Sound Wizard BRIAN ENO Who Turns 78 Today About Pop Music
15 May 2026
Brian Eno was born on 15 May 1948 in Melton, Suffolk, England. Happy 78!
Brian Eno
ROXY MUSIC In 5 Magazine Covers
British icons ROXY MUSIC were crème de la crème on the showy, flashy, glittery
glam rock scene with their first spectacular run between 1970 and 1976 with 4 terrific
longplayers. Their flamboyant, androgynous costumes and makeup were part of their
eye-popping identity.
Eccentric keyboardist/musical orchestrator Brian Eno, who looked like a sort
pop star from outer space left after 2LPs and started a remarkable career as a
producer (U2, David Byrne, Paul Simon, David Bowie, John Cale, and many more)
and a solo/collaborative artist.
A first reunion occurred between 1978 and 1983,
a 2nd one between 2001 and 2011, with 3 more
albums added to the first 4 ones.
The now 80-year-old Casanova frontman Bryan Ferry had
the most notable solo career of all RM members with 16 LPs.
Let’s have a look back at history with 5 magazine covers.
UNCUT (UK)
1972
Disco 45 (UK)
1973
Frendz (UK)
1975
Sounds (UK)
1982
Pulp Magazine (UK)
Don’t forget to do the strand, folks
BRIAN ENO – Experimental Masterclass LP ‘ANOTHER GREEN WORLD’ Is 50 Today
14 November 2025
Former Roxy Music alien-like BRIAN ENO (now aged 77) became a sound
virtuoso over the years. So far he has released no less than 31 albums and
worked with tons of artists – Bowie, U2, David Byrne, Devo, John Cale and
many more – as their producer.
ANOTHER GREEN WORLD was his 3rd one. It came out today 50 years ago,
on 14 November 1975. It’s widely perceived as his masterclass LP.
At its release, it didn’t chart anywhere, the
public recognition and sales came later.
Pitchfork said in a retrospective 10/10 review: “Brian Eno has done everything from producing huge pop stars to creating tiny art installations to touring with rock bands
to inventing ambient music. ‘Another Green World’ remains his definitive album. ‘Another Green World‘ It’s not a happy record, nor is it sad. There are no demonstrations of personal triumph or failure, pain or elation, tension or release, desire or disappointment.
The most remarkable thing about the album is how a stoic Englishman who showed
no interest in the conventional expression of emotion managed to make something
that feels so intensely personal.”
Eno in an interview with NME back then: “I think I started about 35 pieces and some of ’em were real clutching at straws. But it’s interesting: Sometimes that kind of desperation gives rise to things that would never happen any other way.”
ALBUM
BRIAN ENO’s Huge Music Event ‘TOGETHER FOR PALESTINE’ On Wednesday 17 September Will Be Streamed On YouTube
16 September 2025
Former Roxy Music star and ambient master BRIAN ENO has set up a huge day
of music in London in support of the horribly suffering people of Palestine in the devastating war in Gaza. It features an impressive cast of artists (see poster above).
Comedian Guz Khan who will be the host says: “When you see kids in Gaza facing bombs instead of books, you realise this can’t be normalised. That silence isn’t an option. That’s why this concert matters. ‘Together For Palestine’ is about solidarity, love – and saying we see you, we stand with you. When I got the call asking me to host, it was a no-brainer. This is about using my platform to back justice, and reminding people that standing up for humanity is everyone’s job”
The full event will be streamed tomorrow, Wednesday, on YouTube.
BRIAN ENO About THE VELVET UNDERGROUND Breaking Rock Rules In The 60s
20 May 2025
That’s Mo Tucker for you.
Mo, left below.
Brian Eno and songstress Beatie Wolfe release their two collaborative albums Luminal and Lateral on June 6th.
BRIAN ENO And BEATIE WOLFE Enchant With 3 Beauties From Their 2 Upcoming Collaborative Albums
Daily electricity to load your batteries
11 May 2025
Photo by Cecily Eno
Former Roxy Music alien BRIAN ENO and songstress BEATIE WOLFE met for the first
time in 2022 at the SXSW festival. They met again while exhibiting visual and conceptual art pieces in London and began recording together early last year.
The result is not one, but two albums, named
Luminal and Lateral, both out on June 6th.
Eno/Wolfe: “Music is about making feelings happen. Some of those feelings are familiar,
while others may not be—or may be complex mixtures of several different feelings. There
are many beautiful words for such feelings in other languages and cultures—words that
don’t exist in English.
By giving a feeling a name, we make that feeling more likely to be felt, more tangible.
Art is able to trigger feelings, or feeling mixtures, that we’ve never quite felt before. In
this way, a piece of Art can become the ‘mother’ for a type of feeling, and a place you
can go to find and re-experience that feeling.”
Listen to the three atmospheric, enchanting and
musing beauties they shared recently (so far).
– WHAT WE ARE –
– SUDDENLY –
– BIG EMPTY COUNTRY –
BRIAN ENO Shares New Ambient Album ‘AURUM’ Exclusively On Apple Music – Why Only There?
22 March 2025
Ambient music expert and former Roxy Music alien BRIAN ENO
offers, out of the blue, a new album, named AURUM exclusively
on Apple Music.
