David Byrne planned to be an engineer. Instead, he enrolled at the Rhode Island School of Design, where he met Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz. Byrne dropped out two years later and in 1975 formed the Talking Heads with Tina, Chris, and (later) Jerry Harrison. In the five decades since, he’s evolved from punk pioneer to solo artist to film composer to Broadway creator. This fall, Byrne brings his 2025 album, Who Is the Sky?, recorded with the Ghost Train Orchestra, to Forest Hills Stadium. Byrne presents love and community as the most punk, nonconformist gestures left in our culture, and asks the audience to move together in uncertain times with joy, unity, and optimism. —Clara Scholl