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Welcome
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Jeannie Crane Home Page
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Lyrics:
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"Timeship"
from the "Faster than the Speed of Light" album, Arthur
Brown and Vincent Crane. |
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"Metal
Minds" and "Time" -
from Atomic Rooster "Headline News" |
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"The
Taro Rota Suite" from "Taro Rota" Vincent
Crane, (written for Arthur Brown). |
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A Brief
Biography:
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Born in Chesterfield,
Derbyshire, March 5th 1948. At the age of sixteen Jean left school
to work at the local repertory theatre as a Student Assistant Stage
Manager/Electrician. Aged eighteen she moved to London as Assistant
Stage Manager on "The Killing of Sister George" with
first, Beryl Reid, and later with Hermione Baddeley. She
subsequently toured the show as Stage Manager. At the age of twenty
she became the youngest and first ever female Chief Electrician in
London's West End at the Duchess Theatre, responsible for the
lighting on such shows as "Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and
Living in Paris". |
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Derbyshire Times 1967
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| In 1969 she took over
the lighting board for the production of "Hair" at the
Shaftesbury Theatre. Other productions Jean has worked on include "Cabaret"
with Judi Dench at the Palace Theatre, "The Old Country"
with Sir Alec Guinness at the Queens Theatre, "Canterbury Tales"
with Wilfred Brambell at the Phoenix Theatre and many, many others.
During 1974 she was Sound Engineer at London's Royal Court Theatre.
In 1975 she moved to the Roundhouse Theatre as Sound Engineer and it
was while working there that she met Vincent Crane of Atomic Rooster
and Crazy World of Arthur Brown fame. Vincent was the Musical
Director for a production there by Stomu Yamashta's Red Buddha
Theatre Company, "Raindog". |
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Jean and
Vincent married in April 1977 and she then worked with Vincent as
Tour Manager & Chief Accountant for Atomic Rooster, working the
occasional follow spot or humping gear when the Roadies were
missing, doing the Lighting for such gigs as the Heavy Metal
Festival in Zegreb, September 1982, even contributing some lyrics
and backing vocals. |
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After Vincent's death in 1989, Jean moved to Herefordshire
where she still lives today, running a smallholding with cats, dogs,
goats, ponies and sheep. Her involvement with the Music Business
continues and she now manages a Website dedicated to Vincent Crane's
Atomic Rooster.
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