The Catherine Wheel is David Byrne

David Byrne

David Byrne may refer to:*David Byrne , musician and former Talking Heads frontman**David Byrne , his eponymous album*David Byrne , Irish footballer*David Byrne , English footballer...

's musical score commissioned by Twyla Tharp

Twyla Tharp

Twyla Tharp is an American dancer and choreographer, who lives and works in New York City.-Early years:Tharp was born in 1941 on a farm in Portland, Indiana, and was named after Twila Thornburg, the "Pig Princess" of the 89th Annual Muncie Fair in Indiana.she spend hours working on it to help her...

 for her dance project. The Catherine Wheel premiered September 22, 1981, at the Winter Garden Theatre

Winter Garden Theatre

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 in New York City

New York City

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The tracks "Big Blue Plymouth", "My Big Hands", "Big Business", and "What a Day That Was", were performed live by Talking Heads

Talking Heads

Talking Heads were an American New Wave and avant-garde band formed in 1975 in New York City and active until 1991. The band comprised David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth and Jerry Harrison...

 in 1982 and 1983; the latter two appear in their Stop Making Sense

Stop Making Sense

Stop Making Sense is a concert movie featuring Talking Heads live on stage. Directed by Jonathan Demme, it was shot over the course of three nights at Hollywood's Pantages Theater in December 1983, as the group was touring to promote their new album Speaking in Tongues. The movie is notable for...

film

Stop Making Sense

Stop Making Sense is a concert movie featuring Talking Heads live on stage. Directed by Jonathan Demme, it was shot over the course of three nights at Hollywood's Pantages Theater in December 1983, as the group was touring to promote their new album Speaking in Tongues. The movie is notable for...

, and "What a Day That Was" appears on the album

Stop Making Sense (album)

Stop Making Sense is a live 1984 album by Talking Heads, the soundtrack to the film of the same name. The original release of the album features only nine of the songs from the movie, many of them heavily edited. The album spent over two years on the Billboard 200 chart...

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LP track listing

All songs written by David Byrne

David Byrne (musician)

David Byrne is a musician and artist, best known as a founding member and principal songwriter of the American new wave band Talking Heads, which was active between 1975 and 1991. Since then, Byrne has released his own solo recordings and worked with various media including film, photography,...

, except as indicated.
Side one

1. "His Wife Refused" – 4:26
2. "Two Soldiers" (music: Byrne, Brian Eno
   Brian Eno
   Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno , commonly known as Brian Eno or simply as Eno , is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer and visual artist, known as one of the principal innovators of ambient music.Eno studied at Colchester Institute art school in Essex,...
   
   ) – 4:45
3. "The Red House" – 3:17
4. "My Big Hands (Fall Through the Cracks)" – 2:45
5. "Big Business" (lyrics: Byrne, music: Byrne, John Chernoff) – 5:16

Side two

6. "Eggs in a Briar Patch" – 3:31
7. "Poison" – 2:38
8. "Cloud Chamber" – 2:42
9. "What a Day That Was" – 5:32
10. "Big Blue Plymouth (Eyes Wide Open)" – 4:45
11. "Light Bath" – 1:08

Cassette and CD track listing

All songs written by David Byrne, except as indicated.

1. "Light Bath" – 1:09
2. "His Wife Refused" – 4:31
3. "Ade" (music: Byrne, Eno)  – 3:22
4. "Walking" (music: Byrne, John Chernoff)  – 0:52
5. "Two Soldiers" (music: Byrne, Brian Eno)  – 3:31
6. "Under the Mountain" – 0:53
7. "Dinosaur" – 2:36
8. "The Red House" – 3:17
9. "Wheezing" – 3:12
10. "Eggs in a Briar Patch" – 3:31
11. "Poison" – 2:31
12. "Cloud Chamber" – 2:50
13. "Black Flag" – 2:29
14. "My Big Hands (Fall Through the Cracks)" – 2:46
15. "Combat" (music: Byrne, Chernoff)  – 2:45
16. "Leg Bells" (lyrics: Byrne, music: Byrne, Chernoff)  – 2:40
17. "The Blue Flame" – 3:25
18. "Big Business" (lyrics: Byrne, music: Byrne, Chernoff)  – 5:06
19. "Dense Beasts" – 3:11
20. "Five Golden Sections" – 2:53
21. "What a Day That Was" – 5:30
22. "Big Blue Plymouth (Eyes Wide Open)" – 4:43
23. "Light Bath" – 1:10

Personnel

"His Wife Refused"

• Adrian Belew
  Adrian Belew
  Adrian Belew is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer...
  
   – steel drum guitar
• David Byrne – vocals
  Singing
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  , bass
  Bass guitar
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  , guitar
  Guitar
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• John Chernoff – gung gong
• Yogi Horton – drums
  Drum kit
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• Bernie Worrell
  Bernie Worrell
  George Bernard "Bernie" Worrell, Jr. is an American keyboardist and composer best known as a founding member of Parliament-Funkadelic and for his work with Talking Heads. He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in 1997 with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic...
  
