Authors: David Byrne
Tags: #Science, #History, #Non-Fiction, #Music, #Art
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P – Photo by Anne Billingsley
A – CBGB interior by Joseph O. Holmes
B – Rancid at CBGB by Justin Borucki
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
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
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
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
The charts within this chapter were created from
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
F – Photo by Andrej Krasnansky
C-D – Drawing by David Byrne
G – Photo by Maria Varmazis
H – Drawing by David Byrne
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.
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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.