On Some Faraway Beach: The Life and Times of Brian Eno
by David Sheppard
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From an idiosyncratic childhood in a sleepy British market town to the top of the international pop charts, this first critical examination of the life of Brian Eno charts a lengthy and colorful journey. Interviews with many key collaborators?such as David Byrne, Robert Wyatt, John Cale, Bryan Ferry, and Gavin Bryars?along with input from Brian and his wife, Anthea, illuminate the man and his ideas and how he retained an edge and maintained independence. This sonic alchemist to the stars has show more contributed to the most challenging and critically revered w show lessTags
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I am convinced that Eno will be remembered as one of the great composers of the 20th century, and a definitive biography of him is more than welcome. On the other hand, this is not a terribly readable book; it's about a hundred pages too long, and goes into too meticulous detail on some tangents which could have been covered adequately in a paragraph. Most of Eno's career for the past twenty years or so has been pretty abstruse, and the book usually doesn't have the admittedly difficut gift of making his output more interesting to read about than it is to listen to.
Good insight into Eno's music - made me go back to listen to some overlooked albums and discover a couple of new ones. Fairly dismissive of his efforts in fields other than music. Tails off towards the end, arguably reflecting the waning of Eno's creativity in later years.
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Common Knowledge
- Original publication date
- 2008
- People/Characters
- Brian Eno
Classifications
- Genres
- Music, Biography & Memoir, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 782.42166092 — Arts & recreation Music Vocal Music, Singing Secular forms of vocal music Songs General principles and musical forms Traditions of secular songs {genres} Rock songs modified standard subdivisions History, geographic treatment, biography Biography
- LCC
- ML410 .E58 .S54 — Music Literature on music Literature on music History and criticism Biography
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- Reviews
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- Rating
- (3.85)
- Languages
- English, Italian
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 9
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