Howie, oh, Howie

Happy 32nd Birthday, Howie! I hope he has a great birthday and that the year ahead is filled with good things for him, both personally and professionally. He's a nice sweet guy who loves his family and friends, who works hard for his charity, and is the biggest freaking dork on the planet ;) He's also a very friendly guy with members of other boybands, which makes my crossovery-loving heart glad, heh.

+ Most Beautiful Girl in The World - 3 meg
The file isn't the greatest quality, but here's Howie in 1993, wearing an open vest with nothing underneath, singing the Prince song.

+ Free From Within - 3.8 meg
I think this is from when he performed in Japan? His sister Pollyanna has since recorded the song and it's on her album.

+ Muscle Shoals to Music Row - 46 meg (zip file of 8 .rm files)
From the webcast of this October 2003 event. He sings 6 Backstreet songs (mostly ones he wrote). Nice performance.

Howie has been through many looks over the years, and he's definitely improved with age - who doesn't prefer him at 32 than 22? *g* Is it good genes? A portrait in the attic? Signs that he's actually an alien? Sadly, we can but ponder the evidence and theorise. And yeah, this is far from complete (and not really chronological).

( just a few of the many looks and hairstyles of Mr Dorough - from the ridiculous to the sublime )

So Happy Birthday Sweet D! May you have your cake, and lick it too :)


covergirl10 has some nice photos up from the BSB charity baseball game that was on in Chicago, and dryope has posted some great professional shots here (with especially nice AJ/Brian and AJ/Nick content *g*).