And let's not forget his four solo albums, which have explored a multitude of musical styles, while pulling in plenty of critical acclaim along the way. One can't deny that it is hard to separate him from his past - especially when the Talking Heads legacy includes 11 hugely influential albums, such as 1982's The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads and the classic 1984 release Stop Making Sense, which was both an album and a tour movie directed by Jonathan Demme.īut come on folks: isn't it time we gave the guy a break? After all, Byrne left Talking Heads more than six years ago and since then he's been incredibly busy developing parallel careers as an artist, photographer, film score composer and figurehead of his own record label, Luaka Bop. Given that Byrne was responsible for fronting the seminal New York new wave band for 16 years, it isn't surprising that public perception still has him stuck firmly in the last decade. Sue Sillitoe does at least some of the talking.Īsk anyone who remembers the music of the 1980s what they think of when they hear the name 'David Byrne' and the chances are they'll give you an impromptu rendition of either 'Road To Nowhere' or 'Once In A Lifetime' - the two Talking Heads songs everyone seems to know.
David Byrne must surely be one of the most individual and iconoclastic musicians of the late 20th century and, six years after leaving Talking Heads, he's still fusing different musical styles and forging new musical alliances.
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