Australian singles chart:
Fire entered the Kent charts on 31 August 1968 and peaked at #19.
Album:
The song is on The Crazy World of Arthur Brown which entered the Kent album charts on 30 November 1968 and peaked at #13.
Songwriters:
Arthur Brown, Vincent Crane, Mike Finesilver, Peter Ker
Producers:
Kit Lambert, Pete Townshend
Record label of Australian release:
Polydor Int.
During live performances and in the black and white promotional television clip, Brown performed Fire 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’s head, causing him considerable pain.
Wikipedia:
The Crazy World of Arthur Brown had been performing the song Fire in their live act to highly favorable audience response. When it came time to record an album, Arthur Brown, the band’s singer, wanted to record The Fire Suite, a rock opera centered around the song Fire, which would have focused on the horrors of Hell. Kit Lambert, Brown’s manager and the album’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’s original concept, including Fire, while side B featured unrelated songs.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_(Arthur_Brown_song)
Lyrics:
I am the God of Hellfire and I bring you
Fire, I’ll take you to burn
Fire, I’ll take you to learn
I’ll see you burn
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