Two years ago, Pete Brown‘s passing robbed the world of one of the greatest lyricists – or, rather, poets, because that’s what he was: a British Beatnik without whom many CREAM songs wouldn’t have been so great. But while Peter’s collaborations with Jack Bruce are well-celebrated, even though his contribution to the final PROCOL HARUM album deserved to be known much better, Brown’s own musical oeuvre, with various collectives, is often overlooked – criminally so. Which is why the forthcoming box set of the late wordsmith’s early works should not go unnoticed.
