Brian Eno Remembers David Bowie, Says They Had Been Discussing Working Together Again

"David's death came as a complete surprise, as did nearly everything else about him. I feel a huge gap now."

By
Zoe Camp
 on January 11, 2016 at 11:16 a.m. EST

Brian Eno Remembers David Bowie, Says They Had Been Discussing Working Together Again

Brian Eno photo by Michiko Nakao

Following the announcement of David Bowie's death this morning, artists from across the world have been paying tribute to the late icon, including many who worked with Bowie during his long career.

Brian Eno was a longtime Bowie collaborator, making albums like Low, "Heroes", and Lodger together. In a statement posted by the BBC, Eno reflects on his friendship with Bowie, and reveals that the two had recently discussed revisiting his 1995 LP Outside (which featured production from Eno) and "taking it somewhere new." Read his entire statement below.

David's death came as a complete surprise, as did nearly everything else about him. I feel a huge gap now.

We knew each other for over 40 years, in a friendship that was always tinged by echoes of Pete and Dud. Over the last few years - with him living in New York and me in London - our connection was by email. We signed off with invented names: some of his were mr showbiz, milton keynes, rhoda borrocks and the duke of ear.

About a year ago we started talking about Outside - the last album we worked on together. We both liked that album a lot and felt that it had fallen through the cracks. We talked about revisiting it, taking it somewhere new. I was looking forward to that.

I received an email from him seven days ago. It was as funny as always, and as surreal, looping through word games and allusions and all the usual stuff we did. It ended with this sentence: 'Thank you for our good times, brian. they will never rot'. And it was signed 'Dawn'.

I realise now he was saying goodbye.


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