Brian Eno

He is an Evangelical Atheist

Musical career apart, he supports the Long Now Foundation which focuses on educating people about the long-term future of the society. Additionally, he also serves as the columnist for British newspaper The Observer.

Brian Eno was born in Woodbridge, England.

Raised as a Suffolk, he gained his formal education from St Joseph’s College in Ipswich. Later on, he attended Ipswich Art School and Winchester School of Art, graduating from the same in 1969.

Inspired by a lecture by Pete Townshead wherein he learned about the use of tape machines by non-musicians, he took to making music as his chosen profession. He use tape recorder as his first musical instrument.

Cardew's ‘The Great Learning’ was the first released recording for which he played. He was recorded as one of the voices in the recital of The Great Learning Paragraph.

He launched his career professionally as a member of the glam rock band, Roxy Music in 1971. His profile included operating in the mixing desk, processing the sound of the band and singing back vocals.

As time passed he moved on stage with the other band members as a performing member of the group. However, his association with the band did not last long and he left the group in 1973, following argument with the lead band singer.

From 1973 to 1977, he launched himself as a solo artist and came up with four albums, ‘Here Come the Warm Jets’, ‘Taking Tiger Mountain’, ‘Another Green World’ and ‘Before and After Science’.

While ‘Another Green World’ and ‘Before and After Science’ contained instrumental pieces, the album, ‘Taking Tiger Mountain’ included his best-known song, ‘Third Uncle’

In 1972, he along with Robert Fripp employed the Frippertronics, or tape delay system to come up with the album, ‘No Pussyfooting’. Following the success of their debut venture, the duo came up with their second album titled ‘Evening Star’.

He is composer of the six second start up music sound of Windows 95 operating system, The Microsoft Sound.