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Jonathan Horsley

“He had some good ideas. I remember when we met, he was eating an incredible amount of ice cream”: David Byrne on what happened when Talking Heads met Lou Reed

David Byrne wears horn-rimmed sunglasses and a gray suit as he performs live with a Fender Stratocaster. Lou Reed wears a black vest, is bathed in warm light, as he plays London's Southbank Centre in 2012.

Never meet your heroes. That’s what they say. Well, that’s terrible advice. What’s the worse thing that could happen? If they disappoint you, maybe you invested too much in them in the first place. And if they don’t, you just might learn something – and you might have a cool story to tell in the process.

Like when David Byrne met Lou Reed. Speaking to Rolling Stone, Byrne looks back on a young Talking Heads negotiating the burgeoning art and music scene of New York City in the 1970s. Reed used to come see them play.

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