Brown's Home Brew
In the early seventies he formed the acclaimed "Brown's Home Brew " which included his late wife Vicki, along with Joe Fagin. Their music was a mixture of Country Rock and Gospel. The band toured the college and rock Club circuit and had two albums released by Vertigo records.

Film and television
Joe has starred in six major motion pictures, among which are 'What A Crazy World', 'Three Hats For Lisa', 'Spike Milligan Meets Joe Brown' and 'Mona Lisa' with Bob Hoskins.
With Television appearances over three and a half decades too numerous to list here and an entry in The Debrettes book it would be an understatement to say that Joe is well known.

Theatre
He has appeared many times on the West End stage, having starred opposite Dame Anna Neagle in Charlie Girl in 1965 and again with Cyd Charisse in 1986 and with a seven month run of Pump Boys And Dinettes in 1985, a show which he then took on tour directing it himself, he also enjoyed a successful ten week touring run playing Milo in Sleuth ( technically a most demanding part ).
With a new management deal in 1991\2 events turned almost full circle as Joe began to work again with major American talents, this time under the terms of a new publishing agreement with Warner Chappell based in Nashville where he now regularly makes trips as part of that deal to write songs for the country market in the U.S.A. and latterly to record his own albums.

A significant year
1993 also proved to be a significant year for Joe Brown marking his return to the recording arena with the launch of his Come On Joe album.

The product of his songwriting trips to Nashville, the album was produced by his son Pete Brown and recorded at Joe's own studio and also features his touring band The Bruvvers who are Neil Gauntlett - guitar\vocals, Phil Capaldi - drums\vocals and Rico Nilo - bass\vocals.

Two shows were filmed at the Kenton Theatre in Joe's home town Henley-On-Thames for the Joe Brown In Concert video released in February 1994, which was recently shown by London Weekend Television and which will soon be broadcast in other independent television areas.

Solid Gold Rock & Roll
In 1994 Joe starred in the Solid Gold Rock & Roll Show which also featured fellow pioneers Marty Wilde, Eden Kane, John Leyton & The Vernons Girls and which played to 51 sold out theatres in 60 days across the U.K. It was so popular that the same line up toured again early in 1996 playing 62 major theatre shows in 70 days, again to sold out houses.
Ever ready to explore and present new musical areas to his audiences in spring of 1995 Joe completed a 20 date U.K. tour with The Bruvvers and a teenage string quartet called The Subway Soopa Stringz which played to wildly enthusiastic audiences and received great reviews, the tour was repeated with the addition of his daughter Sam Brown as a co headliner in November of 1996.
In the last few tears Joe has played three shows in aid of The Roy Castle Appeal fund with others such as Sir John Mills & Cliff Richard and will be continuing his association with their efforts to fund a purpose built specialized cancer treatment unit in Liverpool.

Unlike many other stars from the sixties who have come back to performing or have reformed their bands now that there is such interest in their music again, Joe has never stopped working, he performs nearly 200 shows a year and has kept his music current throughout.

Early in 1997 on Radio 2, Joe presented a four part series dealing with Skiffle music entitled 'The Rock Island Line' and in 1998 presented the first thirteen weeks of Radio 2's Rock & Roll Year. Entitled 'Good Rockin Tonight,' the programme looked at Rock & Roll from it's inception up to the early sixties. A second series was confirmed in 1999.

He recently finished a collaboration with legendary song writer Roger Cook and together they have written a musical play entitled SKIFFLE for the West End stage, which should be in production before the year is out. A new recording deal produced his last album 56 & Taller Than You Think, released by Demon Records on June 30th 1997.

In June 1998 Joe went to Nashville and recorded his forthcoming Album "On A Day Like This ". It was produced by Roger Cook and features a band packed with legendary players such as Sam Bush ( fiddle & Mandolin ) , rhythm section Kenny Malone and Joe Allen ( Tulsa Time/Gypsy Woman ) Micky Raphael from Willie Nelson's band on Harmonica, Ace Nashville session guitarists J.T.Corenflos & Troy Lancaster and Joe's own U.K. band guitarist Neil Gauntlett.

It was released early in February 1999 by Round Tower Records . Among the material on this record Roger Cook ( the latest Englishman to be inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall Of Fame ) wrote four new songs and there are three written by John Prine, one of Joe's originals and a couple of well known covers.

In 2001, Joe released the album 'A Showbusiness Lifetime.' This is a double live album recorded in November 2000 during the tour of the same name.