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David Byrne

Vernon Kay welcomes a real rule-breaker, David Byrne, a Scottish-born musician and frontman of art-rock group Talking Heads to Tracks of My Years.

Vernon Kay, welcomes a real rule-breaker, David Byrne. A Scottish-born musician and interdisciplinary artist who was best known as the front man of the influential American art-rock group 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 as part of Talking Heads he is an inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame In 2002. Where they they reunited to play four tracks: "Psycho Killer", "Burning Down the House", "Once In A Lifetime" and "Life During Wartime".
David鈥檚 new single 鈥淓verybody Laughs鈥� is out now: the new album 鈥淲ho is The Sky鈥� comes out on 5th September and you can catch David and his band on tour in the UK and Europe next year.

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Music Played

  • Pete Seeger

    Waist Deep In The Big Muddy

    • Headliners and Footnotes: A Collection of Topical Songs.
    • Smithsonian Folkways.
    • 15.

  • Woody Guthrie

    Do-Re-Mi

    • This Land Is Your Land - The Asch Records Vol 1.
    • Smithsonian Folkways.
    • 15.

  • The Byrds

    Mr Tambourine Man

    • Fifty Number Ones Of The 60's (Variou.
    • Global Television.

  • James Brown

    Cold Sweat

    • Sex Machine: Very Best Of James Brown.
    • Polydor.

  • Bill Lee & John Kerr

    Carefully Taught

    • South Pacific (Soundtrack).
    • Hallmark Music and Entertainment.
    • 14.

  • KC and the Sunshine Band

    Keep It Comin' Love

    • Soul Years 1977 (Various Artists).
    • Knight Records.

  • 顿鈥怲谤补颈苍

    You're The One For Me

    • The Greatest 80's Soul W/Ender (Va).
    • Warner Strategic Market.

  • Brian Eno

    Here Come The Warm Jets

    • Here Come The Warm Jets.
    • Virgin.
    • 10.

  • Television

    Venus

    • Marquee Moon.
    • Elektra.
    • 2.

  • Miles Davis

    Black Satin (Edit)

    • Miles Ahead (Original Motion Picture).
    • Source Columbia/Legacy.
    • 15.

Broadcast

  • Sun 3 Aug 2025 05:00
    蜜芽传媒 Radio 2