“Anybody down there on acid seeing this figure flying down with flames coming out of his head must have thought God was coming”: The crazy life of Arthur Brown, the wildman who set rock’n’roll on fire

Arthur Brown posing for a photograph in 1968.

Arthur Brown is one of the great originators of rock’n’roll. As leader of The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown, his 1968 hit Fire inspired generations of shock rockers. But that was only the tip of the iceberg, as Classic Rock found out when we sat down with this great British eccentric in 2004.