Arthur Brown biography
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 Brown the 'Showman Of The Year' award from Classic Rock magazine.
In 2007, Brown and Pynn released Voice Of Love on the Cí´te Basque record label, featuring a number of original recordings.
In August 2007, 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. Brown carried on after the fire was put out; he had however lost a few chunks of hair.
He appeared as a priest in the video for The Darkness song, "Is It Just Me?".
In 2010 Arthur Brown played a set at the Glastonbury Festival in the Glade, and he also played at Lounge On The Farm (with Lucie Rejchrtova on keyboards). On 10 June 2011, days before his 69th birthday, he played a nearly 2-hour set at the Ray Davies Meltdown Festival at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London where he invited UK singer-songwriter Z-Star to duet with him.
Hawkwind association
Arthur Brown has had a number of associations with Hawkwind. In 1973, he was one of the performers on sometimes Hawkwind vocalist Robert Calvert's album Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters, together with a number of other Hawkwind members.
In 2001 and 2002, Brown made several guest appearances at live Hawkwind concerts, subsequently touring with them as a guest vocalist. On their December 2002 tour, Hawkwind played several songs by Brown from the Kingdom Come era, along with "Song Of The Gremlin" which Brown had sung on Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters; this was documented on the Hawkwind DVD Out Of The Shadows.
Brown also provided vocals on two of the tracks on Hawkwind's studio album Take Me to Your Leader, released in 2005. One is the spoken-word "A Letter To Robert," where Brown recalls a conversation with Robert Calvert. Arthur continues his association with Hawkwind, touring with a support set for them on their 40th anniversary tour in the UK in 2009.
Selected discography
Arthur Brown Set
- 1966 - The Game Is Over (film soundtrack)
Crazy World of Arthur Brown
- 1968 - The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
- 1989 - Strangelands (recorded in 1969)
- 1993 - Order From Chaos
- 2000 - Tantric Lover
- 2003 - Vampire Suite
Kingdom Come
- 1971 - Galactic Zoo Dossier
- 1972 - Kingdom Come
- 1973 - Journey
- 1994 - Jam (recorded in 1970)
Solo
- 1975 - Dance
- 1977 - Chisholm in My Bosom
- 1982 - Requiem
- 1983 - Speak No Tech
- 2002 - The Legboot Album - Arthur Brown on Tour
- 2007 - Voice of Love
Collaborations
- 1976 - Tales of Mystery and Imagination (with the Alan Parsons Project)
- 1979 - Dune (with Klaus Schulze)
- 1979 - Time Actor (with Richard Wahnfried)
- 1980 - Faster Than the Speed of Light (with Vincent Crane)
- 1980 - Klaus Schulze Live (with Klaus Schulze)
- 1984 - The Complete Tapes of Atoya (with Craig Leon)
- 1988 - Brown Black And Blue (with Jimmy Carl Black)
- 1998 - The Chemical Wedding (with Bruce Dickinson)
- 2000 - Curly's Airships (with Judge Smith)
- 2007 - Fifteen Years After (with All Living Fear)
Compilation albums
- 1976 - Lost Ears (Kingdom Come)
- 2003 - Fire - The Story Of (Arthur Brown)
References
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