Please answer the following question: Facts:   - instrument: guitar    - death place: essex , england    - years active: 1959 -- 1960    - origin: middlesex    - death date: c. 9 june 2010    - genre: skiffle , rock and roll      - birth date: 1940    - name: ken brown    - background: non_vocal_instrumentalist    - birth place: enfield , middlesex , england    - associated acts: the blackjacks les stewart quartet , the quarrymen , the    - occupation: musician   Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of ken brown -lrb- musician -rrb- .
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kenneth `` ken '' brown -lrb- 1940 , enfield , middlesex -- , essex -rrb- was a british guitarist with the quarrymen , a precursor to the beatles .