''The Catherine Wheel'' is

David Byrne David Byrne (; born 14 May 1952) is a Scottish-American singer, songwriter, record producer, actor, writer, music theorist, visual artist and filmmaker. He was a founding member and the principal songwriter, lead singer, and guitarist of ...

's musical score commissioned by

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for her dance project. ''The Catherine Wheel'' premiered September 22, 1981, at the

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. The tracks "Big Blue Plymouth", "My Big Hands", "Big Business", and "What a Day That Was", were performed live by

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in 1982 and 1983; the latter two appear in their ''

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, and "What a Day That Was" appears on the

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. Byrne has also performed several of these tracks in his solo tours, including "What a Day That Was" which featured on his DVDs Live from Austin, TX and Live at Union Chapel.

Track listing

All songs written by

, except as indicated.

LP track listing

Cassette and CD track listing

Personnel

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– electric guitar, steel guitar, sound effects, steel drums, beats *

– synthesizer, bass guitar, flute, guitar, piano, sound effects, vocals, clavinet, Prophet synthesizer, Oberheim synthesizer *John Chernoff – guitar, percussion, piano, conga, gung gong, drums *John Cooksey – drums *

Brian Eno Brian Peter George St John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno (; born Brian Peter George Eno, 15 May 1948) is a British musician, composer, record producer and visual artist best known for his contributions to ambient music and work in rock, pop an ...

– bass guitar, guitar, piano, keyboards, background vocals, vibraphone, Prophet synthesizer, screams *Doug Gray – double bell euphonium *Sue Halloran – vocals *

Jerry Harrison Jeremiah Griffin Harrison (born February 21, 1949) is an American songwriter, musician, producer, and entrepreneur. He began his professional music career as a member of the cult band the Modern Lovers before becoming keyboardist and guitarist ...

– organ, drums, clavinet *Richard Horowitz – ney *Yogi Horton – drums, concert toms *Dolette McDonald – vocals *Steve Scales – percussion, conga *

Bernie Worrell George Bernard Worrell, Jr. (April 19, 1944 – June 24, 2016) was an American keyboardist and record producer best known as a founding member of Parliament-Funkadelic and for his work with Talking Heads. He is a member of the Rock and Roll ...

– synthesizer, piano, keyboards, clavinet, Moog synthesizer *Julie Last – recording and mixing engineer

Charts

Release history

References

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