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Not Forgotten: David Byrne – David Byrne

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Not Forgotten: David Byrne – Feelings

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Pixalated headshot photo of Yoko Ono

Benjamin Gibbard is the lead vocalist and guitarist of Death Cab for Cutie and alongwith Canvasback Music / Atlantic Records he unveils the compilation tribute album Ocean Child: Songs of Yoko Ono. Ahead of the scheduled album release date of 18 February, David Byrne and Yo Lo Tengo have released a cover of Yoko Ono’s …

Like most people, I had been aware of David Byrne via his work with the Talking Heads, however I’d also heard that his solo albums were generally a bit more arty and just a little bit pretentious, but a friend of mine advised that this was a good album to take a risk with and …

Can you hear the name David Byrne without thinking of the super-sized suit or humming ‘Once in a Lifetime?’ Me neither. The Talking- Head-in-Chief moved to New York years ago. Like so many of us in recent years, he felt the urge to despair and hide whenever he watched the news. But he made a …

In retrospect Feelings is probably the last time that David Byrne made a conscious effort to make an album that might sell to an audience beyond his most obsessed fans. Where his previous self titled album had been a mature mix of material with a very definite adult feel about it, Feelings was partly a …