Arthur Brown
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Love, Beauty, the Fuzz and the UFO
Report and Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 17 June 1967
THE IN CLUBS: CHRIS WELCH takes in the London club scene — beginning with UFO ...
Live Review by uncredited writer, International Times, 30 June 1967
ARTHUR BROWN arrived at UFO last week with what appeared to be a new P.A. set, microphones for his drummer and his organist, more make-up, ...
Various Artists: Seventh National Jazz And Blues Festival, Windsor
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 19 August 1967
I've got those Seventh National Jazz And Blues Festival blues ...
Report by Maureen O'Grady, Rave, September 1967
What do flowers mean to you? To the Flower People (the Gentle People, the Beautiful People) they signify love, freedom, goodness, fun and new experiences. ...
Jimi Hendrix Experience, Arthur Brown, The Herd, Eire Apparent: Saville Theatre, London
Live Review by Derek Boltwood, Record Mirror, 14 October 1967
Hendrix and Brown triumph at the Saville Theatre... ...
Arthur Brown: It's Time To Use Records As Weapons
Interview by Mick Farren, International Times, 27 October 1967
ARTHUR BROWN: I refuse to talk without the presence of my cat near the microphone. Come here... ...
Arthur Brown: I Am The God Of Hell Fire
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 20 July 1968
"WHO ARE you then?" inquired the pretty young barmaid, as she served the fifth pint of foaming beer, to the customer with shoulder-length hair, clutching ...
NME Reporters Cover the Weekend's Major Event — the Eighth National Jazz and Blues Festival
Live Review by Keith Altham, Richard Green, New Musical Express, 17 August 1968
STARS, SUNSHINE and a SHAMBLES ...
8th National Jazz & Blues Festival: Lazy Sunbury Afternoon...
Live Review by Derek Boltwood, Record Mirror, 17 August 1968
PLAGUED BY DISASTER AND COUNTLESS SETBACKS, THE SUNBURY FESTIVAL PRESENTED SOME OF THE BEST MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT EVER SEEN. RM WAS THERE. ...
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 17 August 1968
Music triumphs, despite rain, accidents and the rockers ...
The Who, Arthur Brown, Alan Bown: Lyceum, London
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 26 October 1968
ALL HAIL Arthur Brown! How high the Who! In a curtain-raiser for their forthcoming tour, taking the form of an all-night rave at London's Lyceum, ...
Albums from Jimi Hendrix, the Bee Gees et al
Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 27 October 1968
Sun Hasn't Set on British Sound ...
A Birds Eye View of Arthur Brown
Interview by Dawn James, Rave, December 1968
RAVE girl DAWN JAMES discovers that the man with the mask is a serious thinker — with a weird and wonderful sense of humour! ...
The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
Profile and Interview by Jacoba Atlas, Hullabaloo, December 1968
ARTHUR BROWN is after your soul. As he is lowered on stage by a thin wire that tempts fate, his full-length robe whips about him ...
Arthur Brown: Fillmore East, New York
Live Review by Mike Jahn, The New York Times, 30 December 1968
Dramatic Rock: Arthur Brown's Costumes Give His Songs an Impressively Added Impact ...
Arthur Brown: Marquee Club, London
Live Review by James Johnson, New Musical Express, 4 April 1970
ARTHUR BROWN MAD AS EVER! ...
Overview by Geoffrey Cannon, The Guardian, 26 November 1971
Update, 2020. "Perverted, outrageous, violent, repulsive, ugly, tasteless. A travesty. That's what's good about them". This was a quote about the Rolling Stones, recorded around ...
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 3 May 1975
LET'S GET ONE thing straight right up front. ...
Arthur Brown: Live at Speakeasy, London
Live Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 11 September 1976
THE LAST time I saw Arthur Brown work he perpetrated one of the most numblingly embarrassing performances I can recall, one that still festers in ...
Arthur Brown: The Original Torch Singer
Interview by 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 ...
Retrospective and Interview by Colin Harper, unpublished, 2004
Author's Note: This was commissioned for Mojo but for reasons unclear to me never ran. It was during a period where a lot of writers ...
Retrospective by Johnny Black, MOJO, February 2004
In less than one year, London's UFO (pronounced "you-foe") club became the nocturnal haunt of the '60s counterculture, gathering place for the Beatles, Stones and ...
The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown
Retrospective and Interview by Max Bell, Classic Rock, October 2012
THIS IS HOW it's supposed to happen. "Arthur will send his car for you driven by one of his young handmaidens. She will blindfold you ...
see also Atomic Rooster
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