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Talking Heads: The Rock Garden, London

Live Review by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, 21 May 1977

WHY NOT somewhere that can handle crowds properly, like the Nashville? Why on earth were Talking Heads put on at the Rock Garden? Do answer ...

Talking Heads: Still Making Sense?

Profile and Interview by Steve Turner, Q, April 1988

Talking Heads were once unconventional art-school types looking for an audience on the underground rock circuit. Now they’re unconventional multi-media types who convene annually for ...

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Talking Heads (1978)

Interview by Ian Ravendale, Rock's Backpages audio, 27 January 1978

Messrs. Frantz, Harrison and (mostly) Byrne talk about the early days in NYC, the CBGBs scene, Harrison joining from the Modern Lovers, their first album and its (and their) reception.

File format: mp3; file size: 8.8mb, interview length: 21' 52" sound quality: *****

Talking Heads' David Byrne (1980)

Interview by Van Gosse, Rock's Backpages audio, September 1980

The Heads' head talks in depth about new album Remain In Light, tensions within the band, his interest in World Music and much more.

File format: mp3; file size: 71.6mb, interview length: 1h 18' 13" sound quality: **

Talking Heads' Tina Weymouth (1996)

Interview by Jim Sullivan, Rock's Backpages audio, 4 October 1996

Bass player Weymouth talks about No Talking, Just Head, the album by the Heads, Talking Heads minus David Byrne; Byrne's refusal to rejoin the band; their complicated legal and personal relationship; working with other singers like Debbie Harry, Richard Hell and Andy Partridge; playing live with singer Johnette Napolitano, and on being a woman bass player.

File format: mp3; file size: 45.2mb, interview length: 47' 07" sound quality: ** (phoner)

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N.Y. Club's Talent Search: Anybody Listening?

Report by Ed McCormack, Rolling Stone, 23 October 1975

NEW YORK — The gaudy white awning of CBGB shines like a lighthouse for freaks amid the darkened, derelict-strewn doorways of the Bowery — where ...

New York: The Sound Of '75

Report by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 8 November 1975

"BEAT ON the brat, beat on the brat, beat on the brat with a baseball bat..." ...

Punk Rock: Its Day Will Come

Report by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 25 January 1976

IF YOU thought Jefferson Airplane was a weird name, let some of these drop off your tongue. Talking Heads. Tuff Darts. Ramones. Planets. Heartbreakers. Shirts. ...

Talking Heads Hyperventilate Some Clichés

Report by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 2 February 1976

TALKING HEADS offers a fragile middle finger to bands in which anonymous sidemen play powerhouse back-up through a Luftwaffe of amplifiers, while the man with ...

Ramones & Heads: Punk Art?

Report and Interview by Toby Goldstein, Crawdaddy!, February 1977

NEW YORK — The glittered frenzy of recent years has receded into a brooding severity of black and grays. The punk-rockers, newest manifestations of media ...

The Ramones: Punk City Night

Interview by Gary Kenton, Circus, 17 March 1977

The Ramones Leave Home While Talking Heads and Mumps Play the Bowery ...

Talking Heads: CBGBs, New York NY

Live Review by Miles, New Musical Express, 2 April 1977

Yes, but who nicked the bog door? ...

Talking Heads: This Is A Minimalist Headline

Interview by Miles, New Musical Express, 23 April 1977

...for MILES' neo-structuralist look at New York hotshots Talking Heads ...

Talking Heads: Rock Garden, London

Live Review by Richard Williams, The Times, 16 May 1977

TWO ROCK bands from New York, both conveniently accepted as constituents of the current New Wave, are actually proposing a fresh and promising direction for ...

Talking Heads: "We're Not Punks!" "We're Not Punks!" "We're Not Punks!" "We're Not Punks!"

Profile and Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 21 May 1977

Not just another Noo Wave Band From Noo Yawk, says GIOVANNI DADOMO ...

Talking Heads: Rock Garden, London

Live Review by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 21 May 1977

AS FAR AS I'm concerned, this last week has been a monumental one for live rock. ...

Talking Heads: Rock Garden, London

Live Review by Caroline Coon, Melody Maker, 21 May 1977

IN AN unpretentious, un-hyped way, the Talking Heads' UK debut — two warm-up nights at the Rock Garden, Covent Garden, prior to their tour with ...

Talking Heads: Talking Headquarters

Interview by Caroline Coon, Melody Maker, 21 May 1977

Talking Heads, the latest New York new wave band to tour Britain, talk to Caroline Coon ...

The Ramones: Gabba Gabba Hey In The UK

Live Review by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, 28 May 1977

The Ramones/Talking Heads: Eric's, Liverpool ...

