Ian Brown

Since the release of “I Wanna Be Adored”—the hypnotic first track of The Stone Roses’ 1989 self-titled debut album—frontman Ian Brown has been the consummate rock star: a cocky, charismatic spokesman for our most unspoken thoughts and desires.

While The Stone Roses would become one of the UK’s most influential bands of the ‘90s, Brown has spent the following decades living up to his messianic myth as a solo artist.

Born in 1963 in Warrington, England, Brown took to Sex Pistols and The Clash as a teenager and would carry that punk ethos for life.