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Talking Heads

January 01, 1970

For other uses, see Talking Heads (disambiguation).

Talking Heads were an American new wave band that formed in 1975 in New York City.[2] The band was composed of David Byrne (lead vocals, guitar), Chris Frantz (drums), Tina Weymouth (bass) and Jerry Harrison (keyboards, guitar). Described as "one of the most critically acclaimed bands of the '80s," Talking Heads helped to pioneer new wave music by combining elements of punk, art rock, funk, and world music with an anxious, clean-cut image.[6]

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Talking Heads c. 1980. Left to right: David Byrne, Jerry Harrison, Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz
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Also known asThe Artistics, Shrunken Heads, the Heads
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  • 1975–1991
  • 2002
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Byrne, Frantz, and Weymouth met as freshmen at the Rhode Island School of Design, where Byrne and Frantz were part of a band called the Artistics.[1]: 24  The trio moved to New York City in 1975, adopted the name Talking Heads, joined the New York punk scene, and recruited Harrison to round out the band.

Their debut album, Talking Heads: 77, was released in 1977 to positive reviews.[8] They collaborated with the British producer Brian Eno on the acclaimed albums More Songs About Buildings and Food (1978), Fear of Music (1979), and Remain in Light (1980), which blended their art school sensibilities with influence from artists such as Parliament-Funkadelic and Fela Kuti.[6] From the early 1980s, they included additional musicians in their recording sessions and shows, including guitarist Adrian Belew, keyboardist Bernie Worrell, singer Nona Hendryx, and bassist Busta Jones.

Talking Heads reached their commercial peak in 1983 with the U.S. Top 10 hit "Burning Down the House" from the album Speaking in Tongues. In 1984, they released the concert film Stop Making Sense, directed by Jonathan Demme. For these performances, they were joined by Worrell, the guitarist Alex Weir, the percussionist Steve Scales and the singers Lynn Mabry and Ednah Holt.[6] In 1985, Talking Heads released their best-selling album, Little Creatures. They produced a soundtrack album for Byrne's film True Stories (1986), and released their final album, worldbeat-influenced Naked (1988), before disbanding in 1991. Without Byrne, the other band members performed under the name Shrunken Heads, and released an album, No Talking, Just Head, as the Heads in 1996.

In 2002, Talking Heads were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Four of their albums appeared in Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time in 2003, and three of their songs ("Psycho Killer", "Life During Wartime", and "Once in a Lifetime") were included among the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll.[9] Talking Heads were also number 64 on VH1's list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time".[10] In the 2011 update of Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Artists of All Time", they were ranked number 100.[11]

History edit

1973–1977: Early years edit

In 1973, Rhode Island School of Design students David Byrne (guitar and vocals) and Chris Frantz (drums) formed a band, the Artistics.[1]: 28 [12] Fellow student Tina Weymouth, Frantz's girlfriend, often provided transportation. The Artistics dissolved the following year, and the three moved to New York City, eventually sharing a communal loft.[13] After they were unable to find a bassist, Weymouth took up the role. Frantz encouraged Weymouth to learn to play bass by listening to Suzi Quatro albums.[14] Byrne asked Weymouth to audition three times before she joined the band.[15]

 
Jerry Harrison & David Byrne on guitars Minneapolis in 1977

The band played their first gig as Talking Heads, opening for the Ramones at CBGB on June 5, 1975.[2] According to Weymouth, the name Talking Heads came from an issue of TV Guide, which "explained the term used by TV studios to describe a head-and-shoulder shot of a person talking as 'all content, no action'. It fit."[16] Later that year, the band recorded a series of demos for CBS, but did not receive a record contract. However, they drew a following and signed to Sire Records in November 1976. They released their first single in February the following year, "Love → Building on Fire". In March 1977, they added Jerry Harrison, formerly of Jonathan Richman's band the Modern Lovers, on keyboards, guitar, and backing vocals.[17]

The first Talking Heads album, Talking Heads: 77, received acclaim and produced their first charting single, "Psycho Killer".[18] Many connected the song to the serial killer known as the Son of Sam, who had been terrorizing New York City months earlier; however, Byrne said he had written the song years prior.[19] Weymouth and Frantz married in 1977.[20]