   – mini Moog
  Moog synthesizer
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  , piano
  Piano
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"Two Soldiers"

• Adrian Belew – guitars
• David Byrne – basses, guitar, OBX, primetime
• John Chernoff – congas
• Brian Eno
  Brian Eno
  Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno , commonly known as Brian Eno or simply as Eno , is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer and visual artist, known as one of the principal innovators of ambient music.Eno studied at Colchester Institute art school in Essex,...
  
   – bass, piano
• Yogi Horton – drums

"The Red House"

• David Byrne – basses, guitars, prophet
• Brian Eno – prophet scream
• Yogi Horton – drums

"My Big Hands"

• David Byrne – vocals, bass, guitars, percussion, prophet
• Yogi Horton – drums

"Big Business"

• David Byrne – vocals, bass, fierce and high guitars
• John Chernoff – galloping guitar
• Bernie Worrell
  Bernie Worrell
  George Bernard "Bernie" Worrell, Jr. is an American keyboardist and composer best known as a founding member of Parliament-Funkadelic and for his work with Talking Heads. He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in 1997 with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic...
  
   – clavinet
  Clavinet
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"Eggs in a Briar Patch"

• Adrian Belew – floating guitars
• David Byrne – guitars, horses
• John Chernoff – gung gong
• Brian Eno – bass, vibes
• Jerry Harrison
  Jerry Harrison
  Jerry Harrison is an American songwriter, musician and producer...
  
   – clavinet
• Yogi Horton – drums

"Poison"

• David Byrne – vocals, bass, guitars, mini synthesizer, prophet strings
• Dolette McDonald – vocals

"Cloud Chamber"

• David Byrne – kitchen metals
• Jerry Harrison – large drum
• Twyla Tharp
  Twyla Tharp
  Twyla Tharp is an American dancer and choreographer, who lives and works in New York City.-Early years:Tharp was born in 1941 on a farm in Portland, Indiana, and was named after Twila Thornburg, the "Pig Princess" of the 89th Annual Muncie Fair in Indiana.she spend hours working on it to help her...
  
   – water pot

"What a Day That Was"

• David Byrne – vocals, bass, guitars, synthesizers
• John Cooksey
  John Cooksey
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   – drums
• Steve Scales – congas

"Big Blue Plymouth"

• David Byrne – vocals, guitars
• Sue Halloran – vocals
• Yogi Horton – concert toms, drums

"Light Bath"

• David Byrne – triggered flutes
• John Chernoff – percussion

CD credits

• Adrian Belew
  Adrian Belew
  Adrian Belew is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer...
  
   – electric guitar, steel guitar, sound effects, steel drums, beats
• David Byrne – synthesizer, bass guitar, flute, guitar, piano, sound effects, vocals, clavinet, Prophet synthesizer, oberheim
• John Chernoff – guitar, percussion, piano, conga, gung gong, drums
• John Cooksey – drums
• Brian Eno
  Brian Eno
  Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno , commonly known as Brian Eno or simply as Eno , is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer and visual artist, known as one of the principal innovators of ambient music.Eno studied at Colchester Institute art school in Essex,...
  
   – bass guitar, guitar, piano, keyboards, background vocals, vibraphone, Prophet synthesizer, screams
• Doug Gray – double bell euphonium
• Sue Halloran – vocals
• Jerry Harrison
  Jerry Harrison
  Jerry Harrison is an American songwriter, musician and producer...
  
   – organ, drums, clavinet
• Richard Horowitz – ney
• Yogi Horton – drums, concert toms
• Dolette McDonald – vocals
• Steve Scales – percussion, conga
• Bernie Worrell
  Bernie Worrell
  George Bernard "Bernie" Worrell, Jr. is an American keyboardist and composer best known as a founding member of Parliament-Funkadelic and for his work with Talking Heads. He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in 1997 with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic...
  
   – synthesizer, piano, keyboards, clavinet, Moog synthesizer

Charts

Year	Chart	Position
1982	Billboard Pop Albums Billboard (magazine) Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...	104

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog
Worldwide	1981	Warner Bros. Warner Bros. Records Warner Bros. Records Inc. is an American record label. It was the foundation label of the present-day Warner Music Group, and now operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of that corporation. It maintains a close relationship with its former parent, Warner Bros. Pictures, although the two companies...	LP	3645
		Sire Sire Records Sire Records is an American record label, owned by Warner Music Group and distributed through Warner Bros. Records.-Beginnings:The label was founded in 1966 as Sire Productions by Seymour Stein and Richard Gottehrer, each investing ten thousand dollars into the new company. Its early releases as a...	Cassette tape	M5S-3645
	1987	Luaka Bop Luaka Bop Luaka Bop is a world music-oriented record label established by David Byrne, former guitarist, singer-songwriter and producer of the art rock/new wave band Talking Heads. It has been a wholly independent label since leaving V2 in 2006. Previous distribution relationships included Warner and Virgin...	CD	3645
	1990	Warner Bros.	Cassette tape	3645
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