The Untold Truth Of David Byrne

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With his band Talking Heads, David Byrne helped define the art rock genre for the 1970s and '80s, in part because of his eccentricities as a frontman. With his oversized suits, experimental vocals, oddball dancing and sometimes difficult attitude, he's one of a kind.
He's branched out well beyond music, working in epistemology, writing, bicycle design, podcasting and, most recently, on Broadway. The Scotland-born singer clearly has a wide array of interests. His TED Talk about shape, space and creativity also touches on West African music, Bach and birds.
Is it possible to get to the center of this multilayered artist? It helps to know his background. Here's the untold truth of David Byrne.
#DavidByrne #TalkingHeads #bands
Unique voice | 0:00
Early musical pursuits | 1:21
Kicked out of art school | 2:37
Not just a musician | 3:44
Bad bandmate | 4:49
Byrne and Eno | 6:02
Film work | 7:02
Collaborations and covers | 8:20
What's with the big suits? | 9:45
The story behind American Utopia | 10:39
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@GrungeHQ 3 жыл бұрын

What do you think about David Byrne?

@Mediocre_JT 3 жыл бұрын

He's a psycho killer, but he makes some great tunes.

@hedleykerr3564 3 жыл бұрын

He also did a movie with Sean Penn and Francis Mcdermott " This Must Be the Place"!

@billlaw4108 3 жыл бұрын

👍

@Veronica_Boer 3 жыл бұрын

Love at first hearing, then loved at first sight in the 80’s video Burning Down the House

@darilphillips4949 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent Dude

@crab-dogjones4659 3 жыл бұрын

In his book "How Music Works" he explains that his giant suit was inspired by kabuki theater in Japan where they use similar oversized costumes.

@PaulinaAngel 3 жыл бұрын

Not mentioned in this video is his years of struggle with Asperger's, which he started to admit publicly in 2020, I think this is why he had issues for years with people he collaborated with, his impulsive nature to be in charge and inability to share credit as well as give praise, especially when it came down to his relationship with the other Talking Heads.

@lyleugleman9799 3 жыл бұрын

sadly his diagnosis and acknowledgment of his past transgressions haven’t translated into acceptance and forgiveness from his former bandmates. chris and tina continue to be incredibly ableist towards him, although his relationship with jerry seems to be on good terms

@MikeyAfterDark 3 жыл бұрын

@@lyleugleman9799 you failed to mention the number of times David tried to pull publishing right for songs they fully collaborated on. Matter of fact without their knowledge in the first pressing of Remain in Light it was stated as - Written by David Byrne, Brian Eno and the Talking Heads. Take a read into Chris' book and there's a bit more of the insight and not cadyness of the tale of the end of the band. Most of it was due to David's not wanting to give full publishing and credits, meanwhile, Tina wrote the hook for Psycho Killer because we'll she spent most of her childhood in France and that hook well, speaks for itself. Even leading up to a Netflix series the can was in contention even if arrangements were skewed enough to try to not pay former bandmates and fellow songwriters.

@PaulinaAngel 3 жыл бұрын

@@lyleugleman9799 you can’t really blame Chris and Tina, he did belittle their contributions throughout the years and had ample opportunity to make amends and to acknowledge publicly that they are important to the success of Talking Heads.

@dimetrodonz 2 жыл бұрын

@@MikeyAfterDark None of that gives either of them the right to be outwardly ableist towards Byrne, though. So i'm not sure what your point is.

@Alsatiagent 2 жыл бұрын

@@lyleugleman9799 They have both been undignified and pissy from the day he left the band.

@dianaparker4807 3 жыл бұрын

I worked for him doing his taxes. And he was standing at my desk and I didnt know who he was...and I was rude to him!!! He was so handsome and lovely! I felt like an idiot.

@d.taygray1250 2 ай бұрын

😮

@Guitar6ty 2 жыл бұрын

Creative genius who had a huge influence on the new wave bands of the 1980s and beyond.

@bondalemecovillage6738 3 жыл бұрын

As young surfers living the dream & spending months on end in bali during the 80's we played Talking Heads tapes till they wore out.

