Two of my favorite artist heroes are Brian Eno and Frank Zappa, two musicians who first hit the big time about forty years ago. I was first turned onto them in my late teens.

Both became traditional rock stars around the same time, Eno playing with Roxy Music, Zappa with The Mothers Of Invention.

They could have done what most rock stars do: Make a couple of records, get a couple of hits on the radio, spend the next X decades touring, living on a tour bus, playing the same songs night after night to adoring fans in towns in Cleve­land, Chicago, Des Moines, Little Rock …