1978–1980: Collaborations with Brian Eno edit

Main articles: More Songs About Buildings and Food, Fear of Music, and Remain in Light

More Songs About Buildings and Food (1978) was Talking Heads' first collaboration with the producer Brian Eno, who had previously worked with Roxy Music, David Bowie, John Cale and Robert Fripp;[21] the title of Eno's 1977 song "King's Lead Hat" is an anagram of the band's name. Eno's unusual style meshed with the group's artistic sensibilities, and they began to explore an increasingly diverse range of musical directions, from post-punk to psychedelic funk to African music, influenced prominently by Fela Kuti and Parliament-Funkadelic.[22][23][24] This recording also established the band's relationship with Compass Point Studios in Nassau, Bahamas. More Songs About Buildings and Food included a cover of Al Green's "Take Me to the River". This took Talking Heads into the public consciousness and gave them their first Billboard Top 30 hit.[24]

 
Talking Heads perform. Pictured: Harrison (left) and Byrne.
 
Harrison (left), Frantz (middle) and Byrne (right) performing with Talking Heads in 1978

The collaboration continued with Fear of Music (1979), with the darker stylings of post-punk rock, mixed with white funkadelia and subliminal references to the geopolitical instability of the late 1970s.[24] Music journalist Simon Reynolds cited Fear of Music as representing the Eno-Talking Heads collaboration "at its most mutually fruitful and equitable".[25] The single "Life During Wartime" produced the catchphrase "This ain't no party, this ain't no disco".[26] The song refers to the Mudd Club and CBGB, two popular New York nightclubs of the time.[27]

Remain in Light (1980) was heavily influenced by the afrobeat of the Nigerian bandleader Fela Kuti, whose music Eno had introduced to the band. It explored West African polyrhythms, weaving these together with Arabic music from North Africa, disco funk, and "found" voices.[28] These combinations foreshadowed Byrne's later interest in world music.[29] In order to perform these more complex arrangements, the band toured with an expanded group, including Adrian Belew and Bernie Worrell, among others, first at the Heatwave festival in August,[30] and later in their concert film Stop Making Sense.[citation needed]

During this period, Weymouth and Frantz formed a commercially successful splinter group, Tom Tom Club, influenced by the foundational elements of hip hop,[31] and Harrison released his first solo album, The Red and the Black.[32] Byrne and Eno released My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, which incorporated world music, found sounds and a number of other prominent international and post-punk musicians.[33]

 
"Once in a Lifetime"
The fourth song from Remain in Light utilized Eno's Oblique Strategies technique and featured Byrne's alienated meditation on life. The song was named one of the 100 most important American musical works of the 20th century by NPR.[34]
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Remain in Light's lead single, "Once in a Lifetime", became a Top 20 hit in the UK, but initially failed to make an impression in the US. It grew into a popular standard over the next few years on the strength of its music video, which Time named one of the greatest of all time.[35][36]

1981–1991: Commercial peak and breakup edit

After releasing four albums in barely four years, the group went on a recording hiatus, and nearly three years passed before their next release, although Frantz and Weymouth continued to record with the Tom Tom Club. In the meantime, Talking Heads released a live album The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads, toured the United States and Europe as an eight-piece group, and parted ways with Eno,[37] who went on to produce albums with U2.[21]

1983 saw the release of Speaking in Tongues, a commercial breakthrough that produced the band's only American Top 10 hit, "Burning Down the House".[38] Once again, a striking video was inescapable owing to its heavy rotation on MTV.[39] The following tour was documented in Jonathan Demme's Stop Making Sense, which generated another live album of the same name.[40] The tour in support of Speaking in Tongues was their last.[41]

I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house… love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film, I sing it to a lamp.