@ExMachina70 3 жыл бұрын

Sometimes I wonder about KZfaq's algorithm and have ask "How did I get here?"

@mikewood9514 3 жыл бұрын

Hahahahahaha

@EasyE3939 2 ай бұрын

💯

@kcg6024 Ай бұрын

Underrated comment. Top tier.

@batgurrl 3 жыл бұрын

Talking Heads were like my ‘Grateful Dead’ I saw them whenever they played in NYC which was often. I was heartbroken when they broke up. Stop Making Sense the best concert film of all time, RIP Jonathan Demme

@vampirascoffin870 3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful said!!!!! Agreed!!!! New yorker here!!!!!!

@batgurrl 3 жыл бұрын

@@vampirascoffin870 👍🏻🤝remember how many venues for music there were, both large and small, in the mid 70’s-mid 80’s?. We were blessed but didn’t realize is. We just were excited all the time. We also had all those concerts in Central Park. You were probably at that concert at Forrest Hills (tennis courts) This ain’t no party, this ain’t true no disco This ain’t no fooling around This ain’t no Mudd Club, or C.B.G.B. Ain’t got time for that now ☮️🖖😻

@snafflestuff5428 Жыл бұрын

Loved stop making sense! Was visibly distraught when they then released the completely sh*t album Little Creatures and I completely disowned them at that point

@garyreams8123 Жыл бұрын

The Grateful Dead,...one of the most overrated and boring bands on the planet. The sound of snoring.

@dj-um7el Жыл бұрын

@@garyreams8123THANK YOU!!! That was a terrible comparison. The Talking Heads are INFINITELY better than The Grateful Bore.

@keithshaughnessy1645 Жыл бұрын

I saw him play a show in New York City years ago. My friends and I were milling around outside shooting the breeze after the show when, who else but, David Byrne rides by us on his bicycle.

@Habu2 Жыл бұрын

Yes big bike fan.....

@batgurrl 3 жыл бұрын

Talking Heads are tied with David Bowie as my all time favorite musicians. He is a HERO of mine. He was on an episode of Star Talk - Neil deGrasse Tyson’s old TV show and I saw what a ‘deep thinker’ he was. Thanks so much for doing this❤️

@RaoulDukeSr 3 жыл бұрын

Wow...Scotland to Ontario,makes me even prouder to be Canadian and Scottish, always loved David's amazing artistic merit, his incredible music and beliefs...what a guy !!

@thomasbaskys8610 3 жыл бұрын

Listening to Byrne's music is a good place to get some thinking done. 🎧

@notforgotten2798 3 жыл бұрын

Brilliant. He was 66 when I first had a chance to see him in Indy. Great show..what an entertainer!!

@MrFfuckUp 3 жыл бұрын

Hell yeah, we must have been at the same show at White River State Park. Fantastic concert.

@Buc_Stops_Here 2 ай бұрын

In the Talking Heads interview with CBS and then late night, David Byrne took the lessons he learned from Chris's comments to heart. The amount of change is incredible three years ago. They really have repaired most of the damage done at end of their time together. He now acknowledges the others who contributed to Talking Heads, and actually is a much better person today than he was back in the 1980s. It really is too bad it took him so long to acknowledge others - the Talking Heads paid for it with a greatly shortened time together.

@juliancoquelet2654 3 жыл бұрын

I don't know about you guys, but i feel like Bill Nye and Byrne would be best friends

@robertpalmer4806 3 жыл бұрын

Well Nye is a fraud and a buttplug so...

@marshawalker5273 3 жыл бұрын

I don't know how David feels but I feel like David Byrne & I should b best friends🥰

@oooo-dw7gg 2 жыл бұрын

@@robertpalmer4806 what?

@staghunter2579 2 жыл бұрын

@@oooo-dw7gg I believe he said that he was a buttplug.

@tj921able 3 жыл бұрын

It sounds like he has lived an interesting life. Thank you for sharing this.

