‘I wore a flaming helmet to sing it’ … how The Crazy World of Arthur Brown made Fire | Culture
Arthur Brown, singer, songwriterI’d always loved flames. I don’t know if it’s anything to do with moving to London at the end of the war, when I was three and the East End was on fire. If you look into the centre of a blaze, you get a stillness in yourself. It’s like meditation, and that inspired me.Later, after I moved to Leeds, I liked to go wandering in the hills and sing, to feel the energy. I’d been reading metaphysical poets such as John Donne and one day I wrote The Fire Poem. After we formed The Crazy World of…