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What a randy little bugger
... and one could be forgiven if that is the only opinion of Eno you came away with after reading this book. As the official review cites, the focus is on Eno's life and career almost exclusively up to the mid eighties. The last 25 years are covered in a blur of 80 pages. Nonetheless, Eno is a fascinating little aesthete who succeeds by sheer will, whether or not he knows where that will is headed. His sensibilities are such that he takes paths at a time when he ought to, learning as he goes that he has just accomplished something he did not know how to do. Sworn to never holding a real job, he prepares himself to listen, to assemble, to cut and paste a life that makes for a great read.
Throughout the book, he is commended by his male colleagues for being a great friend, an intuitively brilliant producer, and a genuinely giving and visionary artist. There aren't quite as many accolades listed from his conquests, but this is rock and roll, after all. The otherwise monastic Rupert Freep is brought back down to earth, and for that alone, the book is a worthy peruse. Bowie also comes off with a sense of genuine humanity that makes him even more endearing than what his excesses may have projected.
In the end, you'll have a deeper appreciation of many of the side characters in Eno's professional life, most notably Manzanera and Holger Czukay, and you will be left wondering whether Sheppard was told, like Eno was with "Before and After Science", to just get on with it. It would have been of equal interest to learn how all this accumulated wisdom played out in the latter thinking of one of the Cotswold Gnomes. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Pivot is an experimental rock band from Sydney and Perth, Australia. Pivot are a 3 piece band based in London. Pivot were formed as a purely improvisational 5 piece band in Sydney 1999 by brothers Richard Pike and Laurence Pike. The band spent the subsequent four years developing their sound and working on their debut, with guitarist Richard Pike producing.Pivot released their debut album, Make Me Love You, in August 2005. It was well-regarded, receiving widespread radio support on alternative radio and being nominated for a J Award by national youth broadcaster Triple J. The band added Perth (and now London) electronica artist Dave Miller in late 2005, omitting the old members from their line up and becoming a three piece." ... Read more

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This is a newsletter published by EG Records to promote their artists and new recordings. This issue is from 1981 and has articles on Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, Killing Joke, Bryan Ferry, The Lounge Lizards, and more. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from C: International Contemporary Art, published by C The Visual Arts Foundation on June 22, 2004. The length of the article is 2365 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Long music and the short now: on Rodney Graham's music.
Author: Dave Dyment
Publication: C: International Contemporary Art (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 22, 2004
Publisher: C The Visual Arts Foundation
Issue: 82Page: 26(4)

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This digital document is an article from Proceso, published by Thomson Gale on January 15, 2006. The length of the article is 616 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: "Regresiones".(Reseña de película)
Author: Javier Betancourt
Publication: Proceso (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 15, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Issue: 1524Page: 70(1)

Article Type: Reseña de película

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