Is David Byrne okay? Over half a century, the musician, artist, writer and filmmaker has established himself as one of modern America’s leading cultural forces – ‘rock’s renaissance man’, as Time magazine once hailed him. But in recent years, the former Talking Heads frontman has started to ask himself: Does any of it really matter? “When youContinue reading “David Byrne: “It’s hard not to feel like the dark is winning. But I’m not ready throw up my hands yet””
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Jarvis Cocker: ‘It’s dangerous to believe fame is an improvement on reality’
In 1981, a teenage Jarvis Cocker was pictured in the Sheffield Star holding a plastic tortoise. The photoshoot, in Jarvis’s mum’s living room, was to celebrate his band Pulp being invited down to London to record a session for John Peel’s legendary Radio One show. But it was only when he came across the photograph again fourContinue reading “Jarvis Cocker: ‘It’s dangerous to believe fame is an improvement on reality’”
