by geeta on June 22, 2011

Rare and wonderful footage of Brian Eno in the 1970s, soundtracked by “King’s Lead Hat” and interspersed with paintings by Russell Mills from the book More Dark than Shark. It’s a commercial, of sorts, that originally aired on British TV, for the 1986 compilation More Blank than Frank:

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Tom June 28, 2011 at 8:20 am

Small correction: it wasn’t a commercial, it was a short sequence on Channel 4′s music programme “The Tube”, leading up to a commercial break. After the break there was an interview with Brian.

You can see it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmuYxjIIF1c

The source of the archive footage of Eno was Alfi Sinniger’s sadly unavailable film “ENO”.

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