David Byrne on 40 Years of 'Stop Making Sense'

大卫·伯恩 (David Byrne) 谈《不再有意义》40 年

Fresh Air

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2024-07-05

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For the 40th anniversary of Talking Heads' masterpiece concert film, Stop Making Sense, A24 remastered and rereleased the movie, bringing it to new audiences and longtime fans. Talking Heads frontman David Byrne returns to Fresh Air to speak with Terry Gross about songwriting, dancing, and constructing the big suit. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
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  • This is FRESH AIR.

  • I'm Terry Gross.

  • Today we're featuring the interview I recorded with David Byrne last fall, founding member of the band Talking Heads, one of the seminal bands of the punk new wave period of the seventies.

  • They werent exactly punk, but they werent like any band that came before them.

  • They recorded eight albums between 1977 and 1988 when they stopped playing together.

  • When we spoke last fall, the 40th anniversary restored edition of their concert film stop making Sense had just been released with a remastered soundtrack.

  • Many music critics and fans consider it among the best concert films ever made of.

  • Byrne went on to record solo albums, collaborate on experimental theater pieces with Robert Wilson and Spaulding Gray, and a ballet with choreographer Twyla Tharp.

  • He still has the record label he founded in 1988, Lwac a Bop.

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  • He won an Oscar as one of the composers of the score for the Bertolucci film the Last Emperor and was nominated for one for the song he co wrote with Mitsky and son Lux for the 2022 film Everything everywhere all at once.

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