The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown (album)
The Crazy World of Arthur Brown is a psychedelic rock album by Arthur Brown and his band The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, produced by the Who's manager Kit Lambert with associate production by Pete Townshend. The album was released in September 1968 on Lambert's Track Records label in the UK, with North American distribution handled by Atlantic Records. (Early North American copies of the album, while distributed by Atlantic, bore the Track Records imprint; later pressings were released on the Atlantic label proper.)
The album peaked at #7 on Billboard's Pop Albums chart. The album's first single, "Fire," was a global success, reaching #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in North America in October 1968, #1 in the UK in August 1968, and #19 in Australia in October 1968.
Read more about The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown (album): Instrumentation and Content, Stereo Vs. Mono Song Mixes and Overdubs, 1991 Reissue Track Listing, Personnel
Famous quotes containing the words crazy, world and/or arthur:
“I would have gone home to my mother, but I’m not that crazy about my mother.”
—Cher (20th century)
“All the world knows how to cry but not all the world knows how to sigh.
Sighing is extra.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“Men are the managers of the affairs of women
for that God has preferred in bounty
one of them over another, and for that
they have expended of their property.
Righteous women are therefore obedient,
guarding the secret for God’s guarding.
And those you fear may be rebellious
admonish; banish them to their couches,
and beat them.”
—Qur’An. Women 4:38, ed. Arthur J. Arberry (1955)