—David Byrne, interviewing himself in Stop Making Sense[42]

Three more albums followed: 1985's Little Creatures (which featured the hit singles "And She Was" and "Road to Nowhere"),[43] 1986's True Stories (Talking Heads covering all the soundtrack songs of Byrne's musical comedy film, in which the band also appeared),[44] and 1988's Naked. Little Creatures offered a much more American pop-rock sound as opposed to previous efforts.[45] Similar in genre, True Stories hatched one of the group's most successful hits, "Wild Wild Life", and the accordion-driven track "Radio Head".[46] Naked explored politics, sex, and death, and showed heavy African influence with polyrhythmic styles like those seen on Remain in Light.[47] During that time, the group was falling increasingly under David Byrne's control and, after Naked, the band went on "hiatus".[6] In 1987 Talking Heads released a book by David Byrne called What the Songs Look Like: Contemporary Artists Interpret Talking Heads Songs with HarperCollins that contained artwork by some of the top New York visual artists of the decade.

 
Tina Weymouth, pictured here performing in 1986, and her husband Chris Frantz formed the side project Tom Tom Club.

In December 1991, Talking Heads announced that they had disbanded.[6] Frantz said that he learned that Byrne had left from an article in the Los Angeles Times, and said: "As far as we're concerned, the band never really broke up. David just decided to leave."[48] Their final release was "Sax and Violins", an original song that had appeared earlier that year on the soundtrack to Wim Wenders' Until the End of the World. Byrne continued his solo career, releasing Rei Momo in 1989 and The Forest in 1991.[29] This period also saw a revived flourish from both Tom Tom Club (Boom Boom Chi Boom Boom and Dark Sneak Love Action)[49] and Harrison (Casual Gods and Walk on Water), who toured together in 1990.[50]

1992–present: Post-breakup and reunions edit

Weymouth, Frantz, and Harrison toured without Byrne as Shrunken Heads in the early 1990s.[51] In 1996, they released an album, No Talking, Just Head, under the name the Heads. The album featured a number of vocalists, including Gavin Friday of The Virgin Prunes, Debbie Harry of Blondie, Johnette Napolitano of Concrete Blonde, Andy Partridge of XTC, Gordon Gano of Violent Femmes, Michael Hutchence of INXS, Ed Kowalczyk of Live, Shaun Ryder of Happy Mondays, Richard Hell, and Maria McKee.[52] It was accompanied by a tour with Napolitano as the vocalist. Byrne took legal action to prevent the band using the name The Heads, which he saw as "a pretty obvious attempt to cash in on the Talking Heads name".[53] The band briefly reunited in 1999 to promote the 15th anniversary re-release of Stop Making Sense, but did not perform together.[54]

Harrison produced records including the Violent Femmes' The Blind Leading the Naked, the Fine Young Cannibals' The Raw and the Cooked, General Public's Rub It Better, Crash Test Dummies' God Shuffled His Feet, Live's Mental Jewelry, Throwing Copper and The Distance to Here, and No Doubt's song "New" from Return of Saturn.[55] Frantz and Weymouth have produced several artists, including Happy Mondays and Ziggy Marley. The Tom Tom Club continue to record and tour intermittently.[56]

 
Weymouth, Frantz, and Harrison at SXSW in 2010

Talking Heads reunited to play "Life During Wartime", "Psycho Killer", and "Burning Down the House" on March 18, 2002, at the ceremony of their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, joined on stage by the former touring members Bernie Worrell and Steve Scales.[57] Byrne said further work together was unlikely, due to "bad blood" and being musically "miles apart".[58] Weymouth has been critical of Byrne, describing him as "a man incapable of returning friendship"[58] and saying that he did not "love" her, Frantz and Harrison.[14] In 2020, Frantz published a memoir about his relationship with Weymouth, Remain in Love, which covered the band's conflicts.[59]

In September 2023, Stop Making Sense was rereleased in IMAX with remastered sound and picture to coincide with the film's 40th anniversary.[60] The band members reunited that month for a Q&A at the Toronto International Film Festival, following limited showings of the film in theaters,[59][61] and gave subsequent interviews together to promote the rerelease.[62] With regard to the possibility of a reunion tour, Harrison told the Los Angeles Times: "Right now, we're concentrating on Stop Making Sense and how much fun we're having revisiting the film. We're living in the moment, so that's all we're thinking about."[63] In January 2024, Billboard reported that Talking Heads had turned down an $80 million offer for a reunion tour, which would have included a performance at Coachella.[64]

