David Byrne & Fatboy Slim’s acclaimed 2010 album Here Lies Love receives its first-ever vinyl release to coincide with a new production opening on Broadway.

Here Lies Love is a double-disc song cycle – improbably poignant, decidedly surreal, surprisingly thought provoking – about the rise and fall of the Philippines' notorious Imelda Marcos. It was conceived by David Byrne; composed by Byrne and DJ/recording artist Fatboy Slim, AKA Norman Cook; and performed by a dream cast drawn from the worlds of indie rock, alt country, R&B and pop.

Byrne's taste in collaborators is as imaginative as it is impeccable, including Cyndi Lauper (who recounts, to lighthearted disco beats, Imelda's courtship with Ferdinand Marcos), Steve Earle (as the power-hungry Ferdinand), Dap-Kings vocalist Sharon Jones (recalling Imelda's introduction into New York society) and Natalie Merchant (as spurned Imelda confidante Estrella, anticipating the onset of martial law). Along with vocals turns from such stars as Tori Amos and the B-52's Kate Pierson, Byrne works with rising indie rockers St. Vincent and My Brightest Diamond; New York chanteuses Nellie McKay and Martha Wainwright; and dance-music divas Róisín Murphy and Santigold. Byrne himself appears as the voice of imperialistic America on ‘American Troglodyte’, a send-up that wouldn't have seemed out of place in Talking Heads' True Stories.

Label
Nonesuch / Warner
Genre
Pop & Rock LP - SIDE A
Here Lies Love (feat. Florence Welch)
Every Drop of Rain (feat. Candie Payne & St. Vincent)
You'll Be Taken Care Of (feat. Tori Amos)
The Rose of Tacloban (feat. Martha Wainwright)
A Perfect Hand (feat. Steve Earle)
LP - SIDE B
Eleven Days (feat. Cyndi Lauper)
When She Passed By (feat. Allison Moorer)
Walk Like a Woman (feat. Charmaine Clamor)
Dont You Agree (feat. Róisín Murphy)
Pretty Face (feat. Camille)
Ladies in Blue (feat. Theresa Andersson)
LP - SIDE C
Dancing Together (feat. Sharon Jones)
How Are You? (feat. Nellie McKay)
Men Will Do Anything (feat. Alice Russell)
The Whole Man (feat. Kate Pierson)
Never so Big (feat. Sia)
Please Dont (feat. Santigold)
LP - SIDE D
American Troglodyte
Solano Avenue (feat. Nicole Atkins)
Order 1081 (feat. Natalie Merchant)
Seven Years (feat. Shara Worden)
Why Don't You Love Me? (feat. Tori Amos & Cyndi Lauper)

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