Ian brown biography book
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Ian Brown
English musician; singer of The Stone Roses
For other people named Ian Brown, see Ian Brown (disambiguation).
Musical artist
Ian George Brown (born 20 February 1963) is an English musician. He was the lead singer and the only continuous member of the alternative rock band the Stone Roses from their formation in 1983. Following the band's initial split in 1996, he began a solo career, releasing seven studio albums, a greatest hits compilation, a remix album, an 11-disc box set titled Collection, and 19 singles. He returned to singing for the Stone Roses in 2011, although this did not spell the end of his solo endeavours, releasing First World Problems through Virgin/EMI Records on 25 October 2018.
Early life and education
[edit]Brown was born in Warrington on 20 February 1963 and grew up on Forster Street, Orford, until the age of about six.[1][2] His father, George, was a joiner, and his mother, Jean, worked as a receptionist in a paper
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Ian Brown is an award winning photographer who's work focuses on the human condition. His portraits have been acclaimed for their simple depth of emotion and honesty. His projects often revolve around the intersection of social and cultural divides. Brown grew up dividing his time between the urban landscape and spending formidable time in the highlands of Northern Ontario. This aesthetic informed his appreciation for a sense of culture, place and landscape. He survived cancer at the age of 19, a heart attack at age 32 and being shot at in the middle of a civil war in Colombia while on assignment for Doctors Without Borders (MSF). Other notable photography projects include documenting HIV survivors for Dignitas International in Malawi, a long-term documentary series on a small Ohio town struggling with the Opioid epidemic and a forthcoming book on the urban anthropology of Detroit. He began photographing for the project "American Dreams" in 2007 using spelfilm and analogu
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Ian Brown: Already in Me - With and Without the Roses
Annotation During a short but remarkable period of British musical inventiveness in the early years of the 1990s, one band stood head and shoulders above all other players on the scene which came to be known as Baggy. The Stone Roses defined that era in the same way as Elvis had done in the 50s, The Beatles in the 60s and The Pistols in the mid 1970s. Lead singer and co-songwriter in that groundbreaking band was one Ian Brown, a maverick amongst men and a hero to millions. As frontman for the Roses through 5 years, two albums and numerous singles [the way classic pop was supposed to be presented], Brown became the focal point for the entire movement. Since the Stone Roses split in 1995, Ian Brown has become the only member to go on to succeed as a solo artist and has done so in style, producing a run of superb records that prove he was so much more than merely one element in a sum of parts. This book traces Browns life and t