Influence edit

AllMusic stated that Talking Heads, one of the most celebrated bands of the 1970s and 1980s,[6] by the time of their breakup "had recorded everything from art-funk to polyrhythmic worldbeat explorations and simple, melodic guitar pop".[6] Talking Heads' art pop innovations have had a long-lasting impact.[65] Along with other groups such as Devo, Ramones, and Blondie, they helped define the new wave genre in the United States.[66] Meanwhile, their more cosmopolitan hits like 1980's Remain in Light helped bring African rock to the western world.[67]

Talking Heads have been cited as an influence by many artists, including Eddie Vedder,[68] LCD Soundsystem,[69] Foals,[70] the Weeknd,[71] Vampire Weekend,[72] Primus,[73] Bell X1,[74] the 1975,[75] the Ting Tings,[76] Nelly Furtado,[77] Kesha,[78] St. Vincent,[79] Danny Brown,[80] Trent Reznor[81] and Franz Ferdinand.[82] Radiohead took their name from the 1986 Talking Heads song "Radio Head",[83] and cited Remain in Light as a critical influence on their 2000 album Kid A.[84] The Italian filmmaker and director Paolo Sorrentino, receiving the Oscar for his film La Grande Bellezza in 2014, thanked Talking Heads, among others, as his sources of inspiration.[85]

Members edit

  • David Byrne – lead vocals, guitar (1975–1991, 2002)
  • Chris Frantz – drums, percussion, backing vocals (1975–1991, 2002)
  • Tina Weymouth – bass, backing vocals (1975–1991, 2002)
  • Jerry Harrison – keyboards, guitar, backing vocals (1977–1991, 2002)

Additional musicians edit

  • Adrian Belew – lead guitar, vocals (1980–1981)
  • Alex Weir – guitar, vocals (1982–1984)
  • Bernie Worrell – keyboards, backing vocals (1980–1984, 2002; died 2016)
  • Raymond Jones – keyboards (1982)
  • Busta Jones – bass (1980–1981; died 1995)
  • Steve Scales – percussion, backing vocals (1980–1984, 2002)
  • Dolette McDonald – vocals, cowbell (1980–1982)
  • Nona Hendryx – vocals (1980, 1982)
  • Ednah Holt – vocals (1983)
  • Lynn Mabry – vocals (1983–1984)
  • Stephanie Spruill – vocals (1984)

Timeline edit

Discography edit

Main article: Talking Heads discography

See also edit

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Further reading edit

  • Bowman, David (3 April 2001). This Must Be the Place: The Adventures of Talking Heads in the Twentieth Century (First ed.). New York: HarperEntertainment. ISBN 978-0380978465. LCCN 00046082. OCLC 44914246. OL 7435999M. Retrieved 3 January 2023 – via the Internet Archive.
  • Byrne, David (12 September 2012). How Music Works. San Francisco: McSweeney's. ISBN 978-1936365531. LCCN 2017561795. OCLC 746834427. OL 26882017M. Retrieved 3 January 2023 – via the Internet Archive.
  • Frantz, Chris (21 July 2020). Remain in Love: Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Tina (Illustrated ed.). New York: St. Martin's Publishing. ISBN 978-1250209221. LCCN 2020002700. OCLC 1137735530. OL 28244911M.
  • Reese, Krista (1982). The Name of This Book Is Talking Heads. London: Proteus Books. ISBN 0-86276-057-7.
  • Steenstra, Sytze (2010). Song and Circumstance: The Work of David Byrne from Talking Heads to the Present. New York and London: Continuum Books. ISBN 978-08264-4168-3.
  • Talking Heads; Olinsky, Frank (1987). What the Songs Look Like: Contemporary Artists Interpret Talking Heads Songs. New York: Harper & Row. ISBN 0-06-096205-4..
  • Wilcox, Tyler (October 3, 2016). "Talking Heads' Road to Remain in Light". Pitchfork.

