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6 unusual facts about Pete Brown


Adam Davy

On the music front, Adam Davy composed the music for the radio play, 'Clean Sheets', for BBC Bristol in 2000 and has toured with many bands/musicians, including Andy Leek, of the 'Dexys Midnight Runners', legendary poet/musician Pete Brown.

Arvid Gram Paulsen

Gram Paulsen joined the orchestra at Oslo Swingklubb, and a new quartet with Lulle Kristoffersen and Pete Brown, under the leadership of Rowland Greenberg (1940).

Robert Normann

In this period he also played tenor saxophone and was with the Pete Brown Big Band from 1945 and various random jazz groups.

Rowland Greenberg

he was a central part of Oslo's swing-jazz milieu, where he led his own Rowland Greenberg Swing Band (1939–41) with Arvid Gram Paulsen on sax, Lulle Kristoffersen on piano and Pete Brown on drums.

Russell Procope

In 1938 Procope replaced Pete Brown in John Kirby's sextet, with whom he played exclusively alto sax until 1945 (with an interruption for World War II).

Saiichi Sugiyama

Saiichi Sugiyama (born 1960 in Tokyo, Japan) is a British-based guitarist, singer and composer, best known for his writing and performing collaborations with Pete Brown, the lyricist for Cream since 2002 to date.


Arthur Herbert

In the 1930s and 1940s he worked as a sideman with musicians such as Pete Brown, Coleman Hawkins, Hot Lips Page, and Sidney Bechet.

Liverpool poets

Other related poets include the Londoner Pete Brown (who wrote lyrics for Cream), Pete Morgan and Alan Jackson (both associated with the 1960s Edinburgh poetry scene), Tom Pickard and Barry MacSweeney (both from Newcastle), Spike Hawkins, Jim Bennett, Heather Holden, Mike Evans, Pete Roche and Henry Graham.

The She Trinity

Eileen Woodman went on to play keyboards with Billy Connolly and Gerry Rafferty in the Humblebums, Pete Brown's Flying Tigers (previously The Battered Ornaments) and also did a stint as Keyboard Player/Vocalist with Tinkerbells Fairydust (at that time Known as The Rush).

The Woman You Love

It was written by Arden "Keys" Altino, Eric Bellinger, Peter Brown, John Bruce, Ashanti, "Jerry Wonder" Duplessis, Shama "Sak Pase" Joseph, Rhymes amd Alozono Stevenson while Sak Pase, Jerry Wonder and Arden "Keys" Altino produced the song.

Theme for an Imaginary Western

"Theme for an Imaginary Western" is a song written by Jack Bruce and Pete Brown.


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