On Some Faraway Beach
On sale
4th July 2024
Price: £14.99
FOREWORD BY ALAN WARNER
‘A book that sets new standards for rock biography’ Guardian
Reissued as part of White Rabbit’s Deep Cuts series, On Some Faraway Beach is the first and only ever comprehensive and authoritative biography of Brian Eno, featuring interviews with many of his key collaborators over the years: from Bryan Ferry to David Byrne and Robert Wyatt. First published in 2008, it has been fully revised and updated to cover Eno’s life and creative output since, with brand new material and a new introduction by Alan Warner.
‘This exceptionally well-written biography duly celebrated [Eno’s] great achievements with Roxy, Bowie, Talking Heads and his own solo work in compelling detail’ Uncut
‘[An] honourable, authorised attempt to do justice to a mind-bogglingly restless and prolific subject’ Sunday Times
‘A book that sets new standards for rock biography’ Guardian
Reissued as part of White Rabbit’s Deep Cuts series, On Some Faraway Beach is the first and only ever comprehensive and authoritative biography of Brian Eno, featuring interviews with many of his key collaborators over the years: from Bryan Ferry to David Byrne and Robert Wyatt. First published in 2008, it has been fully revised and updated to cover Eno’s life and creative output since, with brand new material and a new introduction by Alan Warner.
‘This exceptionally well-written biography duly celebrated [Eno’s] great achievements with Roxy, Bowie, Talking Heads and his own solo work in compelling detail’ Uncut
‘[An] honourable, authorised attempt to do justice to a mind-bogglingly restless and prolific subject’ Sunday Times
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Reviews
[An] honourable, authorised attempt to do justice to a mind-bogglingly restless and prolific subject.
David Sheppard's meticulously researched biography...[with] the kind of footnote that make this doorstopper such an engaging read
A vivid, well-observed and absorbing biography replete with relevant context and cultural references
This exceptionally well-written biography duly celebrated [Eno's] great achievements with Roxy, Bowie, Talking Heads and his own solo work in compelling detail.
How do you pin down enigma like Brian Eno? Music journalist David Sheppard makes a valiant stab at it in this lively biography
On Some Faraway Beach provides an extensive introduction to a lifetime of constructive, and very English, pottering.
An accomplished and sprawling biography reflects Eno's scattershot approach to life - all over the place but fascinating just the same.
The 450-page biography (written with the help of the famous piss-taster himself) fairly zips along
Sheppard has corralled the many strands of Eno's hectic creative life into a coherent and highly readable account. On Some Faraway Beach will take some beating as a chronicle of one of popular music's few truly original practitioners.
Music Book of the Fortnight 'Few enigmas are as hard to unravel as Brian Peter George St John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno, but the Q contributor has done a bang-up job with this 450-page tome'
David Sheppard's authorised biography dispels some of the myths surrounding Brian Eno and provides a compelling case for his importance as artist and thinker.
