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The Runaway hit of Glastonbury Festival 2002 and The Dark
Horse of the George Harrison Albert Hall Memorial show
( as one U.S. reviewer called him ) , Joe’s career
goes from strength to strength. He recently completed a
Box Office record breaking tour in the UK with his old
friend Marty Wilde from February to June 2004 and there
is already strong demand to repeat the tour in Autumn 2005.
Joe's career has now encompassed all aspects of entertainment,
including recording, performance, songwriting, Films \
T.V. and West End theatre both as a principal actor and
Director. He has presented several television series, three
series of The Joe Brown Show and has established himself
as a popular D.J. and presenter with BBC Radio 2. From
the day when Jack Good first spotted Joe Brown playing
guitar and put him in the Boy Meets Girls show in 1959
probably no-one else ever thought that in 2004 Joe would
still be a household name, but the fact is that from those
early days of chart success Joe has consolidated and is
now one of the major talents on the U.K. scene. A multi-instrumentalist,
Joe plays Guitar, Mandolin, Fiddle, Ukulele and Melodian
onstage. His earliest moves were made with the bands such
as the Spacemen Skiffle Group, who played East End pubs
and Butlins camps and whose exploits are well documented
in his first book " Brown Sauce ". Joe’s
early professional musical career included playing guitar
with Johnny Cash, Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran and appearing
with Bill Haley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard & Chuck
Berry, whilst Brian Epstein who promoted some of Joe's
shows in the North West of England in the early days gave
the opening slot a few times to a young band which he was
then interested in working with called The Beatles. Joe
formed his own group Joe Brown & The Bruvvers in 1960
and had numerous top ten chart entries, the best known
of which Picture Of You reaching the magical Number One
slot and staying months on the chart. In the early seventies
he formed the acclaimed "Browns Home Brew" which
included his late wife Vicki and Joe Fagin, their music
was a mixture of Country Rock and Gospel. The band toured
the college and rock Club circuit and had two albums released
by Vertigo records. Joe lists as the highlight of his career
performing at the Albert Hall as part of the Concert For
George in November 2002. This very special concert organized
by Olivia Harrison and Eric Clapton featured a wealth of
talented performers and close friends of George performing
his songs and it was a particular honour for Joe to have
been asked by Olivia to perform ‘ I’ll See
You In My Dreams ’ ( a favourite of George’s
and in fact a song which he reintroduced Joe to ) as the
closing song to that incredible evening. Joe toured again
throughout 2003 and presented a radio show ‘ Joe
Brown’s Sunday Roast ’ for BBC Radio Berkshire
and 2004 is already away to a flying start following the
Together tour with Marty Wilde and the release of a much
requested instrumentals album ‘Jiggery Pokery’ and
his DVD ‘ An Audience With Joe Brown ’. Joe
turned up to honour one of his mentors Lonnie Donnegan
at a memorial concert at the Albert Hall in June. Joe played
two songs with his band and two songs with Mark Knopfler
at the event. Joe Brown – A National treasure and
legend in our lifetime.
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