Man Out Of Time: Brian Eno
Don Watson, Spin, May 1989
"IS THIS 1962 OR 20 YEARS ON?" asked the sleeve notes of the first Roxy Music LP, the record that introduced Brian Eno to the world as a decadent androgyne in shoulder-padded leopard skin. It was, in fact – as the abundance of eyeshadow and over-defined cheekbones attested – 1972.
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