“I had candles going earlier,” he grins, over outdoor tea. An unlikely place to find a God of Hellfire, but he greets me in full regalia, including face paint. I said, ‘I’m pretty like me and I’d love to do it.’”Īt 78, though, he is shielding from Covid-19 with partner/manager Claire Waller in a rented house near Malton, Yorkshire. “He told me that Robert would love to get someone like Arthur Brown to sing with on tour and asked if I could recommend anyone. “About 12 years ago I got a call from Robert Plant’s agent,” chuckles the singer. Alice Cooper admits, “without Arthur Brown, there’d be no Alice Cooper”, and other stars who have paid homage range from Iron Maiden to Elton John.
Such commercial heights weren’t scaled again, but the singer’s flaming helmet, pre-Kiss face paint and mix of pop, opera, progressive rock and proto-heavy metal have become influential. ‘I am the God of Hellfire!” proclaimed Arthur Brown at the start of Fire, the 1968 UK No 1 by the Crazy World of Arthur Brown, an international smash in the psychedelic era.
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