David Byrne on NYC in the 1970s

David Byrne on people romanticizing the 1970s in New York City: "There were jazz clubs and discos in lofts in Soho and other places."

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00:00Yeah, people romanticized the grit and the dirt.

00:02On some level, it was good because the city was kind of on its knees,

00:08so it was ignoring a lot of stuff.

00:10People could have, there were like jazz clubs and discos and stuff in lofts and stuff in Soho and other places.

00:21And the city just kind of turned a blind eye to all this stuff.

00:27These places were far from legal.

00:29Artists would kind of live in, musicians would live in these lofts or apartments or whatever and pay very low rent.

00:38It's kind of shocking how low the rent was, but that's how funky the neighborhood was.

00:43And that allowed all of us to kind of get a foothold.

00:48Let's go.

00:49Let's go.

00:50Let's go.

00:51Let's go.