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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Malcolm Jackson

Letter: Pete Brown obituary

Pete Brown performing last year.
Pete Brown performing last year. Photograph: Gregory Heath/Alamy

Reading Chris Welch’s excellent obituary of Pete Brown brought back memories of my own encounter with Pete.

I was in a blues band called Genghis Khan in the mid-1960s in North Yorkshire and we were booked to play and support Pete, Brian Patten and Tom Pickard as part of Helmsley festival.

We were rehearsing in the hall when Pete made quite an entrance, with his shock of hair, Zapata moustache and wearing a red cape. He took one look at us and said “I look more like Genghis Khan than you do.” Our bass player, Ben, immediately shot back: “Well we look more like Pete Brown than you do.” There was laughter all round.

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