External links edit

  • Official website
  • Talking Heads at Curlie
  • Entry at 45cat.com
  • Talking Heads at AllMusic  
  • Talking Heads discography at Discogs
  • Talking Heads at IMDb
  • Talking Heads discography at MusicBrainz  

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For other uses see Talking Heads disambiguation Talking Heads were an American new wave band that formed in 1975 in New York City 2 The band was composed of David Byrne lead vocals guitar Chris Frantz drums Tina Weymouth bass and Jerry Harrison keyboards guitar Described as one of the most critically acclaimed bands of the 80s Talking Heads helped to pioneer new wave music by combining elements of punk art rock funk and world music with an anxious clean cut image 6 Talking HeadsTalking Heads c 1980 Left to right David Byrne Jerry Harrison Tina Weymouth Chris FrantzBackground informationAlso known asThe Artistics Shrunken Heads the HeadsOriginProvidence Rhode Island U S 1 24 New York City U S GenresNew wave 2 post punk 3 avant funk 4 art pop 5 worldbeat 6 dance rock 7 DiscographyTalking Heads discographyYears active1975 19912002LabelsSire Warner Bros SpinoffsTom Tom Club Casual Gods The HeadsPast membersDavid Byrne Chris Frantz Tina Weymouth Jerry HarrisonWebsitetalkingheadsofficial wbr comByrne Frantz and Weymouth met as freshmen at the Rhode Island School of Design where Byrne and Frantz were part of a band called the Artistics 1 24 The trio moved to New York City in 1975 adopted the name Talking Heads joined the New York punk scene and recruited Harrison to round out the band Their debut album Talking Heads 77 was released in 1977 to positive reviews 8 They collaborated with the British producer Brian Eno on the acclaimed albums More Songs About Buildings and Food 1978 Fear of Music 1979 and Remain in Light 1980 which blended their art school sensibilities with influence from artists such as Parliament Funkadelic and Fela Kuti 6 From the early 1980s they included additional musicians in their recording sessions and shows including guitarist Adrian Belew keyboardist Bernie Worrell singer Nona Hendryx and bassist Busta Jones Talking Heads reached their commercial peak in 1983 with the U S Top 10 hit Burning Down the House from the album Speaking in Tongues In 1984 they released the concert film Stop Making Sense directed by Jonathan Demme For these performances they were joined by Worrell the guitarist Alex Weir the percussionist Steve Scales and the singers Lynn Mabry and Ednah Holt 6 In 1985 Talking Heads released their best selling album Little Creatures They produced a soundtrack album for Byrne s film True Stories 1986 and released their final album worldbeat influenced Naked 1988 before disbanding in 1991 Without Byrne the other band members performed under the name Shrunken Heads and released an album No Talking Just Head as the Heads in 1996 In 2002 Talking Heads were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Four of their albums appeared in Rolling Stone s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time in 2003 and three of their songs Psycho Killer Life During Wartime and Once in a Lifetime were included among the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame s 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll 9 Talking Heads were also number 64 on VH1 s list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time 10 In the 2011 update of Rolling Stone s 100 Greatest Artists of All Time they were ranked number 100 11 Contents 1 History 1 1 1973 1977 Early years 1 2 1978 1980 Collaborations with Brian Eno 1 3 1981 1991 Commercial peak and breakup 1 4 1992 present Post breakup and reunions 2 Influence 3 Members 3 1 Additional musicians 3 2 Timeline 4 Discography 5 See also 6 References 7 Further reading 8 External linksHistory edit1973 1977 Early years edit In 1973 Rhode Island School of Design students David Byrne guitar and vocals and Chris Frantz drums formed a band the Artistics 1 28 12 Fellow student Tina Weymouth Frantz s girlfriend often provided transportation The Artistics dissolved the following year and the three moved to New York City eventually sharing a communal loft 13 After they were unable to find a bassist Weymouth took up the role Frantz encouraged Weymouth to learn to play bass by listening to Suzi Quatro albums 14 Byrne asked Weymouth to audition three times before she joined the band 15 nbsp Jerry Harrison amp David Byrne on guitars Minneapolis in 1977The band played their first gig as Talking