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"Road to Nowhere" is a song by the American band Talking Heads, from their 1985 album Little Creatures. The song was written by David Byrne [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and released as a single in 1985. It reached No. 25 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and No. 6 on the UK, German and South African [ 5 ] singles charts.
No More Tears is the sixth studio album by English heavy metal singer Ozzy Osbourne.Released on 17 September 1991, the album charted at number 17 on the UK Albums Chart [4] and number seven on the US Billboard 200 albums chart. [5]
The video is set in a 1960s ambienced cabaret bar, where a frantic series of unannounced performers lip sync to the song, imitating such singers as Madonna and Prince as disjointed images play across a wall of video screens behind them. Byrne wrote about this scene: The song itself becomes a vehicle that can say anything they want it to.
In the music video, David Byrne dances erratically over footage of religious rituals, dressed in a suit, bowtie and glasses. In the "Once in a Lifetime" music video, Byrne appears in a large, empty white room, dressed in a suit, bowtie and glasses. In the background, inserted via bluescreen, footage of religious rituals or multiple Byrnes ...
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David Byrne (/ b ɜːr n /; born 14 May 1952) is a Scottish-American musician, writer, visual artist, and filmmaker. He was a founding member, principal songwriter, lead singer, and guitarist of the American new wave band Talking Heads.
A total of 100 hours were spent shooting the music video, with each second of video consisting of 25 unique poses from Gabriel. [35] A major hit on music television, "Sledgehammer" won nine MTV Video Music Awards in 1987, [4] the most awards a single video has won. [5] It ranked at number four on MTV's 100 Greatest Music Videos Ever Made (1999).
The theme song was written by Toni Baker and Peter Kay, and borrowed heavily from the theme to the 1970s American series B. J. and the Bear. The lyrics are "Don't know where we're going, Got no way of knowing, Driving on the Road to Nowhere. Sponging for a living, Checkin' out the women, Riding on the Road to Nowhere...