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Lead singer [[David Byrne]] walks on to a bare stage with a portable | Lead singer [[David Byrne]] walks on to a bare stage with a portable cassette tape player and an acoustic guitar. He introduces ''[[Psycho Killer]]'' by saying he wants to play a tape, but in reality a [[Wikipedia:Roland TR-808|Roland TR-808]] drum machine starts playing from the mixing board. The gunshot-like beats cause Byrne to stagger "like [[Wikipedia:Jean-Paul Belmondo|Jean-Paul Belmondo]] in the final minutes of ''[[Wikipedia:Breathless (1960 film)|Breathless]]'', a hero succumbing, surprised, to violence that he'd thought he was prepared for." | ||
With each successive song, Byrne is joined by more members of the band: first by [[Tina Weymouth]] for ''[[Heaven]]'' (with [[Lynn Mabry]] providing harmony vocals from backstage), second by [[Chris Frantz]] for ''[[Thank You for Sending Me an Angel]]'', and third by [[Jerry Harrison]] for ''[[Found a Job]]''. Performance equipment is wheeled out and added to the set to accommodate the additional musicians: back-up singers Lynn Mabry and Ednah Holt, keyboardist [[Bernie Worrell]], percussionist Steve Scales, and guitarist [[Alex Weir]]. The first song to feature the entire lineup is ''[[Burning Down the House]]'', although the original 1985 RCA/Columbia Home Video release (which featured three additional songs in two performances edited into the film) has the entire band (minus Worrell) performing ''[[Cities]]'' before this song. Byrne leaves the stage at one point for a costume change, during which the Weymouth–Frantz-led side-band [[Tom Tom Club]] perform their song ''[[Genius of Love]]''. The band also performs two songs from Byrne's soundtrack album ''[[The Catherine Wheel]]'', ''[[What a Day That Was]]'' and (as a bonus song on the home video release) ''[[Big Business]]''. | With each successive song, Byrne is joined by more members of the band: first by [[Tina Weymouth]] for ''[[Heaven]]'' (with [[Lynn Mabry]] providing harmony vocals from backstage), second by [[Chris Frantz]] for ''[[Thank You for Sending Me an Angel]]'', and third by [[Jerry Harrison]] for ''[[Found a Job]]''. Performance equipment is wheeled out and added to the set to accommodate the additional musicians: back-up singers Lynn Mabry and Ednah Holt, keyboardist [[Bernie Worrell]], percussionist Steve Scales, and guitarist [[Alex Weir]]. The first song to feature the entire lineup is ''[[Burning Down the House]]'', although the original 1985 RCA/Columbia Home Video release (which featured three additional songs in two performances edited into the film) has the entire band (minus Worrell) performing ''[[Cities]]'' before this song. Byrne leaves the stage at one point for a costume change, during which the Weymouth–Frantz-led side-band [[Tom Tom Club]] perform their song ''[[Genius of Love]]''. The band also performs two songs from Byrne's soundtrack album ''[[The Catherine Wheel]]'', ''[[What a Day That Was]]'' and (as a bonus song on the home video release) ''[[Big Business]]''. | ||