
David Byrne
Department: Sound
Biography
David Byrne (/bɜːrn/; born 14 May 1952) is a Scottish-American musician, writer, visual artist, and filmmaker. He was a founding member, principal songwriter, lead singer, and guitarist of the American new wave band 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 he is an inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as part of Talking Heads. Description above from the Wikipedia article David Byrne, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For

Social! Distance Dance Club
2021

Stop Making Sense
1984

True Stories
1986

Talking Heads: Rock Pop in Concert
1981

Heavy Petting
1989

Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach: Sessions at West 54th
1998

Fathers and Songs: Music for Father's Day
2013

Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The 1970s
2002

Paul Simon: Under African Skies
2012

Dead End Kids
1986

Twyla Moves
2021

This Must Be the Place
2011

The Kitchen Presents: Two Moon July
1986

Lou Reed: Rock and Roll Heart
1998

Talking Heads: Live at Montreux Jazz Festival
1982

Lulu on the Bridge
1998

Between the Teeth
1993

Talking Heads: Storytelling Giant
1988

The Making of True Stories
2018

The Man Who Bottled Clouds
2008

Ride, Rise, Roar
2011

Talking Heads: The Name of this Programme is Once In A Lifetime
1984

Fabricating Tom Zé
2006

Beyond Ipanema
2009

Café Tacvba - Un Segundo / MTV Unplugged
2019

Celia: The Queen
2008

Tori Amos: Sessions at West 54th
1998

The Pogues Live at the Town and Country
2004

Talking Heads - Chronology
2011

Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall
2016

Lennon or McCartney
2014

David Byrne - Live from Austin Texas
2007

Contemporary Color
2016

The Blank Generation
1976

Talking Heads: Live in Rome
1980

Talking Heads: Capitol Theatre
1980

TV Party
2005

Wandering Heart
2009

10000 Maniacs: MTV Unplugged
1993

25 Years of Punk
2001

We're Gonna Die
2015

Museum Town
2019

Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB
2009

John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch
2019

Lubbock Lights
2003

Dancing Barefoot
1995

Well How Did We Get Here? A Brief History of Talking Heads
2017

Everything For All Reasons
2019

Decade
1989

David Byrne's American Utopia
2020

Checking Out
1988

By the Ways, a Journey with William Eggleston
2006

David Byrne: ACL Fest 2018
2018

Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter
1990

The Art of Amália
2000

La Casa del Ritmo: A Film About Los Amigos Invisibles
2012

FeeLee. History of a Single Label
2020

Hream
2019

David Byrne: Live At Union Chapel
2003

Temporary Color
2016

Triple-Chaser
2019

NY77: The Coolest Year in Hell
2007

Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell
2008

New York Rock at the BBC
2008

Beleza Tropical
1990

Tom Zé: Liberated Astronaut
2009

Dennis Cleveland
2004

Homo Brasilis: Tom Zé, o Tropicalista Visionário
2023

SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
2025

Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
2025

Report From L.A.
1986

Real Life
2018

Monk in Pieces
2025

We Want the Funk!
2025

Untitled Patton/Byrne Piece
2008

PJ Harvey: Sessions at West 54th
1998

The Twits
2025

Changing Lanes
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Stranger: Bernie Worrell on Earth
2005

David Byrne - Live From Teatro Gran Rex
1998

The Simpsons
1989

Austin City Limits
1975

BREAK IT ALL: The History of Rock in Latin America
2020

Space Ghost Coast to Coast
1994

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015

StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson
2015

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014

Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014

Sessions at West 54th
1997

Stars in the House
2020

Saturday Night Live
1975

Real Time with Bill Maher
2003

The Oscars
1953

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962

The Max Headroom Show
1985

Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003

60 Minutes
1968

The Jonathan Ross Show
2011

Late Show with David Letterman
1993