David Byrne admits he made a ‘major mistake’ wearing blackface

A rock music legend is speaking up over a “major mistake” in his career.

David Byrne said in a new interview that he was “self-cancelled” for wearing Blackface in a promo skit for Talking Heads’ 1984 concert film “Stop Making Sense.” Byrne appeared in the video as multiple characters, including some who were people of color.

“Sometimes people are cancelled if they’ve done something way in the past, 20, 30 years ago [though, and] I feel like human beings can change,” Byrne told “ The Louis Theroux Podast ” on Tuesday. “We can learn from our mistakes [so] let’s look at what they’ve done since then. If they made a mistake and it’s not this really horrible thing. Then let’s see if they’ve kind of made amends and how they’ve behaved since then, because maybe that was just a mistake.”

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