@g2macs 2 жыл бұрын

I was amazed to learn he was born not ten miles from my home, yet another musical great exported abroad.

@TheSiggib 3 жыл бұрын

Beee-n a Talking Heads, David Burn fan for many years. He lives his own life and goes his own ways. His thinking chanced my thinking .-) Beee your self!!!

@crafter170 3 жыл бұрын

Scotlands greatest export has always been brains....

@seeker156 3 жыл бұрын

And balls. Can't forget the courage it took for alot of your wold changers. They had balls.

@pointsbeingmade7996 3 жыл бұрын

Proud to have scottish blood

@djquinn11 3 жыл бұрын

And haggis.

@atomictraveller 3 жыл бұрын

witchcraft

@marcappleton2730 3 жыл бұрын

and bairns

@philippesauvie639 3 жыл бұрын

David Byrne is a genius pure and simple. He thinks outside the box and I get that. Wouldn’t surprise me if he is on the autism spectrum and I definitely wouldn’t call it a disorder with him though it’s sometimes hard to be around people that have a brain wired like that.

@baronfyrewhine 2 жыл бұрын

It would surprise me, since there's no such thing.

@SUPRESSOR106 2 жыл бұрын

@@baronfyrewhine No such thing as autism? Care to explain or nah?

@Windwalker88 2 жыл бұрын

@@baronfyrewhine uhm, there is no autism?

@di7787 2 жыл бұрын

From what I understood, he has a form of Asperger's

@beanie2571 Жыл бұрын

@@baronfyrewhine …?

@ebaylistentomusic Жыл бұрын

His book About Music is a masterpiece, should be required reading for every music major.

@williamgeorgefraser 3 жыл бұрын

Amazingly, he was born in Scotland 10 days after me and both of our families moved to Hamilton, Ontario. I may well have gone to school with him.

@eddiew2325 3 жыл бұрын

No offnese but Scotland is not a real country

@williamgeorgefraser 3 жыл бұрын

@@eddiew2325 No offnese taken, whatever that means.

@eddiew2325 3 жыл бұрын

@@williamgeorgefraser I love u

@glanni 2 жыл бұрын

@@eddiew2325 Neither is Ontario.

@cmcc3721 2 жыл бұрын

@@glanni Scotland is definitely on the same list as England and Canada on the list of countries of the world. Ontario and Mid Lothian are also definitely on the list of Provinces / Regions of their respective countries too. Everything else is just hot air. Don't argue with idiots. They'll only drag you down to their level and beat you with experience

@Depression2010 2 жыл бұрын

The bad voice is a great voice.

@Depression2010 2 жыл бұрын

Uniqueness is what sets us apart.

@squeakeththewheel Жыл бұрын

I thought that sameness is what sets us apart.

@garyreams8123 Жыл бұрын

Really? Gee,.....what a deep thought.

@HockyOne Жыл бұрын

It's a crime not to mention his prolific collaboration with Eno on "My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts" from 1980 - one of the most important contribution to the history of modern music. Way ahead of it's time.

@tiaalice6380 3 жыл бұрын

Love talking heads. Hopefully i can see him soon

@garyreams8123 Жыл бұрын

How about the rest of The Talking Heads? Would you like to see them too?

@GPS379 2 жыл бұрын

I didn’t knew who he was till i saw him on Stephen Colbert and now I’m obsessed 🤩

@GVSolo 3 жыл бұрын

Other than his album "Stop Making Sense" I really like his work on the soundtrack of the movie "The Last Emperor".

@christinekoehnen9696 Жыл бұрын

His work is ART.

@billyandrews4728 3 жыл бұрын

Byrne makes people wonder "What could I have done if I'd taken the "road less travelled ?"

@garyreams8123 Жыл бұрын

Gone and or gotten nowhere?

@grummer8537 2 жыл бұрын

Stop making sense the music video is a masterpiece the best video I've ever seen what a cool guy he is just love talking heads

@robertschlesinger1342 3 жыл бұрын

Interesting and worthwhile video.

