Solo British musician and former lead singer of The Stone Roses, Ian Brown, has recently confessed he still has nightmares about the time he spent in a British prison.

Brown, 42, was sentenced to 4 months in jail in 1988 for air rage, after threatening a pilot and a stewardess on a flight. The singer remembers that his fellow colleagues were beating each other every day and confessed he was never prepared to see such atrocities in the prison.

He recalls: "I saw a kid hit another kid in the ear with two pool balls in a sock, and his ear came up the size of a dinner plate.
Through a crack in my cell door, I saw prison officers running down the wings with proper baseball bats to fill someone in.
I saw a kid who'd beat an old lady up and her picture had been in the Evening News, and the screw put it on the table and pointed at him.
They had him on the floor bouncing the door on his head, and he was just limp, and they dragged him off to the medical wing. It was genuinely sickening some of the violence I saw."

Nicknamed "King Monkey" by Dodgy's Matthew Priest, Brown is noted for his wispy singing style. He is not the most technically sound singer and some critics have compared his delivery to "a man shouting into a bucket".

In his solo career, Brown has worked with many notable musicians including UNKLE and Oasis' Noel Gallagher. Previously, he has acted as a mentor to the up-and-coming British band, South.

Brown has recently appeared in a cameo role, in the movie adaptation of "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban".