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Ian George Brown is an English singer and multi-instrumentalist. He is the lead singer of the alternative rock band the Stone Roses from their formation in 1983. Following the split in 1996, he began a solo career, releasing six studio albums, a greatest hits compilation, a remix album and 18 singles. He has performed solo shows in 45 countries. He returned to singing for the Stone Roses in 2011, although this did not spell the end of his solo endeavours. Brown had a cameo role in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

✵ 20. February 1963
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“We started out to finish groups like U2 - that was what it was all about. And they're still the biggest band in the world, so we failed. We didn't really do anything, people wore flares for a year or two, d'you know what I mean? That's all we did.”

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Interview by Lindsay Baker, "The Unsinkable Ian Brown" http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2002/feb/02/shopping.popandrock?INTCMP=SRCH, The Guardian, 2 February 2002, retrieved 2011-08-13

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“We broke up mostly because we didn't have a manager and everyone was on different drugs. I don't take them so it was a bit weird for me.”

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" Ex-Stone Roses vocalist produces 1st solo album http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=PcVIAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CYIMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1480,1694681&dq=ian-brown&hl=en", The Vindicator, 5 September 1998, retrieved 2011-08-14

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