Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When TIME decided to do a cover story on David Byrne, the eclectic leader of the rock group Talking Heads and director of the new movie True Stories, the magazine's editors decided to let the artist have a piece of the action. The result: this week's cover, a Byrne self-portrait whose multicolored panels provide an excellent representation, says TIME's executive art director Nigel Holmes, "of someone who is a man of many parts...
...TIME's art department, one of the nicest things about this week's project was that the artist turned in his work on time. "Byrne came across as a consummate professional graphic designer," says Holmes. We think readers will agree that the Renaissance man of rock and movies can add magazine covers to his growing list of accomplishments...
...Tablets and the monkey blood." Which is about where, in the cinematic scheme of things, True Stories fits. Right between a 4-H rally and the Monkees' Head. Between Dallas and Paris, Texas. Between Charles Kuralt and Fellini. Between David Letterman and David Lynch. Between everything you forgot about rock movies and nothing you quite expect...
Fans who had hoped to talk with the rock star were disappointed; Byrne had few words for the throng who had waited to see him and didn't take books and albums directly from the fans...
Instead, an assistant walked along a line of fans that stretched from the Coop door around the corner onto Church St., gathered the books and albums and returned them after the rock star signed them...