Heads opening for the Ramones at CBGB on June 5 1975 2 According to Weymouth the name Talking Heads came from an issue of TV Guide which explained the term used by TV studios to describe a head and shoulder shot of a person talking as all content no action It fit 16 Later that year the band recorded a series of demos for CBS but did not receive a record contract However they drew a following and signed to Sire Records in November 1976 They released their first single in February the following year Love Building on Fire In March 1977 they added Jerry Harrison formerly of Jonathan Richman s band the Modern Lovers on keyboards guitar and backing vocals 17 The first Talking Heads album Talking Heads 77 received acclaim and produced their first charting single Psycho Killer 18 Many connected the song to the serial killer known as the Son of Sam who had been terrorizing New York City months earlier however Byrne said he had written the song years prior 19 Weymouth and Frantz married in 1977 20 1978 1980 Collaborations with Brian Eno edit Main articles More Songs About Buildings and Food Fear of Music and Remain in Light More Songs About Buildings and Food 1978 was Talking Heads first collaboration with the producer Brian Eno who had previously worked with Roxy Music David Bowie John Cale and Robert Fripp 21 the title of Eno s 1977 song King s Lead Hat is an anagram of the band s name Eno s unusual style meshed with the group s artistic sensibilities and they began to explore an increasingly diverse range of musical directions from post punk to psychedelic funk to African music influenced prominently by Fela Kuti and Parliament Funkadelic 22 23 24 This recording also established the band s relationship with Compass Point Studios in Nassau Bahamas More Songs About Buildings and Food included a cover of Al Green s Take Me to the River This took Talking Heads into the public consciousness and gave them their first Billboard Top 30 hit 24 nbsp Talking Heads perform Pictured Harrison left and Byrne nbsp Harrison left Frantz middle and Byrne right performing with Talking Heads in 1978The collaboration continued with Fear of Music 1979 with the darker stylings of post punk rock mixed with white funkadelia and subliminal references to the geopolitical instability of the late 1970s 24 Music journalist Simon Reynolds cited Fear of Music as representing the Eno Talking Heads collaboration at its most mutually fruitful and equitable 25 The single Life During Wartime produced the catchphrase This ain t no party this ain t no disco 26 The song refers to the Mudd Club and CBGB two popular New York nightclubs of the time 27 Remain in Light 1980 was heavily influenced by the afrobeat of the Nigerian bandleader Fela Kuti whose music Eno had introduced to the band It explored West African polyrhythms weaving these together with Arabic music from North Africa disco funk and found voices 28 These combinations foreshadowed Byrne s later interest in world music 29 In order to perform these more complex arrangements the band toured with an expanded group including Adrian Belew and Bernie Worrell among others first at the Heatwave festival in August 30 and later in their concert film Stop Making Sense citation needed During this period Weymouth and Frantz formed a commercially successful splinter group Tom Tom Club influenced by the foundational elements of hip hop 31 and Harrison released his first solo album The Red and the Black 32 Byrne and Eno released My Life in the Bush of Ghosts which incorporated world music found sounds and a number of other prominent international and post punk musicians 33 nbsp Once in a Lifetime source source track The fourth song from Remain in Light utilized Eno s Oblique Strategies technique and featured Byrne s alienated meditation on life The song was named one of the 100 most important American musical works of the 20th century by NPR 34 Problems playing this file See media help Remain in Light s lead single Once in a Lifetime became a Top 20 hit in the UK but initially failed to make an impression in the US It grew into a popular standard over the next few years on the strength of its music video which Time named one of the greatest of all time 35 36 1981 1991 Commercial peak and breakup edit After releasing four albums in barely four years the group went on a recording hiatus and nearly three years passed before their next release although Frantz and Weymouth continued to record with the Tom Tom Club In the meantime Talking Heads released a