Why only there? Because you get a lot of money from Apple Musicc to do so,
so they can attract new paying subscribers? As much as I like Eno, a lot actually,
I can’t understand why he (and others too) makes a deal with a corporate money
greedy institution. Well, I suppose it’s what they call rock ‘n’ roll business.
BIG BLASTS FROM THE PAST – 10 Classic Albums Turning 40 In 2025
Back in time
24 December 2024
Band: NEW ORDER
Album: Low Life
Their 3rd one,
#7 in the UK.
Melody Maker said: “The album boasts the most articulate sound
since The Cocteaus’ Treasure, elevating depression to ecstasy.”
STREAM
Instagram – All Albums
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Band: THE POGUES
Album: Rum Sodomy & The Lash
2nd LP, #13 in the UK.
The album’s title is taken from a quotation attributed to Winston Churchill:
“Don’t talk to me about naval tradition. It’s nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.”
NME wrote: “A collection of free-ranging stuff to be sure. It’s never
sentimental, it’s rarely polite, and it’s certainly not ordinary.”
STREAM
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Linktree – All Albums
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Artist: TOM WAITS
Album: Rain Dogs
9th LP,
#188 in the US,
#29 in the UK.
The Village Voice wrote: “Waits worked out a unique and identifiable lounge-lizard
sound that suits his status as the poet of America’s non-nine-to-fivers.”
STREAM
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Instagram – All Albums
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Band: THE FALL
Album: This Nation’s Saving Grace
8th longplayer.
AllMusic: “This collection is ample proof of the pure confidence the group had
at this time. The Fall sound mysterious, down-to-earth, and hilarious all at the
same time.”
STREAM
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Instagram – All Albums
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Band: THE CURE
Album: The Head On The Door
6th one, #7 in the UK.
Pitchfork: “Their most focused
pop album. A tight, terrific package.”
STREAM
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Instagram – All Albums
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Artist: BRIAN ENO
Album: Thursday Afternoon
AllMusic: “Thursday Afternoon is an hour-long, uninterrupted ambient piece
created in Eno’s “holographic” compositional style, in which even the most brief
snippet of music is representative of the performance as a whole.”
STREAM
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Instagram – All Albums
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Band: TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS
Album: Southern Accents
Their 6th LP,
#7 in the US.
AllMusic: “An ambitious album, attempting to incorporate touches of soul,
psychedelia, and country into a loose concept about the modern South.”
STREAM
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Linktree – All Albums
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Band: THE CULT
Album: Love
Their second LP,
# in the UK.
AllMusic: “Considering the musical schizophrenia that would plague each
subsequent Cult release, Love just may be the band’s purest moment.”
STREAM
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Instagram – All Albums
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Band: THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN
Album: Psychocandy
NME said: “A great searing citadel of beauty whose wall of noise,
once scaled, offers access to endless vistas of melody and emotion.”
STREAM
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Instagram – All Albums
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Band: HÜSKER DÜ
Album: Flip Your Wig
4th longplayer
#1 Indie charts UK
AllMusic: “Flip Your Wig would be a remarkable record on its own terms, but the fact that it followed New Day Rising by a matter of months and Zen Arcade by just over a year is simply astonishing.”
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Poster This – ROBERT FRIPP & BRIAN ENO – 1975
5 New Sonic Injections To Start WEEK 31
5 to start another week
29 July – 4 August 2024
Artists: DVTR
Who: Swirling pop/rock duo from Montreal, Canada
who make me think of famous veteran Belgian dance
tandem Vive La Fête.
Track: LES OLYMPICS
Daft, madcap and totally blistering rocket to energize
all athletes involved in the Olympics 2024 in Paris.
Get on your horse, people!
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Artist: BRIAN ENO (full name: Brian Peter George Jean-Baptiste de la Salle Eno
Who: Former glamorous Roxy Music member, lauded producer, solo artist,
busy collaborator.
Track: STIFF
A song originally included on an album My Squelchy Life (1991)
that was actually never released.
It’s a reworked version and part of the soundtrack of
a new generative film about the legend, titled Eno.
Rare chipper tune for the ambient wizard.
Instagram
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Press pic by Eliot Lee Hazel*
Artists: KAREN O and DANGER MOUSE (Brian Joseph Burton)
Who: Yeah Yeah Yeah‘s frontwoman and long-time EBM
musician/producer.
Five years ago, they released collaborative album Lux Prima .
They got back together now for a trippy/poppy
mid-tempo track, called SUPER BREATH.
Instagram
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Artist: SERJ TANKIAN
Who: Frontman/songwriter of
nu-metal act System Of A Down
Track: JUSTICE WILL SHINE ON
New piece of his upcoming solo EP,
‘Foundation‘, which is
due on September 27.
Hell yeah!
Turn it up.
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Bands: SHOW ME THE BODY and ZULU.
Who: American hardcore engines
Track: NATION OF MIND
Cut from their brand new, collaborative EP, named Corpus II EP I (Corpus is the name
of SMTB’s label and collective, and Corpus I is the mixtape that they released in 2017).
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