Deep Blue Day
Pedal steel floating in space, written for a moon-landing film and immortalized by Trainspotting's worst toilet in Scotland.
Brian Eno, from Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks (1983)
- Written by
- Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois, Roger Eno
- Released
- 1983
- Length
- 3:53
- Album
- Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks
Deep Blue Day is one of three pieces on Apollo built around Daniel Lanois's pedal steel, a nod to the country tapes the astronauts took to the moon; the original sleeve credits Eno and Lanois, later releases add Roger Eno. It was the B-side of a 1983 promotional single and was meant to accompany NASA footage in For All Mankind.
Its fame came from Danny Boyle's Trainspotting (1996), where it plays as Renton dives into the worst toilet in Scotland and swims through clear blue water after his suppositories; the soundtrack album went triple platinum in Britain. Boyle said he used the album so often that Eno eventually wrote to remind him he had done other things. The upload in the hypersongs web is the 2019 Abbey Road remaster.
More songs by Brian Eno
By This River, Help Me Somebody, The Pearl
Sources
- Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks, Wikipedia
- Trainspotting (soundtrack), Wikipedia
- Icebreaker with BJ Cole: Apollo, Prog (2012-07-18)