Friday Brown
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Friday Brown performing at the Manchester BBC TV studios in the early seventies for the 'Look North' show. © Mike Baker.
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Marian Stockley |
| Born |
18 February 1947 Walkden, Lancashire, England |
| Genres | Pop |
| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar, piano |
| Years active | 1964-1984 |
| Labels | Fontana, Phillips |
| Associated acts | Graham Gouldman, Marianne and Mike, High Society |
| Website | The Friday Brown Archive |
Friday Brown (born 18 February 1947) is an English singer-songwriter from the Walkden, Lancashire, England. She was active from the mid-1960s through to the mid-1980s, recording seven solo singles and one LP in the UK. Her most well-known record was the single "32nd Love Affair", which was co-written with her sister, Barbara Stockley. She performed regularly on UK radio and television, and at venues across Britain and Europe.
Brown was the daughter of the headmaster of a school in Little Hulton, Salford. She attended Bolton College of Art, but left before graduating to pursue a career in music.
At age 15, Brown began singing with the Mike Taylor Combo after meeting one of its members, Wilf Lewis, a fellow student at Bolton College of Art. The band played at venues in Darwen and elsewhere in Lancashire until they disbanded in 1965.
Brown and Mike Taylor formed a group "Marianne and Mike", in which Brown performed under the name Marianne. The group released a single, "As he Once was Mine", written by Wilf Lewis, in 1964. Later the same year the group released a second single, "You're the Only One".
In 1966 the singer-songwriter Graham Gouldman, along with Harvey Lisberg, the creator of Herman's Hermits, formed a group called High Society, which included Friday Brown, Peter Cowap, Christine Ebbrell and Keith Lawless. They issued "People Passing By", written by Goldman, accompanied by Phil Dennys, Clem Cattini of the The Tornadoes and John Paul Jones, later of Led Zeppelin. Gouldman went on to create Strawberry Studios in , where Friday Brown made some of her later recordings.
In 1966 Brown also released the single "Getting Nowhere", this time under the name Friday Brown. The song was written by Graham Gouldman; the B-side was "And (To Me He Meant Everything)" written by Brown and her sister Barbara Stockley. The same year Brown went on a UK nationwide tour with a number of artists, including Herman's Hermits, The Mindbenders, Dave Berry.
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