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David Byrne

April 2024

  • Talking Heads’ frontman, David Byrne, in 1981

    Ranked
    Paranoia and polyrhythms: Talking Heads’ greatest songs – ranked!

    As an all-star version of 1984’s Stop Making Sense is released, we run down the band’s best tracks, from the beautiful Dream Operator to the existential crisis of Once in a Lifetime

November 2023

  • ‘I’m not trying to be the best. I just want it to be magic’ … Wally Badarou

    ‘Mick Jagger was surprisingly hard-working’: the all-star life of synth whiz Wally Badarou

    His reputation for futurist pop got him work with everyone from Grace Jones and Talking Heads to Foreigner – now the French keyboardist is reissuing a soundtrack for a yoga DVD that became a Balearic classic

September 2023

  • The songs are dynamic and compelling … David Byrne and Tina Weymouth in Stop Making Sense.

    Stop Making Sense review – Demme’s Talking Heads doc still burning down the house

    The energy of Jonathan Demme’s 1984 film defies categorisation, and David Byrne in the ‘Big Suit’ is the Chuck Berry of new wave art-rock

July 2023

  • Arielle Jacobs (Imelda Marcos), and the cast of Here Lies Love

    Here Lies Love review – Imelda Marcos pop musical shines on Broadway

    David Byrne and Fatboy Slim’s disco-infused extravaganza turns the theatre into a dance floor with thrilling results

January 2023

  • ‘There’s a silly sexuality to them’ … (L-R) Fred Schneider, Kate Pierson, Ricky Wilson, Keith Strickland and Cindy Wilson.

    Famous fans say farewell to the B-52’s: ‘They got me to question my own prejudices’

    After 46 years, the Athens originals are taking off for good later this year. David Byrne, Boy George and more pay tribute to one of the most unusual pop bands ever

November 2022

  • The Staples Jr Singers … (from left) ARC Brown, Annie Brown Caldwell and Edward Brown.

    Gospel trailblazers the Staples Jr Singers: ‘We were singing about all the hardship and hurt’

    Nearly 50 years since their only album was recorded, the group are achieving international acclaim thanks to a renewed interest in a music that speaks to something more than just a love of the Lord

August 2022

  • David Byrne in the studio with Brian Eno in the early 80s

    ‘Better late than never’: how Brian Eno and David Byrne finally laid a musical ghost to rest

    When the pair sampled Lebanese singer Dunya Younes for their groundbreaking album My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, they assumed the original recording was cleared. Four decades on they all meet up to find out the real story

March 2022

  • DAVID BYRNE

    David Byrne on leaving Spotify and turning 70: ‘I think I am more optimistic now’

    Talking Heads frontman speaks about his new song with Australian musician Montaigne, the bravery of Taylor Swift and why he feels hopeful for the future

February 2022

  • David Byrne, Yoko Ono and Japanese Breakfast.

    Various artists: Ocean Child: Songs of Yoko Ono review – tribute to brilliance of rock icon’s music

    Death Cab for Cutie, David Byrne and the Flaming Lips are among artists reworking Ono’s strange sound and outsider songs into something more palatable

June 2021

  • Alexis Petridis

    Jon Hassell: radical musician who studied with Stockhausen and worked with Eno

    Alexis Petridis
    The influential experimental US composer ‘celebrated and dignified’ his ‘fourth world’ sources and contributed to albums by Brian Eno and Talking Heads

December 2020

  • David Byrne, right, and band in American Utopia.

    American Utopia review – David Byrne and Spike Lee burn down the house

  • David Byrne shot at Langham Hotel

    Observer New Review Q&A
    David Byrne: 'Spike Lee and I have a lot in common'

October 2020

  • ‘I see new chicanery every day’ … David Byrne.

    David Byrne's lockdown despair: 'I'd wake up and ask – What am I doing today and why?'

    The Talking Heads frontman has taken up drawing to get him through the pandemic – and face down his fears. He talks us through his favourites, from Nature Man to Balanced Life

September 2020

  • This image released by the Toronto Film Festival shows David Byrne in a scene from “David Byrne’s American Utopia,” a documentary of Byrne’s concert musical, directed by Spike Lee. The film opened the Toronto Film Festival on Thursday, Sept. 10. (Toronto Film Festival via AP)

    First look review
    David Byrne's American Utopia review – Spike Lee's thrilling treat for fans

  • David Byrne said: ‘It’s like looking in a mirror and seeing someone else – you’re not, or were not, the person you thought you were.’

    David Byrne apologizes for donning blackface in 1984 video

July 2020

  • Movie projector

    Toronto film festival announces line-up with Mark Wahlberg drama premiering

  • Jon Hassell

    Jon Hassell, music's great globetrotter: 'Be more aware of the rest of the world!'

  • Chris Frantz: ‘We were post-punk before punk even happened.’

    Chris Frantz: 'If you knew David Byrne, you would not be jealous of him'

  • Talking Heads Posed In Amsterdam<br>AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS: JUNE 01: Talking Heads posed in Amsterdam, Netherlands in June 1977. L-R Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth, David Byrne, Jerry Harrison (Photo by Gijsbert Hanekroot/Redferns)

    Observer book of the week
    Remain in Love by Chris Frantz review – once in a lifetime with Talking Heads

October 2019

  • American Utopia

    American Utopia review: David Byrne starts making sense

    The country is far from perfect, a Broadway audience will not chant the names of black Americans killed by police. The singer presses on
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