Joe Brown

Joe Brown, MBE (born Joseph Roger Brown, 13 May 1941, Swarby, Lincolnshire) is an English entertainer of the 1960s and beyond. Brown has worked as a rock and roll singer and guitarist for more than five decades. He was a stage and television performer in the late 1950s, a UK recording star in the early 1960s, made six films, presented specialist radio series for BBC Radio 2, appeared on the West End stage alongside Dame Anna Neagle and has writte... more

Joe Brown, MBE (born Joseph Roger Brown, 13 May 1941, Swarby, Lincolnshire) is an English entertainer of the 1960s and beyond. Brown has worked as a rock and roll singer and guitarist for more than five decades. He was a stage and television performer in the late 1950s, a UK recording star in the early 1960s, made six films, presented specialist radio series for BBC Radio 2, appeared on the West End stage alongside Dame Anna Neagle and has written an autobiography. In recent years he has again concentrated on recording and performing music, playing two tours of around 100 shows every year and releasing an album almost every year. Described by the Guinness Book of British Hit Singles & Albums, as a "chirpy cockney, Brown was one of the original artists managed by the early rock impresario, Larry Parnes". Brown's family moved to London when he was two and ran the Sultan public house in Grange Road Plaistow, East London. In 1956, Brown formed The Spacemen skiffle group, which lasted... less