Support for this podcast and the following message come from Dignity Memorial.

When your celebration of life is prepaid today, your family is protected tomorrow.

Planning ahead is truly one of the best gifts you can give your family. For additional

information visit dignity memorial.com. This is fresh air. I'm Terry Gross.

Today we're featuring the interview I recorded with David Byrne last fall.

He's a founding member of the band Talking Heads, one of the seminal bands of the punk New Wave period of the 70s.

They weren't exactly punk, but they weren't 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. Byrne went on to record solo albums, collaborate on experimental theater

pieces with Robert Wilson and Spalding Gray, and a ballet with

choreographer Twyla Tharp. He still has the record label he founded in 1988,

Luaca Bop. His first releases were compilations of Brazilian music, but then he expanded into African

pop and later jazz and gospel, as well as his own solo albums.

Spike Lee directed the film adaptation of his 2019 concert Broadway show American Utopia.

He won an Oscar as one of the composers of the score for the Bertilucci film The Last Emperor, and was nominated for one for the song he co-wrote with

Mitsky and Sun Locks for the 2022 film Everything Everywhere All at Once.

That's a long way to go from CBGB. everywhere all at once.

That's a long way to go from CBGB.

It is a long way to go.

...