After more than 50 years, an early demo of Talking Heads hit “Psycho Killer” has surfaced at RISD
The tape of The Artistics, the first band of frontman David Byrne and drummer Chris Frantz, was recorded in a Providence apartment and is now in the RISD Archives.
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11 things we learned from David Byrne’s Desert Island Discs
David Byrne on discovering pop music. 7. He shaved off his beard in an early live performance He was in the throes of making music with a friend, and visual art, and getting into European films wh ...
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David Byrne apologises for wearing blackface in 1984
Talking Heads frontman David Byrne has apologised for a video in which he impersonates people of colour using black and brownface. The promotional video for 1984's concert film Stop Making Sense ...
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David Byrne: I’m determined to fight censorship risk in theatre
David Byrne has claimed Britain is at risk of a “very censorious artistic culture”, where theatres are too scared to stage challenging work. The artistic director of the Royal Court Theatre in ...