LAYTON - GRAND DESIGN

Deborah Harry, Adam Ant, David Byrne, Adrian Belew and David Bowie sit, eyes closed, holding hands around a black and white checkerboard-patterned table that is spattered with bright pink, yellow, and aqua. Behind each of them is a large Robert Nagel painting framed with neon. It is 1980. They are deep in concentration, chanting something about \"future music\" under their breath. Suddenly music starts to play. It sounds like the Talking Heads, but it is no song that David Byrne has ever heard before. The song fades, replaced by a similar synth drumbeat complete with handclaps. Deborah Harry could swear that’s her voice singing the song, but she doesn’t know the words. Adrian Belew hears the familiar backward guitar sound that he has mastered, but knows that he neither played this song nor sang the melody that sounds just like him.

Bowie has had enough! He opens his eyes and screams at the ceiling, “What is this? We put together this séance to find out what music will sound like in the future! This sounds just like what we’re already doing!!! Who is this? Who is making this music?”

“Yeah, what the hell?\" says Adam Ant, crinkling his nose and smudging his war paint.

A vocoder voice announces from somewhere in the 21st century: “This is Layton’s album, Grand Design.”

The séance quickly comes to an end because it’s time to watch Miami Vice.