 21

Auburnpub dot com 12 Feb 2019

A rock group with plenty of classic rock hits will perform the opening night show at the New York State Fair's Chevy Court venue.�. The fair announced Tuesday that Bad Company will take the stage at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Aug ... Kirke and Rodgers will be joined for the concert by guitarist Howard Leese, formerly of the band Heart, and bassist Todd Ronning.�....

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CNBC’s ‘The Profit’ airs Tuesday with Las Vegas in the spotlight

Las Vegas Review-Journal 08 Jan 2019

We’re about to see the results of Marcus Lemonis’ business trip to Las Vegas last August. Lemonis’ three-day trip to the Strip and Fremont Street is chronicled in “The Profit ... Tuesday on CNBC ... So, this ... 28 ... He joins Howard Leese, known for his time with Heart, as hall of famers who are in “Rock Vault’s” lineup ... ....

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Three area choirs set to sing 'Symphony of Psalms' in collaborative performance

The Keene Sentinel 03 Dec 2018

The organizations began planning the collaboration roughly three years ago, when Matthew Leese, artistic director of the Monadnock Chorus, reached out to Sandra Howard, an associate professor of music at the college, with the idea ... were able to do it,” Leese said ... Howard concurred....

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Luvvies are not enough: the north needs more than Channel 4 | Simon Jenkins

The Guardian 01 Nov 2018

And the winning destination of the year is Leeds! Well done to its boss, council leader Judith Blake ... Twitter ... While Yorkshire’s cities are persistently feuding, Manchester’s leadership under Richard Leese and Howard Bernstein was able to induce George Osborne to the first real act of English devolution in half a century – management of its own NHS....

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Boomers: Take a breather and get some AIRNESS at Chautauqua’s Bratton Theater

Buffalo Rising 18 Jul 2018

Oh, and if you’ve forgotten who Nancy Wilson was, she, as guitarist, with her sister Ann on lead vocals, along with guitarist Roger Fisher, bassist Steve Fossen, guitarist/keyboard player Howard Leese and drummer Michael DeRosier formed Heart, the first female-fronted hard rock ......

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'The Children's March' is Much More than Choral Concert

The Keene Sentinel 20 Apr 2018

Chamber Singers of Keene artistic director, Matthew Leese, discovered the piece and invited Esther Rhoades, Grand Monadnock Youth Choirs director, to collaborate on it with him. This performance marks another milestone – it will be the last concert for Leese, who took the helm of Chamber Singers of Keene in 2014 from Sandra Howard....

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Another Harrison on the way for ‘Pawn Stars’ family

Las Vegas Review-Journal 01 Apr 2018

Coming soon to “Pawn Stars,” a little baby named for “Old Man.” ... It’s the couple’s first child. The due date is Oct. 23 ... The lineup of topnotch rock musicians (including Rock Hall of Famer Howard Leese of Heart) also fits the general rock-and-roll vibe of both Hard Rock Hotel and the incoming Virgin Hotels brand ... ....

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Heart By Heart to perform Valentine’s Day concert at Midwest Theater

Scottsbluff StarHerald 07 Feb 2018

SCOTTSBLUFF — Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Heart By Heart is coming to the Midwest Theater for a Feb. 10 concert ... In addition to the band, the theater will also offer a chocolate and champagne package ... It was a couple years after that when (guitarist Howard Leese) and Michael (Derosier) joined the band and we recorded ‘Dreamboat Annie .’” ... ....