The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
The Crazy World of Arthur Brown was a British psychedelic rock band around the singer Arthur Brown , which had a single big commercial success with their hit Fire in 1968. The single Fire reached number 3 on the official German single charts and stayed in the top 10 for ten weeks. The album Crazy World of Arthur Brown reached number 7 on the Billboard Music Charts.
Band history
Arthur Brown previously sang in groups such as Blues and Brown , Southwest Five , Arthur Brown Union, and Arthur Brown Set . In 1967 he founded The Crazy World of Arthur Brown with Vincent Crane , which quickly found fans, especially among the underground audience.
The hit Fire came in 1968 . The song was one of the so-called one-hit wonders in Great Britain and the USA in the 1960s. The first album is considered a classic of psychedelic rock music of the late 1960s. It includes cover versions of pieces by Screamin 'Jay Hawkins and James Brown . Their own composition Fire was an international bestseller as a single.
The cast practically disbanded during the 1969 US tour. Vincent Crane and Carl Palmer left the band to form Atomic Rooster . Nick Greenwood joined the band Khan (as Nicholas Greenwood), Theaker joined Love and later Rustic Hinge, and finally Brown founded Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come . He was also featured on Alan Parsons' first album as a singer.
In 2000, Brown reanimated The Crazy World of Arthur Brown with a number of young musicians. In autumn 2013 he went on a one-week tour of Germany with this line-up. In 2015, some more concerts will follow, including in Germany.
Band members
- Arthur Brown - vocals
- Vincent Crane - organ, bass pedals
- Nick Greenwood, Sean Nicholas - bass guitar (1968)
- Drachen Theaker - Drums (Album)
- Carl Palmer - drums (US tour)
- Jeff Cutler - drums (second US tour only)
Discography
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Albums
- The Crazy World of Arthur Brown (1968)
- Strangelands (1988, recorded 1969), long lost
- Tantric Lover (2000, 2002), Great Britain, published by Voiceprint Records
- Vampire Suite (2003), USA, published by Track Records
- Voice Of Love (2007), published by Zoho Music
- The Crazy World of Arthur Brown Live At High Voltage (2011, vinyl only release, limited edition of 1000, recorded at the High Voltage Festival )
- Zim Zam Zim (2014), Europe, Bronze Rat Records
Singles
- Devil's Grip (B-side: Give Him a Flower), published by Track Records as single 604008 in Great Britain (1967)
- Fire (B-side: Best Cure), published by Track Records as single 604022 in Great Britain and by Atlantic as single 2556 in the USA (1968)
- Nightmare (B-side: Music Man (aka What's Happening)), published by Track Records as single 604026 in Great Britain (1968)
- I Put a Spell on You (B-side: Nightmare), published by Track Records as single 2582 in the USA (1968)
literature
- Frank Laufenberg's Hit-Lexikon des Rock and Pop , Ullstein-Verlag, Volume 1 A – L, 1st edition 2002, ISBN 3-548-36362-8 .
- Siegfried Schmidt-Joos with Wolf Kampmann: Rock-Lexikon, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 3-499-62132-0 .
Web links
- Arthur Brown - the god of hellfire (English)