@Ricodog125 2 ай бұрын

David Byrne is extremely talented. The talking heads absolutely one of my favorites. In the 90s I worked in a technology company with Tina Weymouth cousin Michelle Weymouth.

@hedwigleemans6249 Жыл бұрын

Brilliant and resourceful - unique view on sound - the music doesn’t age at all

@johnrobinson5156 3 жыл бұрын

Was at Pantages ( I think) Theater when Talking Heads filmed Stop Making Sense. Epic

@jamesc7121 3 жыл бұрын

Wow what a treat. Must've been the best show in your life.

@bigbro-rn9mi 3 жыл бұрын

Let the water hold me down

@francus7227 Жыл бұрын

I saw him sing ah capella in Croatian at Bonnaroo in front of 80,000 in 2004. He sings powerfully and well.

@beerye9331 3 жыл бұрын

His dancing still reminds be of drunk uncle

@te9591 3 жыл бұрын

So awesome then?

@57Jimmy 3 жыл бұрын

“BEE!....hic...hic...Ish yat ewe?” Come give unkie uh hug!”😉

@beerye9331 3 жыл бұрын

@@57Jimmy LOL....that's probably how things would go, and repeating the same story every 2 minutes!

@garyreams8123 Жыл бұрын

Actually,....your "drunk uncle" was probably a much better dancer and a lot less contrived and less pretentious than D. Byrne.

@therestingrancor8259 3 жыл бұрын

Well we know where we're going, but we don't know where we've been🎶. Love Talking Heads♥️

@TracyMarie71 3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely love David Byrnes

@homerjones3490 3 жыл бұрын

Saw the Talking Heads over 10 times between '76 and '82. I once shared a toilet with him at the Main Point in Philly in '77 LOL.

@1582len 3 жыл бұрын

Always liked his music

@plastiqbeach7487 3 жыл бұрын

i love david and talking heads sm

@shelleyharris165 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome thanks indeed 🙏😊🤗🌍😎☮️✌️🎵🎶🎼💖🤩😲❤️🤍🕊️🌄😃😂🎵

@franciscofernandez5034 Жыл бұрын

David is to my knowledge a “national treasure “

@mattpatterson6219 2 жыл бұрын

He's out there like Pluto, guess that's what makes he a brilliant entertainer

@drivenhome3257 9 ай бұрын

Love this

@wecandobetter9821 3 жыл бұрын

Love the Talking Heads.

@larrynapier5003 3 жыл бұрын

He was nice to me ! My best friend died and he was at the benefit he was studying me ! I dig the guy !

@Ami483 Жыл бұрын

did he look at your emotions? what was he like

@larrynapier5003 Жыл бұрын

@@Ami483 Very sympathetic

@deborahwhit118 3 жыл бұрын

AWESOMENESS

@ianturton4976 3 жыл бұрын

Fake it until you make it.. And Asperger's actually gave him an advantage..being "weird" gave him the hits. And he seemingly didn't become depressed in the process of making his stuff unlike so many others. I think there were drugs involved to, like LSD, cocaine, etc which likely had a huge influence at times..

@paulhunt4690 Жыл бұрын

Eclectic creative artist.

@Fishstycz Жыл бұрын

Pure genius.

@JK-gm6kk 2 жыл бұрын

God, Talking Heads opening for The Ramones! Don't see many bills that good, these days.

@drebugsita Жыл бұрын

when I went to art school the faculty encouraged us to take risks, that it was the time to experiment, etc. sounds like he really did that. I can't believe he was kicked out. I'm pretty impressed he had the courage and vision to try really out-there ideas (as someone who was pretty conservative in my work). I would like to hear more about his thoughts on art school and his life before dedicating himself to music.

@ghosttownreview1531 6 ай бұрын

At Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle I was also encouraged to take risks, but some of the professors didn't really mean it. I was in a class that involved artists from all the art forms taught at Cornish. We had to develop performance pieces using multiple arts. One of the elements in my performance involved selling a painter as if he was a piece of meat in a butcher shop. The teacher was offended with the subject and gave me a low mark. There was no mention of the quality of the rest of the performance involving the other arts. Oh well. It was a great school and I use everything I learned as a musician to teach to this day.

