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Talking Heads - Same as it ever was?

Jim Irvin, Word, The, February 2006

I MAY BE mistaken but, as I recall it, the term 'New Wave' was coined to accommodate Talking Heads. Publicists needed a tag other than 'punk rock' when the Heads first appeared in the UK supporting fellow Sire act, The Ramones.

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