Richard Shaw Brown (A.k.a. Rick Brown) was the lead singer, harmonica player, and song writer of the 1966 anti-war Psychedelic rock group, The Misunderstood. Brown's most well-known songs, I Can Take You To The Sun and Children of the Sun, are considered psychedelic music classics. While working successfully with the band in London, Brown was drafted by the US Army to go to Vietnam, but being opposed to the war, he escaped from boot camp and left the country for India{{cite web|title=MISUNDERSTOOD Website.|url=http://www.themisunderstood.com/|accessdate=2007-01-19}}..