Trivia / My Life in the Bush of Ghosts

• Keep Circulating the Tapes:
  • Barring the initial 1986 CD, "Qu'ran" was never made officially available again after being removed from the album, per the request of the Islamic Council of Great Britain. Consequently, the only way to legally listen to the song is scouring secondhand stores for a copy with the original tracklist.
  • Byrne and Eno's original versions of tracks where the samples couldn't be cleared have surfaced on bootlegs.
• Real Song Theme Tune: A bit of "The Jezebel Spirit" was used by UK's Channel 4 for its coverage of American Football in the 1980s.
• Screwed by the Lawyers: "The Jezebel Spirit" was originally written around audio from a sermon by evangelical preacher Kathryn Kuhlman. However, when Brian Eno and David Byrne contacted her estate for permission to use her voice, they were turned down. Consequently, the final track instead uses audio from an anonymous exorcism. The Kuhlman version of the song would eventually leak on the bootleg CD Ghosts, titled "Into the Spirit Womb" after a misheard phrase in the sample.
• What Could Have Been: This album was initially planned to be an equal collaboration between Eno, Byrne, and Jon Hassell (trumpet player and creator of the "fourth world" music genre).^note Hassell had already collaborated with Eno on the album Fourth World, Vol. 1: Possible Musics. However, Eno and Byrne started work early while Hassell was wrapping up production of his album Possible Musics. When Hassell heard what Eno and Byrne had made without him, he was very disappointed with the direction they were taking the album and dropped out entirely. Instead, he would provide trumpet parts on the later-produced but earlier-released Talking Heads album Remain in Light (specifically on "Houses in Motion").

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