Roxy Music: "A Flight of Fantasy" Article (1973)

Eno’s A Flight of Fantasy, a one-page article in New Musical Express magazine, February 3, 1973.

ENO'S PLAYBOY bachelor flat in mystical Maida Vale possesses a decor that is God's own gift to a journalist caught for a good opening paragraph.

Take the music room, festooned with all manner of bizarre technological innovations - keyboard instruments, sprawling tape equipment and such-like.

The walls are decorated with objets d'art as diverse as the cover of a True Hollywood Confessions mag, a grim article on a child-killer and a series of outtake shots of Kari-Ann posing for that legendary first Roxy album cover.

Directly adjacent to all this hangs the maestro's current fave stage costume - a rather remarkable black jacket embellished with garishly coloured peacock feathers pointing out in all directions (see picture).

I hesitate to further describe the oddities to be found in other rooms. What was the sponge frozen for posterity in a jar doing in the fridge? And those ducks on the wall? No matter.

I braced myself and left the lounge where I had been soothed by the music of (I think) Chopin coming from the radio and stepped out, determined to discover just what makes this man tick.

I motioned toward the music room where I found Eno - Bryan Eno is his full and real name - deep at work.

An easy smile spread across his gaunt features as he acknowledged my appearance.