live album The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads toured the United States and Europe as an eight piece group and parted ways with Eno 37 who went on to produce albums with U2 21 1983 saw the release of Speaking in Tongues a commercial breakthrough that produced the band s only American Top 10 hit Burning Down the House 38 Once again a striking video was inescapable owing to its heavy rotation on MTV 39 The following tour was documented in Jonathan Demme s Stop Making Sense which generated another live album of the same name 40 The tour in support of Speaking in Tongues was their last 41 I try to write about small things Paper animals a house love is kind of big I have written a love song though In this film I sing it to a lamp David Byrne interviewing himself in Stop Making Sense 42 Three more albums followed 1985 s Little Creatures which featured the hit singles And She Was and Road to Nowhere 43 1986 s True Stories Talking Heads covering all the soundtrack songs of Byrne s musical comedy film in which the band also appeared 44 and 1988 s Naked Little Creatures offered a much more American pop rock sound as opposed to previous efforts 45 Similar in genre True Stories hatched one of the group s most successful hits Wild Wild Life and the accordion driven track Radio Head 46 Naked explored politics sex and death and showed heavy African influence with polyrhythmic styles like those seen on Remain in Light 47 During that time the group was falling increasingly under David Byrne s control and after Naked the band went on hiatus 6 In 1987 Talking Heads released a book by David Byrne called What the Songs Look Like Contemporary Artists Interpret Talking Heads Songs with HarperCollins that contained artwork by some of the top New York visual artists of the decade nbsp Tina Weymouth pictured here performing in 1986 and her husband Chris Frantz formed the side project Tom Tom Club In December 1991 Talking Heads announced that they had disbanded 6 Frantz said that he learned that Byrne had left from an article in the Los Angeles Times and said As far as we re concerned the band never really broke up David just decided to leave 48 Their final release was Sax and Violins an original song that had appeared earlier that year on the soundtrack to Wim Wenders Until the End of the World Byrne continued his solo career releasing Rei Momo in 1989 and The Forest in 1991 29 This period also saw a revived flourish from both Tom Tom Club Boom Boom Chi Boom Boom and Dark Sneak Love Action 49 and Harrison Casual Gods and Walk on Water who toured together in 1990 50 1992 present Post breakup and reunions edit Weymouth Frantz and Harrison toured without Byrne as Shrunken Heads in the early 1990s 51 In 1996 they released an album No Talking Just Head under the name the Heads The album featured a number of vocalists including Gavin Friday of The Virgin Prunes Debbie Harry of Blondie Johnette Napolitano of Concrete Blonde Andy Partridge of XTC Gordon Gano of Violent Femmes Michael Hutchence of INXS Ed Kowalczyk of Live Shaun Ryder of Happy Mondays Richard Hell and Maria McKee 52 It was accompanied by a tour with Napolitano as the vocalist Byrne took legal action to prevent the band using the name The Heads which he saw as a pretty obvious attempt to cash in on the Talking Heads name 53 The band briefly reunited in 1999 to promote the 15th anniversary re release of Stop Making Sense but did not perform together 54 Harrison produced records including the Violent Femmes The Blind Leading the Naked the Fine Young Cannibals The Raw and the Cooked General Public s Rub It Better Crash Test Dummies God Shuffled His Feet Live s Mental Jewelry Throwing Copper and The Distance to Here and No Doubt s song New from Return of Saturn 55 Frantz and Weymouth have produced several artists including Happy Mondays and Ziggy Marley The Tom Tom Club continue to record and tour intermittently 56 nbsp Weymouth Frantz and Harrison at SXSW in 2010Talking Heads reunited to play Life During Wartime Psycho Killer and Burning Down the House on March 18 2002 at the ceremony of their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame joined on stage by the former touring members Bernie Worrell and Steve Scales 57 Byrne said further work together was unlikely due to bad blood and being musically miles apart 58 Weymouth has been critical of Byrne describing him as a man incapable of returning friendship 58 and saying that he did not love her Frantz and Harrison 14 In 2020 Frantz