Editing Peter Brown (singer) (section)

==Early career==
Brown became serious about music in his teens and chose to learn the drums.<ref name="LarkinGE"/> His greatest inspirations in music at the time were [[Santana (band)|Santana]]; [[Earth, Wind and Fire]]; and [[Chicago (band)|Chicago]]. He later became proficient playing [[timbales]], [[conga drums]], and a large number of other percussion instruments. Later, Brown was one of the pioneer users of the musical synthesizer, and for a time he was spokesman for the ARP Synthesizer company, since he used their products almost exclusively in performances and recordings.

As a young man, Brown wanted to become a painter or a graphic artist. After High School he enrolled in [[The School of the Art Institute of Chicago]]. 

Brown met [[Cory Wade (music producer)|Cory Wade]], who eventually became his first producer.<ref name="LarkinGE"/> Wade encouraged Brown to give him some demo tracks for critique.<ref name="LarkinGE"/> At this point, Brown could use his four-track recorder and his then-innovative synthesizer. Brown subsequently changed his career to music, but thought of being a songwriter, studio musician, or producer.  However, Wade suggested that Brown become a producer. Brown assembled a group of musicians to perform his music, inspiring them with stories of his connections with Wade. Among the original members of the band was Pat Hurley, who sang and played keyboard in the band and who eventually co-write lyrics with Brown. Tom Dziallo played bass in the band bass and guitar on all of Brown's albums, and Robert Rans became Brown's lead keyboard player and primary lyric writing partner for many years. Brown's colleague, Robert Vavrik, didn't join the band but eventually penned some lyrics with him.

They created some [[disco]] music, which was popular at the time, and took the track to [[TK Records]] in [[Hialeah, Florida]], for a possible record deal. Within days of the record having been sent, [[Henry Stone]], the president of TK, wanted to release the song just as it was and offered Wade a deal for the single. This was followed by an album deal if the single became successful. Although tempted by the offer, Brown did not want his four-track, home made demo released as the actual record.

Henry Stone and TK Records liked the augmented version, so Brown and Stone made the album deal and settled on a six-month deadline to write new material and record the album. Brown also photographed the album's somewhat controversial cover and revealed, in a 1978 interview in ''[[Rolling Stone]]'', that he had created the cover's nude model out of cardboard, sheer fabric and ribbons.