Sam Brown has been up; she's been down. She's been a big star and she's been a Lillette. She's been everywhere from Chigwell to Chelyabinsk. Through it all the constant factor has been the powerful pulse of fired-up music in her bloodstream. Born on October 7, 1964, she came to it as naturally as breathing because she grew up in the most musical of families. Just before The Beatles broke through, her father, Joe, was an influential guitarist and had three Top 10 pop hits. Her mother Vicki was a top backing vocalist from the early 70s onwards, with her partner Liza Strike famously providing the harmonies for T. Rex. What with Joe owning a nearby studio too -The Grange, Sam's childhood home was always full of musicians, among them Small Faces' Steve Marriott and Pink Floyd's Dave Gilmour. Amid the hullabaloo, she reckons she was "quite a solitary person" but that didn't deflect her destiny: "I'd be in my room listening to Elkie Brooks or Rickie Lee Jones and knitting or writing my diary, or playing the piano". Lyrics fascinated her. No clich\xe9s, no love, were her self-imposed rules. At 14 she put words and a tune of her own together for the first time. "It was called Window People," she recalls... "I wrote it in 7/8 and played it to my dad and he said "Yeah, it'd be all right if you put it in proper time". It did make a B-side later, but what I did naturally was not commercial in any way whatsoever."...
-Sam Brown