published a memoir about his relationship with Weymouth Remain in Love which covered the band s conflicts 59 In September 2023 Stop Making Sense was rereleased in IMAX with remastered sound and picture to coincide with the film s 40th anniversary 60 The band members reunited that month for a Q amp A at the Toronto International Film Festival following limited showings of the film in theaters 59 61 and gave subsequent interviews together to promote the rerelease 62 With regard to the possibility of a reunion tour Harrison told the Los Angeles Times Right now we re concentrating on Stop Making Sense and how much fun we re having revisiting the film We re living in the moment so that s all we re thinking about 63 In January 2024 Billboard reported that Talking Heads had turned down an 80 million offer for a reunion tour which would have included a performance at Coachella 64 Influence editAllMusic stated that Talking Heads one of the most celebrated bands of the 1970s and 1980s 6 by the time of their breakup had recorded everything from art funk to polyrhythmic worldbeat explorations and simple melodic guitar pop 6 Talking Heads art pop innovations have had a long lasting impact 65 Along with other groups such as Devo Ramones and Blondie they helped define the new wave genre in the United States 66 Meanwhile their more cosmopolitan hits like 1980 s Remain in Light helped bring African rock to the western world 67 Talking Heads have been cited as an influence by many artists including Eddie Vedder 68 LCD Soundsystem 69 Foals 70 the Weeknd 71 Vampire Weekend 72 Primus 73 Bell X1 74 the 1975 75 the Ting Tings 76 Nelly Furtado 77 Kesha 78 St Vincent 79 Danny Brown 80 Trent Reznor 81 and Franz Ferdinand 82 Radiohead took their name from the 1986 Talking Heads song Radio Head 83 and cited Remain in Light as a critical influence on their 2000 album Kid A 84 The Italian filmmaker and director Paolo Sorrentino receiving the Oscar for his film La Grande Bellezza in 2014 thanked Talking Heads among others as his sources of inspiration 85 Members editDavid Byrne lead vocals guitar 1975 1991 2002 Chris Frantz drums percussion backing vocals 1975 1991 2002 Tina Weymouth bass backing vocals 1975 1991 2002 Jerry Harrison keyboards guitar backing vocals 1977 1991 2002 Additional musicians edit Adrian Belew lead guitar vocals 1980 1981 Alex Weir guitar vocals 1982 1984 Bernie Worrell keyboards backing vocals 1980 1984 2002 died 2016 Raymond Jones keyboards 1982 Busta Jones bass 1980 1981 died 1995 Steve Scales percussion backing vocals 1980 1984 2002 Dolette McDonald vocals cowbell 1980 1982 Nona Hendryx vocals 1980 1982 Ednah Holt vocals 1983 Lynn Mabry vocals 1983 1984 Stephanie Spruill vocals 1984 Timeline editDiscography editMain article Talking Heads 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Beauty Variety Retrieved May 4 2014 Further reading editBowman David 3 April 2001 This Must Be the Place The Adventures of Talking Heads in the Twentieth Century First ed New York HarperEntertainment ISBN 978 0380978465 LCCN 00046082 OCLC 44914246 OL 7435999M Retrieved 3 January 2023 via the Internet Archive Byrne David 12 September 2012 How Music Works San Francisco McSweeney s ISBN 978 1936365531 LCCN 2017561795 OCLC 746834427 OL 26882017M Retrieved 3 January 2023 via the Internet Archive Frantz Chris 21 July 2020 Remain in Love Talking Heads Tom Tom Club Tina Illustrated ed New York St Martin s Publishing ISBN 978 1250209221 LCCN 2020002700 OCLC 1137735530 OL 28244911M Reese Krista 1982 The Name of This Book Is Talking Heads London Proteus Books ISBN 0 86276 057 7 Steenstra Sytze 2010 Song and Circumstance The Work of David Byrne from Talking Heads to the Present New York and London Continuum Books ISBN 978 08264 4168 3 Talking Heads Olinsky Frank 1987 What the Songs Look Like Contemporary Artists Interpret Talking Heads Songs New York Harper amp Row ISBN 0 06 096205 4 Wilcox Tyler October 3 2016 Talking Heads Road to Remain in Light Pitchfork External links editTalking Heads at Wikipedia s sister projects nbsp Media from Commons nbsp Quotations from Wikiquote nbsp Data from Wikidata Official website Talking Heads at Curlie Entry at 45cat com Talking Heads at AllMusic nbsp Talking Heads discography at Discogs Talking Heads at IMDb Talking Heads discography at MusicBrainz nbsp Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Talking Heads amp oldid 1218834858, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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