David Byrne
Birthday: 1952-05-14
Place of Birth: Dumbarton, Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK
Biography: David Byrne (/bɜːrn/; born 14 May 1952) is a Scottish-American musician, writer, visual artist, and filmmaker. He was a founding member, principal songwriter, lead singer, and guitarist of the American new wave band Talking Heads. Byrne has released solo recordings and worked with various media, including film, photography, opera, fiction, and non-fiction. He has received an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, a Special Tony Award, and a Golden Globe Award, and he is an inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as part of Talking Heads. Description above from the Wikipedia article David Byrne, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Social! Distance Dance Club
A team of creatives get together to throw the safest possible dance party in the middle of the pande...
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Stop Making Sense
A concert film documenting Talking Heads at the height of their popularity, on tour for their 1983 a...
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True Stories
A small but growing Texas town, filled with strange and musical characters, celebrates its sesquicen...
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Talking Heads: Rock Pop in Concert
Adrian Belew augments the band on this 50-minute performance from the Westfalenhalle, in Dortmund, G...
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Heavy Petting
Celebrities and creatives -- including musician David Byrne, performance artist Spalding Gray, comed...
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Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach: Sessions at West 54th
Meet the match made in pop heaven, when the singer-songwriter and the 1960s hitmaking composer colla...
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Fathers and Songs: Music for Father's Day
Fatherhood has proved a great subject for a variety of artists - some celebratory, some conflicted, ...
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Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The 1970s
A look at "rock and roll" and other pop music based film of the 1970s....
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Paul Simon: Under African Skies
Paul Simon returns to South Africa to explore the incredible journey of his historic Graceland album...
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Dead End Kids
The 1986 film version of the theatrical production "Dead End Kids" by the NYC avant-garde theatre gr...
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Twyla Moves
Interwoven with her storied career and prolific works, Twyla Moves sees legendary choreographer Twyl...
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This Must Be the Place
A bored, retired rock star sets out to find his father's tormentor, an ex-Nazi war criminal who is a...
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The Kitchen Presents: Two Moon July
Two Moon July was a multidisciplinary event that featured experimental video, film, visual art, perf...
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Lou Reed: Rock and Roll Heart
An incredible retracing of the evolution of Reed's remarkable career over three decades. Filled with...
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Talking Heads: Live at Montreux Jazz Festival
Talking Heads perform at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland on July 9, 1982. Originally broad...
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Lulu on the Bridge
A famous jazz saxophonist's life is forever changed after he is accidentally shot....
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Between the Teeth
Former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne performs with his band 10 Car Pile-Up at the Count Basie T...
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Talking Heads: Storytelling Giant
A compilation of ten music videos produced by Talking Heads during the 1980s. The videos are linked ...
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The Making of True Stories
The making of a film about a bunch of people in Virgil, Texas....
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The Man Who Bottled Clouds
A host of personalities reminisce about the life and work of songwriter, lawyer, and congressman Hum...
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Ride, Rise, Roar
David Byrne is a visual artist as well as a musician, and ever since his early days as a member of T...
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Talking Heads: The Name of this Programme is Once In A Lifetime
In 1984, David Byrne put together a TV special on the Talking Heads for U.K. TV’s Channel 4, a 68-mi...
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Fabricating Tom Zé
The life and work of one of the most controversial Brazilian musicians, having as its backdrop Tom Z...
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Beyond Ipanema
This documentary from filmmaker Guto Barra takes you beyond the 1960s bossa nova hit "The Girl from ...
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Tori Amos: Sessions at West 54th
Tori Amos performs. Her set includes "iieee," "Past the Mission," "Caught a Lite Sneeze" and "The Wa...
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The Pogues Live at the Town and Country
The Pogues playing on St. Patrick's Day in London's Town and Country serves to remind fans why we lo...
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Talking Heads - Chronology
Chronology pulls together live performances from across Talking Heads' career. It starts with their ...
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Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall
Director Spike Lee chronicles Michael Jackson's early rise to fame....
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Lennon or McCartney
550 artists were interviewed over ten years. At some point during those interviews, they were asked ...
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David Byrne - Live from Austin Texas
This show, captured on November 28, 2001, was hailed by critics as Byrne's best work in years, and h...
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Contemporary Color
In the summer of 2015, legendary musician David Byrne staged an event at Brooklyn's Barclays Center ...
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The Blank Generation
The cream of the New York new wave/punk crop, filmed live at CBGB when the scene was just beginning....
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Talking Heads: Live in Rome
On December 18, 1980, the American rock band Talking Heads, with guest guitarist Adrian Belew, deliv...
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Talking Heads: Capitol Theatre
Rare concert footage of Talking Heads performing their legendary Remain in Light set at Passiac, New...
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TV Party
From 1978 to 1982, Glenn O'Brien hosted a New York city public access cable TV show called TV Party....
