They first connected in the early Talking Heads days and went on to create classic records like Remain in Light and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts.
David Byrne’s current U.S. tour features a mix of classic Talking Heads material and tracks from his new LP Who Is the Sky? He has also been performing a brand new song each night titled “T-Shirt,” which remained unheard by fans until the tour launched. He has now released a video for the track and confirmed that he co wrote it with Brian Eno.
The video presents a collage of T-shirts covered in messages such as “Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History,” “Make America Gay Again,” “Fight Today For a Better Tomorrow!,” “Embrace Differences,” “Say Perhaps to Drugs,” “Human Rights Are Not Optional,” and “No Kings.”
Byrne’s connection with Brian Eno dates back to the 1978 Talking Heads album More Songs About Building and Food. They also worked together on 1978’s Fear of Music and 1980’s Remain in Light. Outside of Talking Heads, Eno and Byrne collaborated on the 1981 album My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. In 2008, they reunited to create Everything That Happens Will Happen Today. Byrne supported that release with the Songs of David Byrne and Brian Eno Tour, performing only tracks they created together, whether in Talking Heads or on their solo projects.
In his recent Rolling Stone interview, Byrne remembered how Eno first entered the picture. “When [Talking Heads] were starting out, we were big fans of the Velvet Underground,” he said. “John Cale and Lou Reed came to see us at CBGB. We met with Lou Reed a couple of times. He wanted to sign us to a management production deal. But it was a little bit too much like, ‘Oh, I don’t know if we’re ready for this.’ We pulled back. John introduced us to Brian Eno on our first trip to London, and that proved to be a big deal for us.”
Byrne’s Who Is the Sky? tour continues Tuesday night at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco. The run will keep him traveling until it concludes on March 19, 2026, in Paris.

