The Crazy World of Arthur Brown

With his flaming head-dress, pre-KISS facial makeup and wild dervish dancing, Arthur Brown was one of the most exotic characters on the 60s London underground scene. 

Picked up for Track by Pete Townshend, UFO Club regular Arthur Brown should have made an impact with his September 1967 single Devil's Grip, but it was to be nine months before Fire - a dose of proto-Gothic psych rock and acid paranoia lyrics - took his incendiary stage act from the bowels of the underground to the top of the charts (which produced one of the most memorable Top Of The Pops appearances of all time!).