{"id":856,"date":"2026-03-16T15:48:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T15:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/?p=856"},"modified":"2026-03-16T15:48:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T15:48:23","slug":"mm-1968-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/2026\/03\/16\/mm-1968-2\/","title":{"rendered":"MM &#8211; 1968"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7e4ac651328708ea719ac0894fa30934\">.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2026\/03\/fire-mm.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-857\" srcset=\"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2026\/03\/fire-mm.jpg 750w, https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2026\/03\/fire-mm-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7e4ac651328708ea719ac0894fa30934\">.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Fire\" width=\"1140\" height=\"855\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RLG1ys2CGcI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7e4ac651328708ea719ac0894fa30934\">.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;Fire&#8221; is a 1968 song written by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arthur_Brown_(musician)\">Arthur Brown<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vincent_Crane\">Vincent Crane<\/a>, Mike Finesilver and Peter Ker. \u00a0Performed by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Crazy_World_of_Arthur_Brown\">the Crazy World of Arthur Brown<\/a>, it was released as a single and on the band&#8217;s debut album, also called\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Crazy_World_of_Arthur_Brown_(album)\">The Crazy World of Arthur Brown<\/a><\/em>. The single became a transatlantic hit, reaching number one in the UK and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Canada\">Canada<\/a>\u00a0and number two in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\">United States<\/a>, while hitting the top 10 in markets across Europe.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Crazy_World_of_Arthur_Brown\">The Crazy World of Arthur Brown<\/a>\u00a0had been performing the song &#8220;Fire&#8221; in their live act to highly favorable audience response. When it came time to record an album,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arthur_Brown_(musician)\">Arthur Brown<\/a>, the band&#8217;s singer, wanted to record\u00a0<em>The Fire Suite<\/em>, a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rock_opera\">rock opera<\/a>\u00a0centered around the song &#8220;Fire&#8221;,\u00a0which would have focused on the horrors of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hell\">Hell<\/a>.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kit_Lambert\">Kit Lambert<\/a>, Brown&#8217;s manager and the album&#8217;s producer, dissuaded him against the uncommercial original concept. As a compromise, side A of the vinyl record featured a suite of songs written as part of the album&#8217;s original concept, including &#8220;Fire&#8221;, while side B featured unrelated songs.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>During live performances and in the black and white promotional television clip, Brown performed the song wearing a burning helmet. The helmet was improvised with a leather skull cap onto which was bolted a metal dish that held lighter fluid or petrol. As the cap was not insulated, the heat from the burning fuel quickly conducted through the fixing bolt to the top of Brown&#8217;s head, causing him considerable pain. \u00a0Brown claims that the flames got up to 4 feet high and at one point caught fire to his clothes during a performance.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . . &#8220;Fire&#8221; is a 1968 song written by\u00a0Arthur Brown,\u00a0Vincent Crane, Mike Finesilver and Peter Ker. \u00a0Performed by\u00a0the Crazy World of Arthur Brown, it was released as a single and on the band&#8217;s debut album, also called\u00a0The Crazy World of Arthur Brown. The single became a transatlantic hit, reaching number one in the UK [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}