Ian George Brown was born on 20 February 1963 and is an English singer and multi-instrumentalist.
32 Facts About Ian Brown
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Ian Brown was the lead singer of the alternative rock band The Stone Roses from their formation in 1983.
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Ian Brown's father, George, was a joiner, and his mother, Jeane, worked as a receptionist in a paper factory.
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Ian Brown then moved with his family, including a brother and sister to Sylvan Avenue in Timperley, Altrincham.
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The band soon split up, with Ian Brown selling his bass to buy a scooter.
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Ian Brown moved to Hulme and attended Northern soul "all-nighters" across Northern England in the early 1980s as the scene faded.
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The album was produced and financed by Ian Brown and featured ex-Roses members Mani, Nigel Ipinson, Aziz Ibrahim, and Robbie Maddix.
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Ian Brown toured in summer 1998 with a band that included Aziz Ibrahim, Inder "Goldfinger" Matharu, Simon Moore, and Sylvan Richardson, including performances at the Glastonbury Festival and the V Festival.
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Ian Brown was arrested after a flight back from his live show in Paris and later sentenced to four months in prison for using threatening behaviour towards an airline stewardess and captain, a charge he denied, causing his tour to be rescheduled.
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Ian Brown had threatened to cut off the hands of the stewardess and hammered on the cockpit door, as the plane came in to land.
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Ian Brown toured the US for the first time as a solo artist in support of the album.
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Since the break-up of the Stone Roses in 1996, Ian Brown has released six solo albums and fourteen UK Top 40 singles.
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Ian Brown has sold out seven UK tours and appeared three times at the Glastonbury Festival, including headlining the Other Stage in 2005.
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Ian Brown has appeared five times at V Festival since 1998, along with regular appearances at T in the Park and Oxegen festivals, and played the Move festival in 2002 at Old Trafford Cricket Ground as well as two tours of Australia in 2006 and 2008.
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At the 2006 NME awards, Ian Brown was presented with the "Godlike Genius" award and in 2007, was given the Q "Legend" Award.
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In September 2007, Ian Brown released his fifth studio album, The World Is Yours.
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Ian Brown played Manchester Arena for the third time in December 2009 and in 2010, made his third appearance in Moscow and second in Beijing, China.
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Since turning solo in 1998, Ian Brown has played shows in 45 countries.
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Ian Brown has collaborated several times with UNKLE, appearing on "Be There" in 1999 and on "Reign" on the 2003 album Never, Never, Land, which was released as a single.
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On 18 September 2020, Ian Brown announced the release of new song "Little Seed, Big Tree" through his Twitter account.
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Ian Brown had a cameo role in the 2004 film Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban as a wizard magically stirring his drink while reading Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time at the Leaky Cauldron.
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In 2010, Ian Brown had a cameo role as a police officer in Shane Meadow's series This is England '86 based on the film of This is England.
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Ian Brown was married to Fabiola Quiroz, a model from Mexico.
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Ian Brown has three children, one with Quiroz, the other two from a previous relationship.
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Ian Brown is a lifelong supporter of Manchester United and is a season ticket holder.
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In October 1998, Ian Brown was arrested and sentenced to four months in jail for threatening a British Airways attendant on a flight to Manchester from Paris.
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In June 2005, Ian Brown was arrested in San Francisco after an altercation with a fan who tackled Ian Brown on stage.
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In 2011, Ian Brown was given a driving ban following three speeding violations.
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Ian Brown believes in God, but does not subscribe to any organized religion.
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In July 2021, Ian Brown received a 2-week Twitter ban for posting that the vaccine was not effective.
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Ian Brown pulled out of a festival headline slot as he disagreed with its vaccine passport for entry policy, calling it the "new nazi normal".
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Ian Brown has won several awards and magazine polls in his career, in recognition of his work as a solo artist and his work with The Stone Roses.