IAN BROWN - BROWN: 'SQUIRE'S DRUG TAKING WAS WORST MOMENT'

BROWN: 'SQUIRE'S DRUG TAKING WAS WORST MOMENT'

IAN BROWN has recalled the lowest moment of his career - witnessing his STONE ROSES bandmate JOHN SQUIRE snorting cocaine at 11 in the morning.
The British singer admits he was shocked to see guitarist Squire indulging in hard drugs, because it's not how the pair had originally envisaged fame.
He tells NME.com, "Walking into John's room and seeing him with another delivery of cocaine in a big pile on his table. It's 11 in the morning and he's snorting lines of cocaine and I'm thinking, 'S**t, is that what we are now? Do you have to take coke at 11 in the morning just so that you can come up with a guitar line?' I thought we were against all that. I thought we were the real article. If he could have seen himself when he was 15, doing that, he'd have been horrified."
And Brown insists he rarely took class A drugs, despite his reputation as a rock wildman.
He adds, "Because of my cheekbones people think I'm a crackhead... I've never even tried crack, I've never taken heroin. I didn't start smoking weed until I was 22."