That spring, Basquiat threw a big party at his SoHo loft on Crosby Street to celebrate his opening in a group show at the Marlborough Gallery. David [Byrne] was back in town and he showed up. David Hockney, the photographer/painter was there, and Byrne accosted him. “I started doing these photo montages a few months ago and I think it was before you were doing them.”
David Byrne was claiming David Hockney ripped him off much the same way Andrea Kovacs had accused the first David of the same thing years before over his mosaic-Polaroid cover of More Songs About Buildings and Food.
David Byrne was pretty high at that party.
Hockney ignored him.
David thought Hockney was wearing a hearing aid, or maybe listening to opera.
—David Bowman, This Must Be The Place: The Adventures of the Talking Heads In the Twentieth Century
