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“... One​ morning in early spring, I dreamed about Brian Eno’s head. It was night-time in a deserted garden centre. At the entrance a sign proclaimed: ‘Twenty Thousand Brian Enos!’ Row upon row, little plant-pot bulbs of his smiling face, pegged out to the horizon. There was transparent sheeting as a guard against the frost, played about by a shimmer of soft artificial lights ...”

“... since then, but he began appearing everywhere, live or guesting on recordings – with Carla Bley, Brian Eno, Fred Frith and his colleagues in Henry Cow. He was also learning a new bag of tricks: a sort of oral percussion based on breathing, all manner of hands-only drumming, including on a tea tray, fiddling around with keyboards, and returning to the ...”

“... brilliant comedians. The most brilliant thing I saw, better than music hall, was The Life of Brian. Also done by friends of mine. Terry Jones is a very close friend. I’ve played ping-pong with every one of Pythons, except the one who died.GP: You’ve played ping-pong with every famous person.AS: Are you more forehand or backhand in ping-pong?TP: I ...”

“... altering its speed (‘It fucks with the fabric of time,’ he explained) – and, ten days later, Brian Eno, who according to MacDonald was ‘the first person Bowie worked with who could keep up with him’. After two weeks’ recording in France, with many of the musicians having little idea what, if anything, they were working ...”

“... and blues, and beat music were mutating into vying forms, and laying down roots in British cities, Brian Epstein had taken the Beatles over to America, and the Beatles had taken over America. In St Petersburg, on the other hand, youth culture has been left alone to flourish only for the last year or two. A venue-owner in the city recently told me that he has ...”

“... a thousand is in every street.’ Phillips is a lover of games and chance and rules. With Brian Eno – his pupil at Ipswich Art School in the early 1960s – he invented ‘sound tennis’, striking a ball against five pianos with their workings exposed, and scoring according to the sounds produced. In A Humument, Phillips deploys what he calls ...”

“... the kaleidoscope mirror still hanging in the hall at number 7. Froese replies that ‘David Bowie, Brian Eno, Iggy Pop, George Moorse, Friederich Gulda and many other contemporaries glanced at themselves in it.’ For anyone used to London or New York or Paris, property in Berlin is still cheap – but not for those who have always lived ...”

“... nihilism before it destroyed itself in fights over who should be included on a compilation album Brian Eno was trying to make. The tide was turning to New Wave and pop, and money was flooding into the art scene.It’s the most conventional thing she’s done, Gordon has said in interviews, writing a memoir, and this much, at least, is a conventional ...”

“... school and a music press impressed by bold gestures, there remained room for a pop avant-garde. Brian Eno, one of its central figures, was doing some teaching at Watford Art College when he began getting lifts back into London with one of the other tutors. Sometimes there would be a further passenger, a student called Colin Newman. As they drove, the ...”

“... Cardew’s inspiration and leadership in 1969. Among those who passed through the orchestra are Brian Eno, Michael Nyman, Hugh Shrapnel, Howard Skempton and Tilbury himself. A significant number of artists and musicians, some with little musical training and no ability to sight-read, were attracted both by Cardew’s charisma and by his desire to ...”

“... aged. For whatever reason, the more Kraftwerk upgraded, the less relevant they sounded. (See also: Brian Eno.)From all Schütte says about Kraftwerk’s ‘total work’, you’d think the K-bots would be barely distinguishable from the real thing – but instead they look a bit tacky and amateurish: middle-aged, mothballed Thunderbird puppets. As David ...”

“... unconvincingly, it has to be said, as if he were trying primarily to convince himself) by Brian Eno, who claimed his friend was a far-sighted celebrant of some strange new ritual/cultural paradigm. I don’t know that The Age of Bowie even begins to come to terms with the manifold contradictions of Bowie’s ‘legacy’. My own feeling is that ...”