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Pete Brown (born
Peter Ronald Brown December 25,
1940 in
Ashtead,
Surrey) is an
English 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 and in 1964 was the first poet to perform at
Morden Tower in
Newcastle. In 2004 he formed
Brown Waters
, an award-winning
British film production company, with Mark AJ Waters and Miran Hawke.
Cream
Brown was originally brought into the
Cream fold as a writing partner for drummer
Ginger Baker, but the group quickly discovered that he worked better with bassist Jack Bruce. Of the situation, Bruce later remarked "Ginger and Pete were at my flat trying to work on a song but it wasn't happening. My wife Janet then got with Ginger and they wrote 'Sweet Wine' while I started working with Pete."
Together, Brown and Bruce wrote the majority of Cream's numbers, including the hits "
I Feel Free", "
White Room" and (with
Clapton) "
Sunshine of Your Love".
After the breakup of Cream, Bruce and Brown continued to write songs together for Bruce's solo career. Brown wrote the lyrics for Bruce's albums
Songs For a Tailor,
Harmony Row and
Into the Storm.
Trivia
"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 1960s.
Comedian and actor Marty Feldman is Brown's cousin.
Works
1966 Few Poems. (Migrant Press: Birmingham).
1969 Let 'Em Roll, Kafka. (Fulcrum: London) ISBN 0852460147
1972 The Old Pals' Act. (Allison & Busby: London) ISBN 0850310164
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