David Byrne: “We did okay”

David Byrne: “We did okay”

Mr. Byrne, do you write songs differently now than you did 30 years ago? I couldn’t write the same kind of songs now that I wrote then. I am not the same person and you don’t have the same anxieties and passions as you do when you’re in your twenties. But I find other ways […]

David Bowie: the man who loved books

David Bowie: the man who loved books

For a man who left Bromley Technical High School with just one ‘O’ level (in art), David Bowie ended up a remarkably well-read man. Bowie, who died aged 69 on January 10 2016, said that “when I’m relaxed what I do is read” and described a good week as one in which he pored through […]