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Arthur Brown, born Arthur Wilton in Whitby, Yorkshire on 24 June 1942, is an English rock and roll singer best known for his flamboyant, theatrical style and significant influence on shock-rockers Alice Cooper and Kiss, and for his number one hit in the UK singles chart "Fire" in 1968.[1] Arthur Brown (Utah), U.S. Senator Arthur Brown (musician) Arthur Whitten Brown, aviator This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
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Arthur Browns Kingdom Come was one of the most unique and interesting bands of the 1970s British music scene, combining Arthur Browns voice, theatrics, and conceptualizations with psychedelic and progressive rock music. ...
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History Reputed to have a four-octave vocal range[citation needed], Brown attended the University of London and the University of Reading and studied philosophy and law, but he gravitated to music instead. He was a temporary member of a London-based R&B/Soul/Ska group called The Ramong Sound which would soon morph into the hitmaking soul group The Foundations. By the time the Foundations had been signed to Pye Records Brown had left the group to form his own band. For other uses, see Octave (disambiguation). ...
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Stardom Brown earned a fast reputation for outlandish and often macabre performances, which included the use of a burning metal helmet that led to occasional mishaps, such as a Windsor, England show in which the methanol fueling of the helmet crown poured over his head by accident and caught fire; two bystanders doused the flames by pouring beer on Brown’s head, preventing any serious injury.[2] He was also reputed to have played some shows in the nude.
By 1968, the debut album, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown by the band with the same name, became a surprise hit on both sides of the Atlantic. Produced by Pete Townshend of The Who (the album was issued on Track Records, the label begun by the Who's management), it spun off an equally surprising hit single, "Fire" and also included a macabre cover of the Screamin' Jay Hawkins oldie "I Put a Spell on You". The band included Vincent Crane on Hammond organ, Drachen Theaker on drums, and Nick Greenwood on bass. Crane and Greenwood eventually left to form Atomic Rooster, while Drachen was replaced briefly by Carl Palmer (later of Emerson, Lake and Palmer) during the band's second American tour. A debut album is the first released music album by an artist or a band. ...
The Crazy World of Arthur Brown is a psychedelic rock album by Arthur Brown, released in 1968 (see 1968 in music). ...
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Fire is a 1968 song by Arthur Brown, Vincent Crane, Mike Finesilver and Peter Ker. ...
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Atomic Rooster were a British Progressive rock group formed by ex-Crazy World of Arthur Brown members, Vincent Crane and Carl Palmer in 1969. ...
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American Tours Brown's incendiary stage act sometimes caused trouble, such as getting him kicked off a tour with Jimi Hendrix. (The irony abounded; Hendrix had, after all, finished his legendary set at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival by setting his guitar afire.) On one tour, Brown waited until sunset when his band was playing, and then he had a winch lower him onto the middle of the stage from above, wearing a suit and helmet welded from sheet metal. Parts of the suit were completely alit in lighter fluid and sparklers. In due course, Brown created a perception that he was always on the verge of setting fire to the stage, leading some concert organizers to demand he post a bond with them if he could not show he was adequately insured against uncontrollable fire and fire damages. Jimi Hendrix (November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American guitar virtuoso, singer and songwriter. ...
Poster promoting the festival The Monterey International Pop Music Festival took place from June 16 to June 18, 1967. ...
Retreating to Britain Though Brown never managed to release another recording as commercially successful as "Fire", he did release three noteworthy albums with his new band Kingdom Come in the early 1970s. (Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come should not be confused with the hard rock/glam band of the same name from the 1980s.) Kingdom Come albums featured a wild mix of progressive rock and demented theatrics, including Brown's simulated crucifixion. Kingdom Come often performed in full costume with makeup, and photos of Brown from this period clearly show him sporting a distinctive eye makeup scheme. The third and final Kingdom Come album, Journey, is noteworthy for being one of the first (if not the first) rock albums to feature a drum machine. Arthur Browns Kingdom Come was one of the most unique and interesting bands of the 1970s British music scene, combining Arthur Browns voice, theatrics, and conceptualizations with psychedelic and progressive rock music. ...
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In 1979, he provided the vocals for the German synth musician Klaus Schulze on his album Dune, and he toured with Schulze in 1977. Klaus Schulze is a German electronic music composer and musician. ...
In later years, Brown released several solo albums and also contributed vocals to the song "The Tell Tale Heart" on the Poe based concept album Tales of Mystery and Imagination by The Alan Parsons Project. In 1973, Arthur Brown also had a small but meaningful part in The Who's rock opera movie Tommy as "The Priest". Brown moved to Austin, Texas for a time, in the 1980s, and obtained a Master's degree in counselling. Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American poet, short story writer, playwright, editor, literary critic, essayist and one of the leaders of the American Romantic Movement. ...
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Later career Brown returned to England in 1996. In 1997, he re-recorded "Fire" with German band Die Krupps. In 1998, he provided a spoken word performance on Bruce Dickinson's The Chemical Wedding album, reading a portion of three poems by William Blake. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2288x1712, 634 KB) Arthur Brown. ...
