![]() Like a number of prominent musical guests, Byrne was not confined to the musical performances. It was his first time on the show since 1989, when he was promoting his solo album Rei Momo, according to Billboard. Byrne performed the song with an 11-member backing band, all barefoot and dressed in grey suits. A lot of the videos, like Duran Duran’s, were more like fashion shoots than films.” David Byrne | Theo Wargo/Getty Images What happened on Saturday Night Live?Īlthough “Once in a Lifetime” was primarily an MTV hit rather than a Billboard hit, that was more than enough for memory to power the acclaim for Byrne’s performance on Saturday Night Live. Nevertheless, Harrison said “We thought MTV was a little silly. That sweat paid off because it set up the band for even bigger MTV success later with songs like “Burning Down the House,” which actually was a US top 10 hit – the only one. Talking Heads band member Jerry Harrison remembered in the book I Want my MTV that the video “showed off David’s quirkiness, with him borrowing the body language of southern preachers and being in a sort of ecstatic state. ![]() The song came out only a few months after MTV itself hit the air, and the timing turned out to be fortuitous, as the channel put it in heavy rotation. So how come people remember it so well? It was largely because of the music video, co-directed by Toni Basil of “Mickey” fame, which got a ton of airplay on MTV. The song came from the 1981 Talking Heads album Remain in Light, and it was released as a single, but it didn’t even hit the hot 100, bubbling under at 103. ‘Once in a Lifetime’ was big on MTV, not much else Same as it ever was with the former Talking Heads bandleader.īyrne appeared on the show to promote songs from his Broadway show American Utopia and to perform the classic Talking Heads tune about when your days go by – although the song actually was not the hit some might remember it to be. David Byrne’s recent performance on Saturday Night Live wasn’t quite “Once in a Lifetime,” but it was his first performance on the show in 30 years and it sent the internet buzzing with acclaim.
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