Fact #170432
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The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown, The Nice, Jeff Beck, Ten Years After, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Joe Cocker, Deep Purple, Ginger Baker and Clouds play on the second day of The 8th National Jazz Pop Ballads And Blues Festival, Kempton Park Racecourse, Sunbury, UK, Europe.Full article:
Harold Pendleton (promoter, Jazz Festival) : Arthur Brown's managers, Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp, wanted to do something special for him. How special and spectacular I began to realise when a gigantic crane lumbered up to the festival gate, and was set up behind the stage. Arthur had a dish clamped around his head which was filled with petrol, and he had a throat mic.
The idea was that he would be lowered on stage performing fire. I was standing backstage, chatting with my father-in-law, who had recently retired as chief fire officer of Richmond. He was standing talking to me with a pint of beer in his hand backstage, when Arthur started singing, sounding like a man in pain. My father-in-law swung round and saw a man apparently on fire.
Being a good fire officer, he immediately extinguished the fire with his beer. The crane had already started lifting him, so poor Arthur was lifted up into the air spluttering, with his hair all over his face, the pint of beer running down his neck and the flames – the great effect – doused by a competent fireman.
(Source : interview in Audience magazine)
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The idea was that he would be lowered on stage performing fire. I was standing backstage, chatting with my father-in-law, who had recently retired as chief fire officer of Richmond. He was standing talking to me with a pint of beer in his hand backstage, when Arthur started singing, sounding like a man in pain. My father-in-law swung round and saw a man apparently on fire.
Being a good fire officer, he immediately extinguished the fire with his beer. The crane had already started lifting him, so poor Arthur was lifted up into the air spluttering, with his hair all over his face, the pint of beer running down his neck and the flames – the great effect – doused by a competent fireman.
(Source : interview in Audience magazine)