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Brian Eno ( EE-no; born Brian Peter George Eno, 15 May 1948) is an English musician, songwriter, record producer, visual artist, sound designer and humanitarian activist. He is best known for his pioneering contributions to ambient and electronic music in the 1970s through to the 1990s, and for producing, recording, and writing works in rock and pop music. A self-described "non-musician", Eno has helped introduce unconventional concepts and approaches to contemporary music. He has been described as one of popular music's most influential and innovative figures. In 2019, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Roxy Music.
Born in Melton, Suffolk, Eno studied painting and experimental music at Ipswich Civic College's art school in the mid-1960s, and then at the Winchester School of Art. He joined the glam band Roxy Music as their keyboardist in 1971, recording two albums with the group: the self-titled 1972 debut and For Your Pleasure (1973) the next year. Eno left the band after their tour promoting For Your Pleasure amidst conflict with bandmate Bryan Ferry. During his time in Roxy Music, he befriended King Crimson's frontman and virtuosic guitarist Robert Fripp, and recorded what would become Eno's first post-Roxy album, the Fripp & Eno credited (No Pussyfooting) (1973). The album was one of the first commercialised non-classical albums to experiment with tape-delay and reel-to-reel electronic looping.
After recording (No Pussyfooting), Eno began to publish and record the first of his solo material. He released the rock-oriented debut Here Come the Warm Jets and its sequel, Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy), in 1974, via Island Records. After recording the album throughout July and August 1974, Eno released the genre-fusing Another Green World (1975) the following year, which has been regarded as one of the greatest albums of all time. Concluding his pop and rock run, he released the Oblique Strategies-inspired album Before and After Science in December 1977 to equalised acclaim. Within this timeframe, Eno began to explore and release minimalist music via classically-constructed electronic composition. Several albums exemplifying this approach include Discreet Music (1975), the Fripp & Eno album Evening Star (1975), the Moebius-Roedelius collaborated Cluster & Eno (1977) and After the Heat (1978), and the EG-released Music for Films (1978). The minimalist approach to his non-rock albums was made influentially evident on his solo material, especially Another Green World and Before and After Science.
During 1978, Eno recorded bits of electronic music intended to be both compositive-friendly and "as ignorable as possible". The result was the start of the Ambient series, particularly Ambient 1: Music for Airports (1979). The album is credited with coining the term "ambient music", and was called the greatest in the genre's history by Pitchfork. Afterward, he recorded and released the second part with Harold Budd, The Plateaux of Mirror (1980). After producing the Laraaji-released third installment Day of Radiance (1980), Eno released the fourth installment, On Land; Like Music for Airports being the centerpiece behind the development of ambient music, On Land became one of the earliest known commercial albums of the dark ambient subgenre. Eno, along with his brother Roger and Daniel Lanois, released Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks (1983), the ambient-driven soundtrack of the delayed NASA film For All Mankind (1989).
Eno has been a producer and occasional backing musician for several artists since the start of his solo career. David Bowie, an admirer of Eno's work, began to include Eno in his production lineup in Berlin. Those recorded in Berlin: Low (1977), "Heroes" (1977) (which also featured Robert Fripp), and Lodger (1979), became some of Bowie's most acclaimed material (especially Low and "Heroes"). Eno became the producer behind Talking Heads' albums in 1978, proucing More Songs About Buildings and Food (1978), Fear of Music (1979) and Remain in Light (1980); the latter has been called one of the greatest albums of all time. The duo of him and Daniel Lanois became U2's key producers, notably producing The Unforgettable Fire (1984), The Joshua Tree (1987), and Achtung Baby (1991). He became a producer and writer for Coldplay in 2007, producing their album Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends (2008) and co-writing most of Mylo Xyloto (2011).
Besides Bowie, the Heads and U2, Eno's repertoire since 1974 has included the likes of John Cale, Devo, Peter Gabriel and Genesis, David Byrne, Slowdive, James, Laurie Anderson, Robert Wyatt, Grace Jones, Karl Hyde, and Fred Again. An advocate for humanitarian causes, Eno writes on a variety of subjects and is a founding member of the Long Now Foundation. His modern political activism has also included awareness of the conditions in the Gaza Strip before and during the Gaza war and genocide, climate crisis awareness, opposing the Conservative Party and Brexit, and advocating for freedom for Julian Assange. In September 2025, he signed an open pledge with the Film Workers for Palestine organisation, pledging not to work with Israeli film institutions "that are implicated in [the] genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people."
🤝 Collaborations (132)
Genius ↗MusicBrainz credits combined with Genius song credits from top 15 tracks
Brian Eno has 132 credited collaborators on IMUDB — 14 featured, 2 producer, 5 bandmates, 48 production & engineering, 15 instrumentalists, 48 other. Active 1948–present.
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🎵 Top Tracks popularity ranked · Genius
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⭐ Known For
Apollo
▶ 9,057,326
Another Green World
▶ 9,263,864
Small Craft on a Milk Sea
▶ 3,157,396
Before and After Science
▶ 4,484,109
Here Come the Warm Jets
▶ 5,115,649
Another Green World (2004 remaster)
▶ 2,366,049
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High Life
2014
Someday World
2014
LUX
2012
Drums Between the Bells
2011
Small Craft on a Milk Sea
2010
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