Music for Airports

As I heard it, the epiphany in Brian Eno's life came when he was hospitalized and unable to adjust a radio playing at a barely audible volume next to his bed. This became the genesis for ambient music and later, music for airports. . . the idea of a background sound over which one has no control, that permeates one's environment, is the concept which generated and supports the notion of "ambient music." Anecdotal evidence says Bowie and Eno lived together in Berlin for a while, doing laundry WISHING THEIR WIVES WOULD JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP.