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🗓️ 18 March 2018
⏱️ 35 minutes
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0:00.0 | This is the BBC. |
0:03.0 | Hello, I'm Kristi Young. |
0:05.0 | Welcome to Desert Island Discs, where every week I ask my guests to choose the eight tracks, the book and the luxury item |
0:12.0 | that they'd want to take with them if they were cast away on a desert island. |
0:16.0 | For rights reasons, the music on these podcast versions is shorter than in the original broadcast. |
0:22.0 | You can find over 2,000 more editions to listen to and download on the Desert Island Discs website. |
0:30.0 | My cast away this week is the musician David Byrne. |
0:52.0 | Talking heads was his band through the 70s and 80s. |
0:55.0 | He occupied a central but skew-width position in pop culture, dislocated, witty, ambiguous and twitching. |
1:02.0 | Taking new wave, existential angst and fashioning it into catchy, chart-topper, psychokiller road to nowhere and burning down the house |
1:09.0 | are just a few of the band's best known hits. |
1:12.0 | But unlike so many of his contemporaries, his was not a talent that could easily be wrung out by the music business and left for dead. |
1:19.0 | In the ensuing decades, his works, scoring movies, writing books, staging art installations and most recently collaborating with neuroscientists, |
1:27.0 | points to a man with significant creative reach. |
1:30.0 | A beguilingly unconventional presence he has nonetheless captivated the establishment, collecting an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and a Grammy along the way. |
1:39.0 | He says, |
1:40.0 | For my whole life, I have attempted to make works that hover in the zone between the high and the low, the known and the unknown, the quotidian and the extraordinary. |
1:48.0 | I love to make art that doesn't and nine sit self as art. |
1:52.0 | And that of course includes pop music. So welcome. |
1:55.0 | Thank you to Lovely Island. I'm very happy that this massive sound system washed up on the beach. |
2:02.0 | It's not here. It's very lucky. |
2:04.0 | You've been making sounds and many other things for around about 40 years now. |
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