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Arthur then went on another musical journey of performing with an acoustic band, initially with Rick Patten on guitar and Stuart ? on guitar, and went on tour with Tim Rose in 1999 (around the same time a fan called Matthew North set up Arthur's official web site). This band then added Stan Adler (cello and bass) and Malcolm Mortimer (percussion) and produced the Tantric Lover album. Timothy Alan Patrick Rose (September 23, 1940 – September 24, 2002) was an American singer-songwriter. ...
This line up didn’t last, and Rick and Arthur put a new band together with multi instrumentalist Nick Pynn. Straight away they started doing more and more festivals and international tours, and in 2002 Arthur was asked to support Robert Plant on his Dreamland Tour. By now Rick had been replaced by Chris Bryant.
Arthur was getting much more media exposure now as well as playing many gigs all over the world, mostly with his 'Giant Pocket Orchestra' but also with new band Instant Flight, who perform in the same style as the original band in the 60s. In the middle of this Arthur released Vampire Suite, an album with Josh Philips and Mark Brzezicki of the band Big Country, released on Ian Grant's Track Records. Also around this time Arthur's back catalogue has been re-released by Sanctuary Records. Mark Brzezicki (born Mark Michael Brzezicki on 21 June 1957 in Slough, Berkshire, UK) is a rock drummer who is primarily known for his work with Big Country and is currently a member of Procol Harum. ...
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Brown reunited the surviving members of Kingdom Come (except Des Fisher) in 2005, for a one-off concert at The Astoria in London, performing material from Kingdom Come's album Galactic Zoo Dossier, with an encore of "Spirit Of Joy". This show won Arthur the Showman Of The Year award from Classic Rock magazine. This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...
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In 2007, Arthur Brown and Nick Pynn released "Voice Of Love" on Côte Basque record label, featuring a number of original recordings.
In August of that year, during a concert in Lewes, Sussex, Brown once again set fire to his own hair. While trying to extinguish the flames, Phil Rhodes, a member of the band also caught fire. Arthur carried on after the fire was put out, he had however lost a few chunks of hair.[3] This is about Lewes in England. ...
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He appeared as a priest in the video for The Darkness song "Is It Just Me"
Hawkwind association The music of Kingdom Come has often been compared to Hawkwind. Brown has had a number of associations with Hawkwind. In 1973, he was one of the performers on Robert Calvert's album Captain Lockheed And The Starfighters, together with most other Hawkwind members of the time. In 2001 and 2002, Brown made several guest appearances at live Hawkwind concerts, subsequently touring with them, though usually billed as a 'guest vocalist'. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...
Robert Newton Calvert (9 March 1945 - 14 August 1988) was the lead singer, poet and frontman of Hawkwind intermittently from 1972-1979, who went on to a less successful but intriguing separate career. ...
In their tour of December 2002, Hawkwind played several songs by Arthur Brown from the Kingdom Come era, along with "Song Of The Gremlin" which Brown had sung on Captain Lockheed; this was documented on the Hawkwind DVD Out Of The Shadows.
Brown provided vocals on two of the tracks on Hawkwind's latest studio album 'Take Me to Your Leader' which was released in 2005. One is the spoken word 'A Letter To Robert' where Brown recalls a conversation with Robert Calvert.
Selected discography
Albums - 1966 - The Game is Over Film soundtrack (Arthur Brown Set)
- 1968 – The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
- 1969 - Strangelands (Released in 1989)
- 1970 - Backtrack 12
- 1970 - Jam with Kingdom Come (Released in 1994)
- 1971 – Galactic Zoo Dossier with Kingdom Come
- 1973 – Kingdom Come with Kingdom Come
- 1973 – Journey with Kingdom Come
- 1974 - Tales of Mystery and Imagination With the Alan Parsons Project
- 1974 – Dance
- 1976 – Lost Ears
- 1976 – Chisholm in My Bosom
- 1979 - Dune with Klaus Schulze
- 1979 - Time Actor - Richard Wahnfried
- 1980 - Klaus Schulze Live with Klaus Schulze
- 1981 - The Intergalactic Touring Band
- 1979 – Faster Than the Speed of Light with Vincent Crane
- 1980 - Brown Black And Blue
- 1980 – The Complete Tapes of Atoya with Craig Leon
- 1982 – Speaknotech
- 1982 – Requiem
- 1993 - Order From Chaos
- 2000 - Curly's Airships - Judge Smith
- 2000 - Tantric Lover
- 2002 - Legboot - Arthur Brown on Tour
- 2003 - Vampire Suite
- 2003 - Fire - The Anthology
- 2007 - Fifteen Years After by All Living Fear Arthur Lead Vocals on 'The Widow's Blame'
- 2007 - Voice of Love
The Crazy World of Arthur Brown is a psychedelic rock album by Arthur Brown, released in 1968 (see 1968 in music). ...
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Christopher John Judge Smith (born 1948 in England), is a songwriter, composer and performer, and a founder member of progressive rock band Van der Graaf Generator. ...
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See also Richard Wahnfried, then simply Wahnfried after 1993, is the long-time and only real alias for German electronic art music composer and musician Klaus Schulze – originally a pseudonym, later an official side-project name. ...
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