“This guy stepped out of the ring and said: ‘I’ve done the math and I think this would be better for my city.’”
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David Byrne
David Byrne is an American musician, writer, visual artist, and filmmaker. He was a founding member and the principal songwriter, lead vocalist, and guitarist of the rock band Talking Heads.
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Born 14 May 1952 · Q336640
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I’ve had enough people tell me that it’s not completely typical that I know, oh, OK, to some people this might seem a little odd. But then often I feel like no, I’m just giving you an objective description of what’s in front of me. What’s so odd about that?
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2026· 17 entries
“I’ve had enough people tell me that it’s not completely typical that I know, oh, OK, to some people this might seem a little odd. But then often I feel like no, I’m just giving you an objective description of what’s in front of me. What’s so odd about that?”
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“Or I’ve taken wrong turns and there’s no fixing it. But then you think, well, move on. Don’t worry about it too much. Better to keep the creative muscles moving rather than sitting and waiting for the great stuff to arrive.”
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Reforma: David Byrne: Loco por lo latino
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48 Hills: BIG WEEK: Crash an Indian Wedding Party, SF Bay Popfest, ‘Disastrous!,’ David Byrne…
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247Sports: Commodores ‘feel the Byrne’ on record breaking save
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Mid Hudson News: Letter to the Editor: Byrne’s record shows commitment to constitutional rights, public safety
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RIP.ie: Family Notice of David (Kevin) Byrne (Arklow, Wicklow)
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YouTube: David Byrne - Psycho Killer (Talking Heads) Summer Sonic 2026 - Osaka / Japan
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The Guardian: ‘Ramones had leather jackets when they got spat on. We didn’t!’ David Byrne on touring with Talking Heads and taking advice from Lou Reed
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The Guardian: Post your questions for David Byrne
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Published video “David Byrne, Natalia Lafourcade & Mexican Institute Of Sound - "¿Cuál Es La Razón?"”.
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Published video “David Byrne, Natalia Lafourcade & Mexican Institute Of Sound - "¿Cuál Es La Razón?" (Official Video)”.
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The Guardian: David Byrne review – in life during wartime, this show will restore your faith in humanity
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The Guardian: David Byrne review – hope, humanity and dancing in a superbly paced and choreographed show
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Published video “David Byrne - drivers license (Official Audio)”.
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Byrne released a cover version of Olivia Rodrigo's 2021 song "Drivers License" to celebrate the song's five-year anniversary: Byrne's cover version is the first in a series which will celebrate the five-year anniversary
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2025· 11 entries
Published video “David Byrne - "T Shirt" (Official Video)”.
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Published video “15 mins before showtime…”.
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Released album “The Twits: Soundtrack From the Netflix Film”.
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Published video “David Byrne x Hayley Williams In Conversation (Pt. 2)”.
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Published video “BTS: on top of the @RadioCityMusicHall marquee!”.
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Published video “Back at it! Friday 10/10 & Saturday 10/11 at Radio City Music Hall”.
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Published video “October 6, 2025”.
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Published video “Who Is The Sky? Tour - Radio City Music Hall Night 1”.
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Released album “Who Is the Sky?”.
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The Guardian: David Byrne: Who Is the Sky? review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week
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The Guardian: David Byrne, Little Simz, Jasmine.4.t and more: the best music of autumn 2025
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2024· 1 entry
Byrne released a cover version of Paramore's Talking Heads-inspired 2017 song "Hard Times"
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2023· 2 entries
The stage version of Here Lies Love made its Broadway debut
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Arrived at the Met Gala on a Budnitz single-speed bicycle
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2022· 5 entries
The Guardian: ‘Better late than never’: how Brian Eno and David Byrne finally laid a musical ghost to rest
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Released album “Days in the Wilderness (live 1992)”.
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The Guardian: David Byrne on leaving Spotify and turning 70: ‘I think I am more optimistic now’
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Byrne again collaborated with Mala Gaonkar on another immersive theater production based on his life, "Theater of the Mind" transforming a 15,000 square-foot warehouse in Denver, Colorado
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Co-wrote and provided vocals on the song "This Is a Life" for the original soundtrack to the 2022 film Everything Everywhere All at Once, alongside the film's composers Son Lux and American singer Mitski
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2020· 2 entries
After a 30-year absence, Byrne performed as the musical guest on Saturday Night Live (SNL) with John Mulaney as host
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“I have lived in the States pretty much my whole life, but from my parents and everything, there”
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2019· 1 entry
Released album “American Utopia on Broadway: Original Cast Recording”.
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2018· 3 entries
Released ep ““…The Best Live Show of All Time”*”.
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Released album “American Utopia”.
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Released album “Naked in Denver”.
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2016· 2 entries
Released album “The Remix Collection From Here Lies Love”.
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To co-create Neurosociety, a guided immersive theater performance
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2015· 2 entries
Released album “Glenside PA July 20 1994 FM master”.
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Organized Contemporary Color, two arena concerts in Brooklyn and Toronto, for which he brought in ten musical acts who teamed up with ten color guard groups
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2014· 1 entry
Released album “Here Lies Love: Original Cast Recording”.
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2013· 1 entry
Released ep “Brass Tactics”.
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2012· 5 entries
Released album “Love This Giant”.
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Released album “Live at Carnegie Hall”.
