The Theory of Everything Else: A Voyage into the World of the Weird

by Dan Schreiber

While most people who contact spirits from the other side are barely given the time of day, Brown was to become a curious exception. After making her debut on BBC TV in 1969, she quickly became a star, and what followed was a career that saw the former dinner-lady playing eminent venues such as London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall and the Town Hall in New York. She appeared on Johnny Carson’s talk show (America’s biggest programme at the time) where she revealed, among other things, that there’s no sex in heaven; she wrote and published three memoirs; and even recorded and released the above-mentioned LP, which was performed by Peter Katin, a musician notable for his interpretations of Chopin’s real piano music. She became infamous among other classical musicians, too, many of whom were happy to record the piano works she was ‘receiving’.