.

David Byrne Plots First Tour Dates of Eno-Music Tour

By 
July 16, 2008 5:28 PM ET

Earlier this year, former Talking Head David Byrne and super-producer Brian Eno revealed that the duo were working on a new album, with a tour planned for later this year. The first two dates of those shows, billed as "Songs of Talking Heads' David Byrne and Roxy Music founder Brian Eno," have popped up. Byrne, who will be touring without Eno, will so far play Atlanta's Chastain Park Amphitheatre on September 20th and Santa Barbara, California's Arlington Theatre on October 4th. As the billing indicates, you can expect a fair sampling of Remain in Light as well as some Roxy Music if you're lucky. As for the pair's new album, their first collaboration together since 1981's My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, is expected out later this year.

Related Stories:
• Video: Inside David Byrne's "Playing the Building"

To read the new issue of Rolling Stone online, plus the entire RS archive: Click Here

prev
Bret Michaels Will Degrade Himself, Women, Humanity Again For Another Season of "Rock of Love"
Music Main Next
Natasha Bedingfield Muses on John Mayer Collabo, Her Own Ubiquity

Picks From Around the Web


blog comments powered by Disqus
Daily Newsletter

Get the latest RS news in your inbox.

Sign up to receive the Rolling Stone newsletter and special offers from RS and its
marketing partners.

X

We may use your e-mail address to send you the newsletter and offers that may interest you, on behalf of Rolling Stone and its partners. For more information please read our Privacy Policy.

Most Popular

Photos & Videos

Go To Content

Random Notes: Hottest Rock Pictures

Go To Content Play Video

Video: Dave Grohl Sits in With the Rolling Stones

Go To Content

Gallery: 'Born Sinner' Series by J. Cole

Best Ever Lists
500 Greatest Songs of All Time

Other Lists

Song Stories

“1999”

Prince | 1982

“I don’t consider myself a great poet,” Prince told Rolling Stone. “I just know I’m here to say what’s on my mind.” In the case of the apocalyptic party anthem “1999,” he was worried about then-president Ronald Reagan’s foreign policies. The song’s melody is based on a riff borrowed from the Mamas and Papas’ “Monday, Monday,” and Prince originally envisioned the first verse with three-part harmony but later split the vocals between himself and members of the Revolution. Because Warner Bros., with whom Prince was locked in a contractual battle, owned the original’s masters, Prince rerecorded the song and appropriately released that version in 1999.

More Song Stories entries »