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.
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