Ever changing and ever challenging, David Byrne has metamorphosed his way far beyond the paradigm of the Talking Heads frontman that made him a rock star of his day. Since then, he has morphed and changed and cross-pollinated across the worlds of design, dance, theatre, film, opera, ballet, politics and writing. His beautifully ambiguous approach to the banal and the obvious, with an incessant eye to pushing the cultural envelope, makes him one of the most fascinating artists of our time. To call him a Renaissance Man would be trivial. To say he’s a punk icon would be reductive. Byrne is More, he is much More. What follows is an idiosyncratic tribute from his long-time associate. By Vivien Goldman f
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