The innovative and influential Heads came up playing pin-pointed, guitar-driven rock behind a strangely charismatic frontman. Of 10 chapters, by far the most interesting are those on the subject Byrne knows best of all: Talking Heads and the music he had a hand in making. The chapters are not chronological or sequential.” While Byrne suggests “there’s a flow to it,” there’s a lot of loosely related material here, and the book flows … but slowly. Each chapter, Byrne tells us, “focuses on a distinct aspect of music and its context. His latest book, How Music Works does not qualify as an autobiography instead, his career as a musician serves as an entry point for a more general discussion about music.īyrne wants to teach and conjecture, discussing music’s connection to human origins, its history, its evolution, its strengths and its weaknesses. David Byrne acquired fame as the lead singer and guitarist of Talking Heads, one of the downtown New York bands that helped sweep punk and new wave to prominence in the late ‘70s.
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