Maybe we should’ve offered Lou Reed a scoop before being cursed out over the status of his Sirius stock holdings . David Byrne has reminisced about the first time he met the musician, telling Rolling Stone in a new interview that Reed wanted to sign Talking Heads to a management deal at the start of their career. Despite being “in awe of” his creative ideas, Byrne and his bandmates felt it wouldn’t be a sound idea to enter into a business relationship with one of their heroes. “We were playing through some of our songs, just strumming a guitar,” he said. “And I remember he was showing us how if you slowed some of them down a little bit, that might not be the worst thing in the world, rather than trying to blurt out all the words really quickly. I remember when we met, he was eating a
David Byrne Recalls Strange First Meeting With Lou Reed

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