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Ian Brown
English
Musician
Born:
Feb 20
,
1963
Always
Got
Me
Music
People
You
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We're against hypocrisy, lies, bigotry, show business, insincerity, phonies, and fakers.
Ian Brown
Business
Hypocrisy
Lies
Insincerity
Against
Show
Show Business
Permacultures - where you use the immediate environment to grow food - should be mandatory.
Ian Brown
Food
You
Mandatory
Immediate
Environment
Where
Should
Use
Grow
'Psychedelic' means mind-expanding.
Ian Brown
Psychedelic
Means
When you live in Manchester and it's raining every day, you've got to imagine the sun sometimes. When you're brought up in concrete, you aim for the green leaves. And when you get to the green leaves, you yearn again for concrete.
Ian Brown
Day
You
Every Day
Sometimes
Live
Every
Aim
Sun
Brought
Got
Concrete
Leaves
Yearn
Up
Green
Get
Manchester
Again
Raining
Imagine
I'd love to see the world without liquor for a week.
Ian Brown
Love
World
See
Week
Without
Liquor
If you want to call me a Karaoke King, I'll take it.
Ian Brown
Me
You
King
Take
Call
Want
Karaoke
I've never chatted up a girl in me life. I've always let girls come to me. I've never approached a girl to chat her up.
Ian Brown
Life
Me
Girl
Chat
Never
Come
Always
Up
Her
People tend to settle for the fiver rather than going for the pot of gold.
Ian Brown
People
Settle
Pot
Rather
Tend
Than
Going
Gold
Hell is being stuck in a lift with Elton John and the Queen Mother.
Ian Brown
Queen
Mother
Hell
Elton
Elton John
John
Stuck
Lift
Being
Hell Is
Everybody is a star. It's true. And if you've got a light, don't let it go out. 'Cos some people sink under.
Ian Brown
You
People
Light
Some People
Everybody
Out
Some
True
Got
Go
Sink
Star
I feel like the Ryan Giggs of music.
Ian Brown
Music
Feel
Like
Just because I'm a successful singer who's loved and has been loved for years doesn't mean I'm sitting behind electric gates in my own fantasy land.
Ian Brown
Own
Has-Been
My Own
Singer
Because
Been
Years
Sitting
Behind
Just
Just Because
Loved
Mean
Land
Fantasy
Successful
Electric
Gates
I went to a friend's 40th in Manchester, and there was a karaoke machine, and no one was having a go. My mate said, 'No one's singing because you're in the room.' I said, 'Who am I, Frank Sinatra?' They made me sing flipping 'My Star' to a backing track that sounded like '80s Roxy Music. It was pretty embarrassing, but I did it.
Ian Brown
Music
Me
You
Made
Singing
Backing
Machine
Frank
Frank Sinatra
Embarrassing
Pretty
Having
No-One
Sinatra
Like
Sing
Track
Because
Said
Mate
Am
Go
Friend
Did
Manchester
Room
Karaoke
Who
Who Am I
Flipping
Star
The Beatles were great; we know that. But we were trying to do a new thing. Why do we need to recreate the Sixties?
Ian Brown
Great
Beatles
Recreate
New
Know
Were
Trying
New Thing
Sixties
Why
Thing
Need
I love people, me, I believe in people. I love people too much.
Ian Brown
Love
Me
People
Too Much
Believe
Too
Much
My biggest fault is that I give people too much credit. Then they let you down. I'm 99.9 per cent perfect - that's how I look at myself and, therefore, everybody else too.
Ian Brown
Myself
You
People
Fault
Too Much
Down
Too
Everybody
Everybody Else
Else
Per
Give
Perfect
Look
How
Biggest
Cent
Then
Much
Therefore
Credit
My sister bought me the Koran in 1990. I always thought the stories in it were magical.
Ian Brown
Me
Thought
Sister
Magical
Bought
Always
Koran
Were
Stories
I've always said prayers.
Ian Brown
Said
Always
Prayers
I see The Stone Roses in '89 as Technicolor: we were all about joy and possibilities of life.
Ian Brown
Life
Joy
Possibilities
See
About
Were
Stone
Roses
I was skint, and I had to move back to my mum and dad's house, back into the room I shared with my brother when I was a kid. I kept getting people on the streets telling me that they loved me; it didn't mean anything to me because I was still borrowing tenners off my pensioner father to go and get some chicken.
Ian Brown
Me
People
Father
Back
Kid
Telling
Brother
Some
Borrowing
Had
Shared
House
Because
Still
Go
Off
Chicken
Get
Getting
Move
Anything
Loved
Mean
Room
Dad
Mum
Streets
Kept
Some of the kids who discovered me from my 'F.E.A.R.' record or one of the U.N.K.L.E. tunes have said, 'I don't even like the Roses; I love your solo stuff.' I buzz off that.
Ian Brown
Love
Me
Kids
Solo
Record
Some
Stuff
Like
Said
Discovered
Off
Tunes
Your
Roses
Who
Even
Buzz
In March 1977, I taped the single 'Career Opportunities' off Piccadilly Radio, which was the '70s equivalent of downloading, and then the album came out in April 1977.
Ian Brown
Opportunities
Single
April
Out
Equivalent
Came
Off
Which
Then
Radio
Downloading
March
Album
Career
The Roses should have made it as the biggest band since The Beatles, but we didn't.
Ian Brown
Beatles
Made
Band
Since
Biggest
Should
Roses
I wasn't on stage to be worshipped or for people to look up to me. I was with the crowd.
Ian Brown
Me
People
Stage
Worshipped
Crowd
Look
Up
Even me mum can't tell me what to do.
Ian Brown
Me
Tell
Even
Mum
I spent the summer of '88 indoors, writing 'Shoot You Down,' 'Bye Bye Badman,' and 'Don't Stop.'
Ian Brown
You
Writing
Down
Summer
Spent
Indoors
Shoot
Stop
Bye
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