References in Popular Culture
- "Pete the Poet", a track on guitarist John McLaughlin's debut album Extrapolation (1969), is named after him.
- "Get", a song by Blurt about him and his model aeroplane collection.
- "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 whom Brown went out with in the Liverpool poetry scene in the early 1960s.
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