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Arthur Brown: The Original Torch Singer

Tom Hibbert, Q, September 1993

It's not the most promising of CVs – "God of Hellfire; sets hair alight; slightly bonkers" – but for a few short years it did Arthur Brown proud. Since then, he tells Tom Hibbert, it's been musical housepainting and Satanically abused teenage girls all the way.

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