How Music Works by David Byrne – review

The former Talking Head delights with a 'wildly ambitious' study of all matters musical, from Pythagoras to the MP3David Byrne was not like other boys. When he first heard Purple Haze, aged 14, the precocious future leader of Talking Heads informed his father that "the electric guitar has broken free from history". Two years later he was performing Chuck Berry and Eddie Cochran on the ukulele. At 18 he travelled from Rhode Island to the Bath festival but "exhausted after hours of listening to mu...

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