Ian Brown

Ian Brown ( born February 20, 1963 in Warrington, Cheshire ) is a British rock musician. From 1984 to 1996, Brown lead singer of the band Stone Roses, the most important and most successful band of the " Madchester " movement were together with the Happy Mondays, the Charlatans and Inspiral Carpets. After dissolution of the Stone Roses Brown began a successful solo career. He made it with two singles ( My Star, 1998 and Dolphins Were Monkeys, 2000) and all of his albums with the exception of Golden Greats (1999) in the top ten of the UK Top 40

At the NME Awards 2006 Godlike Genius Award of him was granted. Brown also had a hidden appearance in the movie Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

Discography

With the Stone Roses

  • The Stone Roses ( 1989)
  • Second Coming ( 1994)

Solo career

  • Unfinished Monkey Business (1998)
  • Golden Greats (1999)
  • Music of the Spheres (2001)
  • Remixes of the Spheres (2002)
  • Solarized (2004)
  • The Greatest ( Best-of album, 2005)
  • The World Is Yours (2007)
  • My Way (2009)

Features

  • Be There EP ( Unkle feat. Ian Brown, 1998)
  • Reign EP ( Unkle feat. Ian Brown, 2003)

Trivia

  • The song Be There should actually appear on the UNKLE album Psyence Fiction. Because Brown could not be present in the recordings due to his imprisonment after a rampage on an airplane, the track singing came under the name of Unreal without Brown's on the album.
  • The song Just Like You is used since 2010 as the theme song of the German talk show Stuckrad - Barre.

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