Brian Eno

From an interview of his interview with the San Francisco Chronicle:. She was inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame in 2001. Brian Eno is also responsible for the start-up sound to the Windows 95 operating system (which he created on his Apple Macintosh). In 1986 the Michigan Legislature declared Aretha Franklin's voice to be a precious natural resource. British 1990s band The Warm Jets were named after Eno's 1973 album. Aretha Franklin was sued for breach of contract in 1984 when she was unable to open in the Broadway musical "Sing, Mahalia, Sing," mainly because of her phobia of flying. The band A Certain Ratio took their name from the lyrics of Eno's song "The True Wheel" (on Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)). She lives today in Detroit.

His younger brother, Roger Eno is also a musician, who combines ambient styles with classical music instruments on some of his albums. The affair made her guard her private life even more jealously and she gave no interviews for several years after that. He was also the provider of music for Robert Sheckley's In the Land of Clear Colours, a narrated story with music originally published by a small art gallery in Spain. A Time Magazine cover story in 1968 led to a lawsuit from Ted White over allegations that he had roughed her up in public. Another was his collaboration with artist Russell Mills on the book More Dark Than Shark. The marriage ended in 1969 and she has always refused to answer questions about it. One is the set of "Oblique Strategies" cards that he produced in the mid-70s, which was described as "100 Worthwhile Dilemmas" and intended as guides to shaking up the mind in the process of producing artistic endeavors. She married Ted White in 1962 and he became her manager during her years with Columbia Records.

Eno has also been active in other artistic genres, producing videos for gallery display and collaborating with visual artists in other endeavors. Most critics dismiss her post-Atlantic material as far inferior to the legendary recordings of the mid to late sixties. In 1996 Brian Eno, and others, started the Long Now Foundation to educate the public into thinking about the very long term future of society. Brian Eno is also a columnist for the British newspaper, The Observer. Her most notable 1980s hit was the dance song Freeway of Love, which charted in 1985. At this time he was also active in the Fluxus movement and his work with the Portsmouth Sinfonia came out of this. Despite working with artists of the stature of Curtis Mayfield, popularity and critical success waned during the mid to late 1970s and the 1980s, though she scored several hits, often with partners (such as Luther Vandross). Works released included early albums by John Adams, Michael Nyman, Gavin Bryars (the famous The Sinking of the Titanic), John Cage, and others. Wexler had now left Atlantic and the partnership was over.

Only 10 albums were released. She returned to working with Wexler, but her last Atlantic LP You was released in 1976. Eno started the Obscure label in Britain in the early 70s to release works by less-known composers. A partnership with Quincy Jones led to a disappointing album in 1973 You. But it still produced a standout track "Angel", written by her sister Carolyn which became a soul classic. He is an innovator across many fields of music and recently he has collaborated on the development of the Koan algorithmic music generator. In the early 1970s, her music mellowed slightly, though losing nothing of its power, and she continued the hugely successful relationship with Wexler and Mardin while beginning to take a greater role in producing her work. He won the best producer award at the 1994 and 1996 BRIT awards. After the R&B category was added to the Grammy Awards in 1968, she was virtually unchallenged, winning eight successive awards for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance; she later added three more Grammies in this category in the 1980s.

He has contributed to albums by artists as varied as Nico, Robert Calvert, Genesis, Edikanfo, and Zvuki Mu. Among her most successful hit singles from this era were "Chain of Fools", "You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman", "Think", "Baby I Love You", "The House That Jack Built", and "Respect", a cover of an Otis Redding single which became her signature song. Eno has acted as a producer for a number of bands, including Talking Heads, U2, Devo, and James. Surprisingly she never made it to number one in the UK pop charts - the best result being a number four with her version of Burt Bacharach's "I Say a Little Prayer" in 1968. These tapes were later used as backgrounds in some of his collaborations with Robert Fripp, and the methodology (not entirely original with Eno) was used by Fripp (on his Frippertronics albums) and others. She released numerous Top Ten hits in the late 1960s and early 1970s, dabbling in gospel music, blues music, pop music, psychedelic music and rock and roll, including notable covers of songs by The Beatles ("Eleanor Rigby"), The Band ("The Weight"), Simon & Garfunkel ("Bridge Over Troubled Water"), Sam Cooke and The Drifters. Live at Fillmore West and Amazing Grace were two of her most influential full-length releases, the latter a double LP of live gospel music recorded in a Los Angeles Baptist church. Side 1 consisted of a tape loop system for generating music from relative sparse input. Franklin said herself of this period, "When I went to Atlantic, they just sat me down at the piano and the hits started coming.".

The second side consisted of several versions of Pachelbel's canon to which various algorithmic transformations have been applied, rendering it almost unrecognisable. By the late 1960s, Franklin had earned the nickname "The Queen of Soul", having become an internationally famous artist and a symbol of pride for the African American community. In 1975, Eno released Discreet Music. After moving to Atlantic Records in 1967, Franklin teamed up with producers Jerry Wexler and Arif Mardin, resulting in some of the most influential R&B recordings of the 1960s, including "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)", a much more soulful and impassioned song than most of her earlier work. Eno has also collaborated with Robert Fripp of King Crimson, John Cale, former member of Velvet Underground, on his trilogy Fear, Slow Dazzle and Helen of Troy, Robert Wyatt on his Shleep CD, with Jon Hassell, with the German duo Cluster, with composer Harold Budd and others. However her greatest and most innovative work was yet to come. Outside, and on the song "I'm Afraid of Americans". In the early 1960s, Franklin had a few popular songs, most notably "Rock-a-bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody." However Columbia really wanted her as a jazz singer and the results never gave full rein to Franklin's talents.

Eno collaborated with David Bowie as a writer and musician on Bowie's influential "Berlin trilogy" of albums, Low, Heroes and Lodger, on Bowie's later album 1. She signed with Columbia Records after being discovered by legendary A&R man John Hammond. He collaborated with David Byrne, formerly of Talking Heads, on My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, which was one of the first albums not associated with hip hop to extensively feature sampling. As a child, Franklin and her sisters, Carolyn and Erma, sang at her father's Detroit-area church and made her first recordings at the age 12. His methods were recognized at the time (mid-70s) as being unique, so much so that on one album he contributed to (Genesis's The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway) he is credited with "Enossification.". On January 3, 1987 she became the first woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. His skill at using "The Studio as a Compositional Tool" (the title of an essay by Eno) led in part to his career as a producer. Aretha Franklin (born March 25, 1942) is a gospel, soul and R&B singer born in Memphis, Tennessee.