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i l l u s t r a t i o n c r e d i t s

Chapter One

P – Photo by Anne Billingsley

A – CBGB interior by Joseph O. Holmes

B – Rancid at CBGB by Justin Borucki

Chapter Three

C – Tootsies Orchid Lounge “House Band” by Henry

B – Illustration from
The Case of the Cottingley Fairies

Horenstein

by Joe Cooper

D – Tootsies Orchid Lounge “Last Call” by Henry

C – Courtesy of Georg Neumann GmbH

Horenstein

D – Courtesy of Pavek Museum of Broadcasting

E – Photo by Eric Ashford, courtesy of
Ethnomusicology

E – Photo from the Museum of Making Music

Review

F – Ely Cathedral by Walt Bistline, 2010

Chapter Four

G – Arnstadt Church by Piet Bron

A –Early 1970’s transister vocoder custom built and

H – Photo by Marianne Haller, courtesy of

used by the pop duo Kraftwerk.

Bundesmobilienverwaltung, Hofmobiliendepot,

B – Courtesy of David Byrne

Möbel Museum Wien

I – Hall of Mirrors by Jenson Z. Yu

Chapter Five

J – La Scala by Blake Hooper, Hooper & Co. Photography

A-B – Courtesy of Record Plant Remote

L – Carnegie Hall by Peter Borg, Westminster Choir

C-D – Photos by Hugh Brown

College of Rider University

E – Electric Boogaloos, courtesy of Vicki Stavrinos

M – Buddy Bolden’s band, from the personal collection

F-J – Courtesy of David Byrne

of trombonist Willie Cornish

K – Ad originally appeared in the
New York Times

O – Shure Brothers model 55S microphone by John

Schneider

Chapter Six

P – Graetz Melodia radio

A – Courtesy of Bibliothèque nationale de France

Q – WE LOVE Sundays, at Space, Ibiza, by Harry Sprout

B – Kente Prestige Cloth, on display at The British

R – Roseland Ballroom by Joe Conzo

Museum, London

S – Photo by Eric W. Beasman

D – Courtesy of David Byrne

T – Photo by Olaf Mooij

V – Scarlet Tanager by Joe Thompson

Chapter Seven

The charts within this chapter were created from

Chapter Two

statistics and figures provided by the following

A – Courtesy of David Byrne

publications:

B – Photo by Patti Kane

p. 209: Recording Industry Association of America

D – Photo by Barbara A. Botdorf

p. 220, 226, 233:
Wired
Magazine

E – Courtesy of The Estate of Karlheniz Weinberger,

p. 227, 231, 242, 243: RZO Music Ltd.

care of Patrik Schelder, Zurich, Switzerland.

Courtesy of Artist Management, New York

Chapter Eight

F – Photo by Andrej Krasnansky

C-D – Drawing by David Byrne

G – Photo by Maria Varmazis

H – Drawing by David Byrne

Chapter Nine

I – Photo by Rick Wezenaar Photography,

C – Originally printed in
Life
magazine

http://www.wezenaar.org

D – Originally printed in the
New York Times

K – Robert Wilson performance by Stephanie Berger

H – Photo by Monika Rittershaus

L – Courtesy of Hiro

I – Photo by Claudia Uribe

M – Photo by Clayton Call

K – Carlinhos Brown from
A Tarde Online

N – Photo by Tony Orlando

O – Hoola Hoope Dancer, Sufjan’s BQE show, by

Lawrence Fung

Uncredited images are public domain.

DAV I D BY R N E | 345

a b o u t t h e a u t h o r

a b o u t t h e a u t h o r

Known as the force behind Talking Heads and later as creator of the highly

regarded record-label Luaka Bop, David Byrne also works as a photographer,

film director, author, and solo artist; he has published and exhibited visual art for more than a decade. Among Byrne’s more recent works are “Playing

the Building,” an interactive sound installation at New York’s Battery Mari-

time Building and London’s Roundhouse;
Everything That Happens Will Hap-

pen Today
, Byrne’s first collaboration with co-writer Brian Eno since 1981’s
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
; a series of unique bike racks installed throughout New York City in conjunction with the New York City Department of

Transportation; and
Bicycle Diaries
, a chronicle of his travels on his bicycle.

Here Lies Love
, his song cycle in collaboration with Fatboy Slim about the life of Imelda Marcos will make its theatrical debut at New York’s Public Theater in the spring of 2013.

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