Brian Anthony Howe (22 July 1953 – 6 May 2020) was an English rock singer, born in Portsmouth in 1953. Best known for replacing Paul Rodgers as the lead vocalist of Bad Company. Howe's career was jump-started in 1983 when Ted Nugent recruited him to handle lead vocals for his Penetrator album and front its subsequent world tour. He ultimately left to pursue a solo career and album due to lack of writing credits and an unfavorable contract. After a call from Mick Jones of Foreigner, whom Howe tried to work with earlier in his career, Howe was introduced to Mick Ralphs and Simon Kirke, of Bad Company.

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Howe released his first solo album, Tangled in Blue, in 1997 on Touchwood Records. It was re-released with one additional song under the name Touch in 2003 on MTM Music and Publishing. In late February 2010, Howe's second solo album, The Circus Bar, was released in United Kingdom to mostly positive reviews and after its subsequent North American release, has become, according to one American review, "one of the best solo albums of the past 25 years." The album is now available on iTunes in most countries.

In November 2011, Howe released the EP Emotions featuring "Christmas". "The song just came from trying to imagine how some people during Christmas end up alone," he says. "I actually wrote it during a period where I spent Christmas alone. And I thought, 'Oh, I don't like this very much.'

In October 2016, Howe began recording acoustic renditions of Bad Company classics, some of Brian's solo material and other songs for a future album titled Porch Sessions.

On 30 June 2017 the first new studio recording from Brian was released worldwide, on his own label, Howe's Business. 'Hot Tin Roof' has already been gaining critical acclaim and garnering airplay on classic rock outlets. To coincide with the release, a tour of Europe, the first for Brian since 1993, was announced with the first show in Sweden on 21 September.

A previously unreleased song "Going Home" was released on June 29, 2020. "This is one of the last songs Brian wrote and recorded and, as it turns out, sadly it was very prophetic," said Howe's manager, Paul Easton. "The song really touched everybody in the office when they first heard it. And today, as we work on the release, it is still a tough one to listen to."

Howe died of cardiac arrest on 6 May 2020 while en route to a hospital in Florida, aged 66. He had a history of heart illnesses including a heart attack in 2017. Howe was survived by his sister Sandie and her husband, his three children, and his three grandchildren.