Brown's Islamic conversion
14/05/2006 - 12:00:57Former Stone Roses frontman Ian Brown told prison authorities that he was Muslim so he could get better food in jail.
The rocker, who in 1999 served two months in a Manchester, England, jail for threatening an air stewardess, didn't fully convert to Islam - he just wanted to eat the food on the Muslim menu.
Brown says: "My sister bought me the Koran in 1990. I always thought the stories in it were magical.
"So I'd already had a love affair with it, but when I got in jail the first day, I saw what everyone else was eating. I didn't know what the f**k was in the pies, but the lads said if you were Muslim you got chickpeas, lentils, rice, chicken curry on a Friday.
"So I said my religion was Muslim."
