Talking Heads were an American new wave band 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 yet clean-cut image".[6]
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 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 the CBGB club 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]Gary Kurfirst started managing the Talking Heads in 1977.[18]
The first Talking Heads album, Talking Heads: 77, received acclaim and produced their first charting single, "Psycho Killer".[19] 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.[20] Weymouth and Frantz married in 1977.[21]
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.[25] Music journalist Simon Reynolds cited Fear of Music as representing the Eno-Talking Heads collaboration "at its most mutually fruitful and equitable".[26] The single "Life During Wartime" produced the catchphrase "This ain't no party, this ain't no disco".[27] The song refers to the Mudd Club and CBGB, two popular New York nightclubs of the time.[28]
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.[29] These combinations foreshadowed Byrne's later interest in world music.[30] 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,[31] 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,[32] and Harrison released his first solo album, The Red and the Black.[33] 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.[34]
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.[35]
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.[36][37]
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,[38] who went on to produce albums with U2.[22]
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.
Three more albums followed: 1985's Little Creatures (which featured the hit singles "And She Was" and "Road to Nowhere"),[44] 1986's True Stories (Talking Heads covering all the soundtrack songs of Byrne's musical comedy film, in which the band also appeared),[45] and 1988's Naked. Little Creatures offered a much more American pop-rock sound as opposed to previous efforts.[46] Similar in genre, True Stories hatched one of the group's most successful hits, "Wild Wild Life", and the accordion-driven track "Radio Head".[47]Naked explored politics, sex, and death, and showed heavy African influence with polyrhythmic styles like those seen on Remain in Light.[48] 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."[49] 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.[30] This period also saw a revived flourish from both Tom Tom Club (Boom Boom Chi Boom Boom and Dark Sneak Love Action)[50] and Harrison (Casual Gods and Walk on Water), who toured together in 1990.[51]
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.[58] Byrne said further work together was unlikely, due to "bad blood" and being musically "miles apart".[59] Weymouth has been critical of Byrne, describing him as "a man incapable of returning friendship"[59] 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.[60]
In September 2023, Stop Making Sense was rereleased in IMAX with remastered sound and picture to coincide with the film's 40th anniversary.[61] The band members reunited that month for a Q&A at the Toronto International Film Festival, following limited showings of the film in theaters,[60][62] and gave subsequent interviews together to promote the rerelease.[63] 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."[64] 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.[65]
Influence
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.[66] Along with other groups such as Devo, Ramones, and Blondie, they helped define the new wave genre in the United States.[67] Meanwhile, their more cosmopolitan hits like 1980's Remain in Light helped bring African rock to the western world.[68]
^Gittins, Ian, Talking Heads: Once in a Lifetime: the Stories Behind Every Song, Hal Leonard Corporation, 2004, p. 140. ISBN0-634-08033-4, ISBN978-0-634-08033-3.
^Simon Reynolds. Rip It up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978–1984. Penguin Books (2005) p. 159.
^Boehm, Mike (September 10, 1992). "x-Heads Say They Got Byrned: Split Still Miffs Frantz, Weymouth, Even Though Tom Tom Club Keeps Them Busy". Los Angeles Times.
^Inskeep, Steve and Reena Advani, Phil Harrell, Daoud Tyler-Ameen (September 22, 2023). "The everyday can be just fine". Morning Edition. NPR. Retrieved September 22, 2023. the new release's remastered sound and picture, projected in... IMAX{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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