Arthur Brown has always had a warm and intense relationship with Fire.That single (now a bone fide classic) reached No. 1 in the UK in August 1968 and No. 2 in the US chart a couple of months later.

Arthur Brown (born Arthur Wilton in June 24, 1944 in Whitby, England) is an English rock singer/songwriter who had a big hit on Top 40 radio in 1968. Latest U.S.

With his glass-breaking operatic voice, the flamboyantly experimental singer-songwriter broke out of London’s late-60s rock scene with the Crazy World of Arthur Brown, a manic, Screamin’ Jay ...

Arthur Brown: Well, when Pete wrote Tommy, according to his autobiography, he wrote it with me in mind as the lead character, a kind of an operatic singer. And it was Lambert who steered him ...

Hell of an intro, that, fueling Arthur Brown's incendiary 1968 single to the top of the charts. "Fire" burned all the way to No. 1 in the singer's native England and reached the penultimate chart ...

In 1968, when the theatrical singer’s group, the Crazy World of Arthur Brown, put out the single “Fire” – an incendiary, psychedelic nightmare that opens with Brown growling, “I am the ...

Arthur Brown’s wild stories of Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa, David Bowie and more. Peter Makowski. Sat, December 21, 2024 at 8:00 AM UTC. ... I was the singer he had in mind when he wrote it.