@IPete.WhichS2MuchN4 3 жыл бұрын

"It's like 60 Minutes on acid."

@sikswitch1334 3 жыл бұрын

Byrne & Peter Gabriel really stretched the whole art/music scene.just my opinion...

@steveculbert4039 3 жыл бұрын

Man, Byrne was a skinny dude.

@phillipradcliffe8037 3 жыл бұрын

Oversized suits were popular in Japan in the early to mid 1980s, and David had a Japanese girlfriend at the time. Just saying...

@YouTube_user3333 6 ай бұрын

This guy is my spirit animal 😆

@EyeLean5280 Жыл бұрын

We saw American Utopia just before the pandemic hit and it was fantastic. If I were sent back in time and given my choice of which cultural event to take advantage of to sustain myself through two years of covid and not going out to crowded spaces, I'd pick American Utopia all over again.

@russellharding3371 Жыл бұрын

I've been a fan of Talking Heads and David Byrne for many years... thanks for this fantastic vid ! It's a pity about what happened to the band, but we've all got to move on, and grow ! Sometimes it's a messy business, like a divorce 😢

@kitrichardson2165 Жыл бұрын

He used to live a couple of miles from me. The high school he went to Waze in Lansdowne, Maryland. It’s in kind of a rundown area actually and the house that was burning down was in Arbutus, Maryland, which is a town I used to live in. I don’t know if his parents are still alive, but his mother used to live in Maryland

@davidnewell9959 3 жыл бұрын

“Close enough But not too far Baby, you know where you are Burning down the house!”

@jakepavlo91 2 жыл бұрын

He's right about art school, they don't really teach you much about anything.

@DavidKing-jx3sg Жыл бұрын

Their 70s stuff is genius most of which is never played on radio... Thank God

@justinamarina8192 Жыл бұрын

Definitely unique!!

@nojuanatall3281 Жыл бұрын

He's creative and quarky. Adrian Belew brought talking heads to a higher level. Live in Rome is the best. So intense compared to stop making sense.

@celiarodriguez2999 3 ай бұрын

On the road to nowhere. One of my favorites

@sarys73 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the info brother

@robtonge5516 3 жыл бұрын

Great video

@firstbornjordan 3 жыл бұрын

"When I have something to say, I say it once, why say it again?"

@afisemenaborevlaka48 3 жыл бұрын

Because we got to get those vaccines into these arms of the hesitant crowd ... come on man.

@trailtreker7002 5 ай бұрын

To sum it all up ....David Byrne ....wanted to project " unpredictableness ' which gives the viewer something to experience over and over. Suites , symmetry , wackiness , and music in the same caliber , results in His Creation , that's intriguing and fun to watch and listen to as well .

@Zatoichi1967 3 жыл бұрын

Same as it ever was....

@batgurrl 3 жыл бұрын

👏👏

@TheBlackSheepDiaries 3 жыл бұрын

This is not my beautiful house..

@hungelbunny67 3 жыл бұрын

Scotland - Canada - Maryland USA... Arbutus Maryland ! So yeah he was a home town boy .

@bitemenow609 Жыл бұрын

Tina said that Gratitude was something that David had. It was just missing from his being.

@jontalbot1 Жыл бұрын

There’s a sort of unofficial club to which he belongs- conscious artist pop icon divas- John Lennon, David Bowie, Nick Cave. Maybe there are others, Captain Beefheart, Joni Mitchell. Not sure about Bob Dylan either. Don’t think they make ‘em anymore.

@moses3762 Жыл бұрын

The big suit was inspired by a trip to Japan. He was told by a local that everything in theatre should bigger than life. Well, yeah. Big suit was born

@stephencarter1497 2 жыл бұрын

3:54 "books on everything from music to epizzmetology" LOLOLOL

@BobC250 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I laughed at that too. Narrater can't say epistemology :o)

@Pauldjreadman 3 жыл бұрын

His career reminds me of the KLF just less mystery.

