David Byrne: A Composer of Pleasure
Steve Turner, Times, The, 1 December 1989
What do you think you are best at? David Byrne, neat in a blue button-down collar shirt and college athletes haircut, looks nervously into the distance, as if expecting an answer to be beamed to him by a passing satellite. His head twitches. His eyes swivel.
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