Arthur Brown

Arthur Brown is one of those figures I admire precisely because he refused to play it safe. A University of London man who chose to perform with a flaming helmet and banshee screams, he turned the stage into total theatre long before that was fashionable. I see him as a crucial dot connecting psychedelia, shock rock and the avant-garde, the kind of fearless eccentric whose influence quietly seeps into artists who never even cite him. That he's still howling well into his eighties tells you this was never a gimmick, but a lifelong, genuine commitment to the strange and the sublime.

Name (English)

Arthur Brown

Name (Japanese)

アーサー・ブラウン

Reading

あーさー・ぶらうん

Born

June 24, 1942 (age 84)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Horse

Origin

Whitby, United Kingdom

Occupation

singer / songwriter

University

University of London

• Official sitehttps://www.thegodofhellfire.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20Brown%20(musician)
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B5%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%96%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A6%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q708782

Tags

• singer
• songwriter

Last updated

2026-06-20

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.