@j.477 9 ай бұрын

,,, saweyed 'im solo n late 80s,, lovely inDeeDow ...

@yvonnemulder9038 3 жыл бұрын

Genius

@nbnakita3776 Жыл бұрын

So nice looking as a young man as well

@lewcrowley3710 Жыл бұрын

I think all of David Byrne's fans are insane, also his non-fans are insane, As a long time fan. I think I am a fan. Kind of like the music. Kind of like the man.

@stinkypoopoo5616 Жыл бұрын

I feel ya Lew. I feel ya.

@garyreams8123 Жыл бұрын

You "think" that you are a fan? Don''t you know for sure?

@sillavnitram 6 ай бұрын

Love the Man.

@DouglasBull-rk6tv Ай бұрын

Almost all these rockstars and musicians know from a child that's what they want.Its like they are born to play music

@spacesloth6496 2 жыл бұрын

Musicians then had Something to say. They Spoke out there mind What are musicians these days do they have a brain do they stand for something they should speak out for the people the musicians are the real voice of the people not the politicians SpeAk out !!!! You have the mic and the power supported by the music and the power speakers ❤️❤️🦋

@garyreams8123 Жыл бұрын

I love your comments. "They Spoke out there mind"? Perhaps they should speak out "their minds"? "What are musicians these days?" Could they be musicians? What kind of "power speakers" JBL's? Altec Lansing?

@faithsmackaroo9821 2 жыл бұрын

"same as it ever was"

@marlachristensen2076 Жыл бұрын

What happened to the other David he lived with in Baltimore along with Brian Eno?

@starduck2 Жыл бұрын

I don't like weird, but that particular kind of weird is awesome!

@MrUndersolo 3 жыл бұрын

Why didn't he stay in Hamilton? I always cringe when I see that fact and realize that I could have met him in my hometown... Excellent video, BTW!

@dbarker7794 3 жыл бұрын

His father took a job in Baltimore, or that's what I've read.

@SuperQdaddy 2 жыл бұрын

I'd say Chris Frántz was the guy that pushed talking heads to success..he believed in David's kwerky style..without him who knows ?

@garyreams8123 Жыл бұрын

Thank you. And not to mention Tina!

@pashapasovski5860 3 жыл бұрын

There is water at the bottom of the Ocean, Under the water, Carrie the Water Water moves Water moves..

@victorrock1997 3 жыл бұрын

7th to comment, darn it! Anyway, I want to state here that I am a strong, long time David Byrne/Talking Heads fan! :)

@terencewinters2154 3 жыл бұрын

Hes also an autistic success story . Theres water under the ground.

@baronfyrewhine 2 жыл бұрын

No he's not. He's never once been diagnosed as being schizophrenic.

@terencewinters2154 2 жыл бұрын

@@baronfyrewhine autistic is not schizophrenic.

@glanni 2 жыл бұрын

@@terencewinters2154 That person is a freaking troll who keeps commenting under every comment talking about autism that it doesn't exist. Just ignore them. I was about to get mad but eh, what's the point.

@geezberry8889 Жыл бұрын

the man is a genius.

@joebaby9450 3 жыл бұрын

i love him with all of my heart

@bardgarciadepresnoespeland745 3 жыл бұрын

So good they'r still a treath. I did not clutter my mind with this 'sense' video.

@islandbirdw Жыл бұрын

So is RISDY an American version of Ealing Art College in Britain?

@RoverT65536 3 жыл бұрын

Dyspeptic is a great word.

@atomictraveller 3 жыл бұрын

epismetology isn't a word epistemology is, but its a forbidden word so just pretend i didn't mention it since the host didn't either

@RoverT65536 3 жыл бұрын

@@atomictraveller , thanks for reminding me about this.

@kevinpotts123 3 жыл бұрын

I was spending summer in Sardinia when the Stop Making Sense movie came out and you couldn't go into any bar without either that movie or the Italian dubbed Blues Brothers movie playing on their TVs.