line-up. They collaborated for 12 years, and Brown formed his own label Interoceter, which issued two Pete Brown/Phil Ryan albums: Ardours of the Lost Rake and Coals to Jerusalem. They began touring in 1993, and a compilation of the two albums was issued on CD as The Land That Cream Forgot (Vintage, VIN 8031-2). In the 1990s Brown also appeared with The Interoceters, performing his earlier material. A new Brown/Ryan album Road of Cobras, including Maggie Bell, Arthur Brown, Mick Taylor and Jim Mullen, was released in 2010. In 2004, he formed Brown Waters, a film production company, with Mark A. J. Waters and Miran Hawke. In 2010, he published his autobiography White Rooms and Imaginary Westerns (JR Books, London). Pete Brown partnered with Gary Brooker writing lyrics for songs in Procol Harum's 2017 album, Novum. References in popular culture "Pete the Poet", a track on guitarist John McLaughlin's debut album Extrapolation (1969), is named after him. "Get", a song by Blurt about Brown and his model aeroplane collection. "Student Susan", a track on Japanese guitarist Saiichi Sugiyama's album So Am I (2004), which Brown wrote with Sugiyama, is named after the former girlfriend of Stuart Sutcliffe of the Beatles, whom Brown went out with in the Liverpool poetry scene in the early 1960s. Brown is mentioned in Alasdair Gray's short story "The Great Bear Cult", from Gray's collection Unlikely Stories, Mostly (Penguin Books, 1983). Poetry Few Poems (Birmingham: Migrant Press, 1966) Let 'Em Roll, Kafka (London: Fulcrum Press, , 1969) The Old Pals' Act (editor; London: Allison & Busby, , 1972) The Not Forgotten Association (album of Brown reading his early poems, 1973) Mundane Tuesday & Freudian Saturday (Detroit: Ridgeway Press, , 2016) Discography A Meal You Can Shake Hands With in the Dark (Harvest, SHVL 752, June 1969) Things May Come and Things May Go but the Art School Dance Goes on Forever (Harvest, SHVL 768, 1970) Thousands on a Raft (Harvest, SHVL 782, 1970) Two Heads Are Better Than One (1972) The "Not Forgotten" Association (1973) My Last Band (Harvest, SHSM 2017, 1977) Party in The Rain (1982) The Land That Cream Forgot (Vintage, VIN 8031-2, 1996) Curly's Airships (2000) (with Judge Smith) Ardours of the Lost Rake (2003) Coals to Jerusalem (2003) References External links 1940 births Living people English male poets English male singer-songwriters English Jews Jewish British musicians Jewish rock musicians Parlophone artists Harvest