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Wandering Heart
Wandering Heart intimately follows Caetano from São Paulo to New York and Japan, during the release ...
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10000 Maniacs: MTV Unplugged
MTV Unplugged is a 1993 live album by 10,000 Maniacs. The music was recorded for the MTV Unplugged s...
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25 Years of Punk
Lou Reed narrates this Television special that takes a look back at the beginnings of the punk rock ...
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We're Gonna Die
With her band - Future Wife - and David Byrne, playwright Young Jean Lee takes the stage in a life-a...
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Museum Town
A rural American town suffering economically from factory closures finds an unconventional route to ...
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Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB
An East Village performance space fought against the Bowery homeless shelter who threatened to shut ...
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John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch
John Mulaney and his kid pals tackle existential topics for all ages with catchy songs, comedy sketc...
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Lubbock Lights
From the poetic to the philosphical, the heartbreaking to the hilarious, Lubbock Lights explores the...
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Dancing Barefoot
In this 1995 made-for television biopic, see legendary musician and filmmaker Ivan Kral as he made m...
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Well How Did We Get Here? A Brief History of Talking Heads
A brief history of Talking Heads (and how they got here!)...
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Everything For All Reasons
Fringe even in the fringe world of music of the 70's - Terry Allen is an artist in a class of his ow...
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Decade
Interviews with personalities including John Mellencamp, Spike Lee, Lou Reed, Roseanne Barr, David B...
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David Byrne's American Utopia
A filmed version of David Byrne's Broadway show, a unifying musical celebration that inspires audien...
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Checking Out
When his best friend dies of a heart attack, Ray Macklin becomes a man obsessed with his own mortali...
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By the Ways, a Journey with William Eggleston
French filmmakers Cedric Laty and Vincent Gerard chronicle the life of lensman William Eggleston, em...
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David Byrne: ACL Fest 2018
SETLIST: 01. Here, 02. Lazy, 03. I Zimbra (Talking Heads song), 04. Slippery People (Talking Heads s...
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Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter
This music special is dedicated to dispelling the prejudices associated with the HIV infection and r...
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The Art of Amália
Documentary about the life of Portuguese Fado singer Amalia Rodrigues (1920-1999) with an interview ...
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La Casa del Ritmo: A Film About Los Amigos Invisibles
A compelling story about Grammy-winning Venezuelan funksters Los Amigos Invisibles, from their early...
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FeeLee. History of a Single Label
If it were necessary to describe the history of independent rock music in Russia in one word, then t...
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Hream
A documentary following musician and nurse Doug Hream Blunt on his first world tour....
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David Byrne: Live At Union Chapel
"(Nothing But) Flowers" (Byrne, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison, Tina Weymouth) "And She Was" "Once i...
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Summer of Love
Produced in collaboration with MICA-TV, Summer of Love is a public service announcement produced for...
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Triple-Chaser
When US border agents fired tear gas grenades at civilians in November 2018, photographs showed that...
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NY77: The Coolest Year in Hell
New York City, 1977 - It was a time when the city had fallen into decay, with too few jobs, money, p...
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Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell
Wild Combination is a visually absorbing portrait of the seminal avant-garde composer, singer-songwr...
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New York Rock at the BBC
Celebrating the cream of the New York rock scene, including classic performances from the Ramones, N...
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Beleza Tropical
This half-hour documentary was screened on Channel 4 in 1989. Charlie Gillett is in conversation wit...
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Tom Zé: Liberated Astronaut
The enlightened and extra-terrestrial Brazilian genius-multi-instrumentalist flies to Asturias in 20...
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Dennis Cleveland
A 2002 live performance of Mikel Rouse's Dennis Cleveland, a multimedia opera set entirely on a tele...
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Homo Brasilis: Tom Zé
Delve into the life of Antônio José Santana Martins, known as Tom Zé. Born in Bahia, this scholar of...
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SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
Live from Radio City Music Hall, witness the concert of a lifetime with a star-studded lineup bringi...
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Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
Untold stories behind the culture-defining and newsmaking musical performances, sketches and cameos ...
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Report From L.A.
The television production Two Moon July was a multidisciplinary event that featured experimental vid...
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Monk in Pieces
Visionary composer and performer Meredith Monk overcame hostile critics to become one of the great a...
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We Want the Funk!
Stanley Nelson's syncopated voyage through the history of funk music, from early roots to 1970s urba...
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Untitled Patton/Byrne Piece
Patton Oswalt makes funny faces and David Byrne performs in an unusual place....
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PJ Harvey: Sessions at West 54th
Polly Jean Harvey on the PBS show Sessions at West 54th from 1998, hosted by David Byrne. Includes m...
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The Twits
When the meanest, nastiest villains pull a trick to take over their town, two brave children team up...
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Changing Lanes
Politics and planning collide in the struggle to redesign Brooklyn's notoriously dangerous McGuinnes...
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