EP.255 - DAVID BYRNE
Adam talks with American musician, author, director and co-founder of Talking Heads, David Byrne about biking in London and New York, outsider music, songwriting, music videos and memories.
Conversation recorded face-to-face in London on June 10th, 2025
Thanks to Séamus Murphy-Mitchell for additional editing
Podcast illustration by Helen Green
List of song clips used
Psycho Killer - Talking Heads (Live at CBGBs, 1975)
The Good Thing - Talking Heads (from More Songs About Buildings And Food, 1978)
Memories Can't Wait - Talking Heads (from Fear Of Music, 1979)
Once In A Lifetime - Talking Heads (from Remain In Light, 1980)
The Carrier - David Byrne and Brian Eno (from My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts, 1981)
The Red House - David Byrne (from The Catherine Wheel, 1981)
This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) - Talking Heads (from Speaking In Tongues, 1983)
Radio Head - Talking Heads (from True Stories, 1986)
Carnival Eyes - David Byrne (from Rei Momo, 1989)
Who - David Byrne and St Vincent (from Love This Giant, 2012)
In The Future - David Byrne (from The Knee Plays, 1985)
Everybody Laughs - David Byrne (from Who Is The Sky, 2025)
Prisencolinensinainciusol by Adriano Celentano (1973)
Lift Every Voice and Sing - Shooby Taylor (circa 1983)
(I presented a radio documentary about Shooby Taylor, which you can listen to on the BBC website HERE)
Dancing For Money (unfinished outtake) - Talking Heads (from Fear Of Music, 1979, Reissue 2005)
The Big Country - Talking Heads (from More Songs About Buildings and Food, 1978)
Adam and David Byrne, London, June, 2025
RELATED LINKS
DAVID BYRNE - SONGS THAT MAKE ME CRY (DavidByrne.com)
BETTER LATE THAN NEVER - HOW DAVID BYRNE AND BRIAN ENO FINALLY LAID A MUSICAL GHOST TO REST (Guardian article and interview about Byrne and Eno sampling the voice of Lebanese singer Dunya Younes on My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts, unaware that it had not been cleared with her) - 2022 (THE GUARDIAN)
THE MAKING OF ONCE IN A LIFETIME (MORE DARK THAN SHARK WEBSITE)