{"id":29781,"date":"2024-06-24T18:03:55","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T18:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/talking-heads-frontman-david-byrne-meets-with-sen-ted-cruz\/"},"modified":"2024-06-24T18:03:55","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T18:03:55","slug":"talking-heads-frontman-david-byrne-meets-with-sen-ted-cruz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/talking-heads-frontman-david-byrne-meets-with-sen-ted-cruz\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking Heads frontman David Byrne meets with Sen. Ted Cruz"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-06-24\/Getty_DavidByrne_062424.jpg\" alt><figcaption> Eric Charbonneau\/Getty Images for A24<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Talking Heads<\/strong> frontman <strong>David Byrne<\/strong> met with Texas Sen. Ted Cruz on Friday, according to a post on Cruz\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C8iOfLkPPkj\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>social media accounts<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cOnce in a lifetime opportunity meeting David Byrne of the Talking Heads,\u201d Cruz wrote, referencing the band\u2019s classic song. \u201cWe had a great conversation about royalties for musicians.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In the photo, the pair\u00a0is posing in front of a mural of former President <strong>Ronald Reagan<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Byrne has not commented on the meeting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The music of Talking Heads was recently celebrated with a tribute album,\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Everyone&#8217;s Getting Involved,\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">\ufefffeaturing artists like <strong>Miley Cyrus<\/strong>, <strong>Paramore<\/strong>,<strong> Lorde<\/strong> and more covering Talking Heads tracks. The album came out in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the band&#8217;s classic concert film, <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Stop Making Sense<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Charbonneau\/Getty Images for A24 Talking Heads frontman David Byrne met with Texas Sen. Ted Cruz on Friday, according to a post on Cruz\u2019s social media accounts. \u201cOnce in a lifetime opportunity meeting David Byrne of the Talking Heads,\u201d Cruz wrote, referencing the band\u2019s classic song. \u201cWe had a great<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/talking-heads-frontman-david-byrne-meets-with-sen-ted-cruz\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29781"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}