Brian Eno

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1,303 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Oct 2025 last heard 21 Jul

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The Ezra Klein Show · Best Of: A Breath of Fresh Air With Brian Eno · 21 Jul 2026 podcast

And they were Black American music.

Now, I'd been listening to a lot of black American music because of where I grew up in Suffolk, which had a lot of American airbases.

But it was pop music, doo-wop and stuff like that.

I loved it.

When I heard those recordings, I thought, okay, this is the soil that that stuff grew out of.

And I loved it.

It was such, such rich soil.

I think the second one that I have to name, because it still remains as one of the most moving records to me, is the Velvet Underground's third album, which had the song Pale Blue Eyes.

Beautiful, beautiful record.

Beautifully controversial in many ways because, in fact, I think it was probably without that record I wouldn't have been a pop musician.

I don't know what I would have done.

I'd probably been an art teacher or something.

But that record made me think this is something I could do.

And I think it made a lot of other people think that.

I know so many musicians who say that was the record that really made things happen for me.

Now I've got to do number three.

That means I've only got one choice left.

This is very difficult.

See, so much of the music that has really affected me is religious music, which is funny because I'm sort of an atheist.

But the thing about religious music, I think, that is so special is that it's made by people, and it's made by people for other reasons than, I want to pull a chick, I want to make a lot of money, or I want to dance.

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