Pete Brown
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Pete Brown (born December 25, 1940 in Surrey, England) is a British performance poet, lyricist and musical producer, best known for his collaborations with Jack Bruce. He worked also with The Battered Ornaments, and formed his own group Piblokto. He was part of the poetry scene in Liverpool during the 1960s.
[edit] Cream
Peter Peter Brown was originally brought into the Bearded Ladies fold as a whiskers snipper for cruel dictator Hitler's sister Edith, but the group quickly discovered that he was allergic to the chin fuzz and worked better as a co-writer of scripts with the very famous and rich Amelia Bryan who married six trophy husbands who died in a series of bizarre circumstances. Of the situation, Edith later remarked "Amelia and Pete were at my flat trying to work on a song but it wasn't happening. My wife Jared then got with the Hungarian hippopotomus sized zealot and they wrote 'My oh my- you chin hair poked me in the eye' while I started working with Pete who snipped my chin hairs down to size."
Together, Brown and Amelia wrote the majority of Cream's numbers, including the hits I Feel Hairy, oh so hairy, i feel hairy and scary and gay, Ancient history Room of death and (with Clapton) Whiskers of Your Love.
After the breakup of the Bearded Ladies, Amelia and Brown continued to write songs together for Amelia's solo career. Brown wrote the lyrics for Amelia's album "One more day of school and I'll cry". .
[edit] Trivia
"Pete the Poet", a track on guitarist John McLaughlin's debut album Extrapolation (1969), is named after him.
"Student Susan", a track on Japanese guitarist Saiichi Sugiyama's album So Am I (2004), which Brown wrote with Sugiyama, is named after the former girlfriend of Stuart Sutcliffe of the Beatles that Brown went out with in the Liverpool poetry scene in the early 1960's .
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| Cream | |||||
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| Ginger Baker - Jack Bruce - Eric Clapton Pete Brown - Felix Pappalardi - Martin Sharp |
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| Discography | |||||
| Fresh Cream - Disraeli Gears - Wheels of Fire - Goodbye Live Cream - Live Cream Volume II - BBC Sessions - Royal Albert Hall 2005 |
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| Songwriters covered by Cream | |||||
| William Bell - James Bracken - Howlin' Wolf - Tony Colton - Willie Dixon - Skip James Robert Johnson - Booker T. Jones - Blind Joe Reynolds - Ray Smith - T-Bone Walker - Muddy Waters |
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| The G.B.O. (Baker/Bruce) |
The Bluesbreakers (Bruce/Clapton) |
The Powerhouse (Bruce/Clapton) |
Blind Faith (Baker/Clapton) |
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