Talking Heads: Speaking in Tongues (Sire)
Richard Cook, NME, 11 June 1983
DAVID BYRNE is a man with a moon in his throat, is an intellect nervously filling out a fool's cap and greasepaint, is the writer and strategist of Speaking In Tongues.
Total word count of piece: 733
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