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Released a collaborative album with American singer-songwriter St
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Said that he felt that music was his way of communicating when he could not do it face to face because of his autism
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And 2013, with each performing pieces from their career in the album's distinctive brass band style alongside those composed for the album
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2011· 2 entries
Released album “Ride, Rise, Roar”.
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“s extended play (EP), Strange Weather, collaborating with her on two songs: a cover version of Keren Ann”
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2010· 2 entries
Released album “Here Lies Love”.
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His original artwork was in the exhibition The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina
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2009· 2 entries
Released ep “Everything That Happens Will Happen on This Tour”.
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Also appeared on HIV/AIDS charity album Dark Was the Night for Red Hot Organization
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2008· 6 entries
Released album “Big Love: Hymnal”.
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Released album “Everything That Happens Will Happen Today”.
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Awarded Webby Lifetime Achievement Award (2008).
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Byrne designed a series of bicycle parking racks in the form of image outlines corresponding to the areas in which they were located, such as a dollar sign for Wall Street and an electric guitar in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
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Collaborated with the Brighton Port Authority, composing the music and singing the lyrics for "Toe Jam"
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Byrne released Big Love: Hymnal – his soundtrack to season two of Big Love, which aired in 2007
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2007· 2 entries
Released album “Live From Austin, TX”.
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Provided a cover version of the Fiery Furnaces' song "Ex-Guru" for a compilation to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the founding of Thrill Jockey, a Chicago-based record label
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2006· 2 entries
Byrne released Arboretum, a sketchbook facsimile of his Tree Drawings, published by McSweeney's
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His vocals were featured on "The Heart's a Lonely Hunter" on The Cosmic Game by electronic music duo Thievery Corporation
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2005· 2 entries
And later at the Roundhouse in London in 2009
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Initiated his own Internet radio station, Radio David Byrne
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2004· 2 entries
Released album “Grown Backwards”.
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At New York City's Carnegie Hall (Live at Carnegie Hall)
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2003· 3 entries
Released album “Lead Us Not Into Temptation”.
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Byrne guest starred as himself on a season 14 episode of the animated sitcom, The Simpsons
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Released album “Live at Union Chapel (London)”.
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2002· 2 entries
Byrne co-wrote and provided vocals for "Lazy" by the English house duo X-Press 2, which reached No
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Talking Heads was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, where they reunited to play four tracks: "Psycho Killer", "Burning Down the House", "Life During Wartime", and a cover version of Al Green's 1974 song "Take
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2001· 3 entries
Released album “Look Into the Eyeball”.
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Released album “Live in Nashville”.
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A version of Byrne's single "Like Humans Do", edited to remove its reference to cannabis, was selected by Microsoft as the sample music for Windows XP to demonstrate Windows Media Player
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1999· 2 entries
For Belgian choreographer Wim Vandekeybus's dance company Ultima Vez
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Released album “In Spite of Wishing and Wanting”.
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1997· 4 entries
Released album “The Visible Man”.
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Released album “Feelings”.
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Released album “Sessions at West 54th”.
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Byrne was the host of Sessions at West 54th during its second of three seasons and collaborated with members of Devo and Morcheeba to record the album Feelings
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1994· 5 entries
Released album “No Titles Please”.
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Released album “David Byrne”.
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Released album “Girls on My Mind”.
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Released album “Unplugged + More”.
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Released ep “Songs for Swinging Lovers”.
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1992· 5 entries
Performed with Richard Thompson at St
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Released album “Uh‐oh”.
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Released album “An Acoustic Evening”.
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Released album “Unplugged”.
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Released album “Byrne: High Life for Strings / Moran: Music From the Towers of the Moon / Lurie: Stranger Than Paradise / Torke: Chalk”.
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1991· 2 entries
Released album “The Forest”.
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To record the single "Sax and Violins" and officially broke up in December 1991
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1989· 2 entries
Released album “Rei Momo”.
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And two grandsons, born in 2018 and 2025
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1988· 2 entries
Awarded Academy Award for Best Original Score for The Last Emperor (1988).
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The band went on hiatus during which Byrne launched a solo career and the other members pursued their own projects
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1987· 1 entry
Released album “The Last Emperor: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack”.
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1985· 2 entries
Released album “Music for The Knee Plays”.
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For Robert Wilson's vast five-act opera The Civil Wars: A Tree Is Best Measured When It Is Down
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1982· 1 entry
Byrne met costume designer Adelle Lutz, and they married in 1987
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1981· 6 entries
Released album “Songs From the Broadway Production of “The Catherine Wheel””.
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Released album “My Life in the Bush of Ghosts”.
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Byrne partnered with choreographer Twyla Tharp, scoring music he wrote that appeared on his album The Catherine Wheel for a ballet with the same name, prominently featuring unusual rhythms and lyrics
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Released ep “3 Big Songs”.
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Released album “The Complete Score From the Broadway Production of “The Catherine Wheel””.
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And he dated Twyla Tharp between 1981 and 1982
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1973· 1 entry
And formed a band called the Artistics with fellow RISD student Chris Frantz
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1952· 2 entries
In Dumbarton, Dunbartonshire, Scotland, the elder of two children born to Tom (from Lambhill, Glasgow) and Emma Byrne
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Born 1952-05-14.
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