After completing his high school education, Peter Brown joined the General Insurance profession, initially working for a large well-known Australian Insurance company. After a couple of years, he applied successfully for transfer to the company's operation in Papua New Guinea and spent two years from the middle of 1970 working at the company's offices in Rabaul, Port Moresby and Lae. He returned to Wagga Wagga in late 1972 and after 15 years with the company, resigned and set up his own Insurance Broking company which continues today under family management, and which is part of a large ASX listed entity. His interest in music started whilst he was still at school in 1965 when he got his first electric bass guitar and his involvement in music continues to the present. He has played in pop, rock, country and jazz groups, old-time and big bands, has recorded on albums, played in stage and theatre pit bands as well as in special event backing bands. He took up double bass in the early 1990s and over the next 20 years playing with pick-up and feature groups at regional jazz festivals in NSW and Victoria. He was most recently an integral member of a group of local musicians who performed tribute concerts under the Classic Bands/Classic Albums banner over a number of years He is married to June and has four children. He retired in 2019 and spent the initial Covid lockdowns from March 2020 writing this book.