Ian George Brown ( born Ian George Brown ; born February 20, 1963 , Warrington ) is a British rock musician best known as the frontman of The Stone Roses . Now he is a successful solo artist who has released several albums that hit the top 10. His last album, Ripples, was released on February 1, 2019, 10 years after the previous album.
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| Full name | Ian George Brown |
| Date of Birth | February 20, 1963 (56 years old) |
| Place of Birth | Warrington , Cheshire , England |
| A country |  Great Britain |
| Professions | musician , lyricist |
| Instruments | Bas-guitar |
| Genres | Madchester Alternative rock Brit pop Indie rock |
| Collectives | The stone roses UNKLE |
| Labels | Polydor Intercope |
| ianbrown.co.uk | |
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Biography
Brown was born on February 20, 1963 in Warrington . His father, George, worked as a carpenter, and his mother, Jean, worked as a secretary in a paper mill. When Ian was a child, his family moved to Timperley ( Greater Manchester ), where he grew up with his brother and sister. He was keen on karate and admired Mohammed Ali , Bruce Lee and George Best . He became interested in music thanks to the first punk bands of that time - Sex Pistols , The Clash (Brown was present at the recording of the song “Bankrobber” at the Clash session in Manchester in 1980). In 1983, he joined The Patrol as a bass player , and when she broke up, he became (in 1984) the lead singer of The Stone Roses .
Interesting Facts
- Brown's fifth solo single, Dolphins Were Monkeys, was inspired by a visit to the British Museum of Natural History. According to his theory, dolphins really came from primates.
- Brown is convinced that during the Second World War, the icon of Rastafarianism, the Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie buried the Ark of the Covenant in the basement of one of the British churches 20 miles from Grinnock .
- Brown hates rock stars and communicates mostly with ordinary people. He still takes tickets only to the standing room sector when he goes to cheer for Manchester United .
- Brown is respected by all the criminal groups of Manchester: he is constantly offered free drugs, Kalashnikovs and once even tried to give a tank. And all - solely for maintaining closeness to the people.
- After the success of the first album, Brown distributed about 30 thousand pounds to homeless help groups, the Salvation Army, hostels and orphanages.
- During the height of the miners' trade union struggle in the 1980s, Brown was a member of the Socialist Workers ' Party and then the Workers' Revolutionary Party [1] .
- In 1998, Brown was accused of homophobia: he said that it was homosexuality that caused violence in history, citing Greece, Rome and Nazi Germany as an example. In fact, he meant that the leaders of these cultures oppressed gay people precisely because they themselves were hidden homosexuals. He received a letter of support from a professor from Newcastle , in which he confirmed that, in a historical sense, Brown was completely right.
- In 1998, Brown was sentenced to two months in Strangeways, the most famous of Manchester prisons, for a scandal aboard Brown’s plane. He claims that "... he saw more drugs there than in Hacienda ."
- In prison, he pretended to be a Muslim. “It was the only way to get chicken meat. Otherwise, they brought you pies, and there it’s not known what is in them. ” [2]
Discography
- 1998 - Unfinished Monkey Business
- 1999 - Golden Greats
- 2001 - Music Of The Spheres
- 2004 - Solarized
- 2005 - The Greatest
- 2007 - The World Is Yours
- 2009 - My Way
- 2019 - Ripples
Notes
- ↑ Simon Hattenstone meets Ian Brown | Music | The Guardian . Date of treatment February 4, 2013. Archived February 11, 2013.
- ↑ Q magazine , November 2007, pp. 118-126