The Ramones, Talking Heads, The Saints: The Roundhouse, London

Live Review by Jon Savage, Sounds, 18 June 1977

AND I'M supposed to be objective about these guys when I've lived with their first album for 15 months? When that was one of last ...

Talking Heads: Are These Guys Trying To Give Rock A Bad Name?

Profile and Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 25 June 1977

TALKING HEADS: it's a term they use up in the high-rise skyscrapers that house all the cogs in the corporate machinery cranking out network television ...

Talking Heads: Tina Weymouth

Interview by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 25 June 1977

ALRIGHT, I'm impressed. Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz are one of the hottest rhythm sections I've seen. I expected a lot of the Talking Heads ...

Talking Heads: Love Goes To Building On Fire

Report and Interview by Gary Pig Gold, The Pig Paper, October 1977

Talking Heads, New Yorker Theatre, Toronto, Midnight 16 Sept '77 ...

Talking Heads: '77

Review by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 1 October 1977

I'd like to offer up a small prayer at this point. Here it is. Thank heavens for the Talking Heads. ...

Talking Heads: Talking Heads '77; Richard Hell & The Voidoids: Blank Generation

Review by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 8 October 1977

LAST MONTH the more alert London habituee got the chance to compare England's new wave inner-workings with those of its fore-runner over in New York ...

Talking Heads: Making heady music out of school

Interview by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 9 October 1977

IT IS only three years since three friends from the Rhode Island School of Design moved to New York, bent on developing their careers as ...

The Possibilities of Punk

Comment by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 10 October 1977

UP UNTIL about six months ago, CBGB's was the only rock bar I ever felt comfortable in. All you needed was a long scarf and ...

Talking Heads: Psycho-Killer, Qu'est-ce Que C'est?

Interview by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 22 October 1977

QUESTION: When is a door not a door? ...

New York Lights Up With Soggy Matches!

Overview by Robert Duncan, Creem, November 1977

A Consumer Guide To Rock's Last Drag by Robert Drizzle Duncan ...

Talking Heads: Talking Heads: 77

Review by Stephen Demorest, Rolling Stone, 3 November 1977

TALKING HEADS are the last of CBGB's original Big Four to record (following Patti Smith, the Ramones and Television), and their debut is an absolute ...

Talking Heads: Talking Heads: 77 (Sire)

Review by Richard C. Walls, Creem, December 1977

AFTER WRITING reviews for eight years, one learns to ignore the press releases that accompany promo copies or at least to read them with a ...

Talking Heads

Interview by Radio Pete, Rocky Mountain Musical Express, January 1978

TALKING HEADS are a quartet; David Byrne guitar and vocals, Martina Weymouth bass, Chris Frantz drums, and Jerry Harrison on keyboards and guitar. They play ...

Talking Heads Approach Art Rock from the Right Direction

Interview by Howard Wuelfing, Unicorn Times, January 1978

TALKING HEADS are certainly not the only rock group ever to be designated "intellectuals." They are, however, the first to wear that description gracefully; they ...

Talking Heads/Heaters: Whisky A Go Go, Los Angeles, CA

Live Review by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 14 January 1978

HEATERS: A band for people who like little boys. A punkoid Our Kid, with mop-tops, waistcoats, ties and short-sleeved shirts. A cute little bassist, a ...

Talking Heads

Report and Interview by Penny Valentine, Melody Maker, 28 January 1978

Penny Valentine reports from the Talking Heads tour ...

Talking Heads, Dire Straits: Sheffield University, Sheffield

Live Review by Andy Gill, New Musical Express, 28 January 1978

How 77 moves smoothly into '78 ...

Talking Heads: Newcastle Poly, Newcastle

Live Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 4 February 1978

TALKING HEADS are one of those bands who are so good you have to be careful to avoid falling into telling the world they are ...

Talking Heads: The Heads Case

Interview by Paul Rambali, New Musical Express, 4 February 1978

An investigation of the theory behind TALKING HEAD music. ...

David Byrne: Talking Off The Top Of His Head

Interview by Tim Lott, Record Mirror, 11 February 1978

I HAVE THIS talking head in front of me. In his talking mouth he is spooning scrambled eggs and bacon. So much for input. The ...

Talking Heads

Interview by Michael Gross, SoHo Weekly News, 13 April 1978

IN 1975 THEY lived on Chrystie St., a block filled with some of the city's more economical courtesans, in a cold water loft, and they ...

Talking Heads: More Songs About Buildings and Food

Review by Roy Trakin, New York Rocker, July 1978

Head and Shoulders Above ...

Talking Heads: More Songs About Buildings And Food (Sire)

Review by Ian Birch, Melody Maker, 15 July 1978

David Byrne (singing, guitars, synthesized percussion); Chris Frantz (drums, percussion); Jerry Harrison (piano, organs, synthesizer, guitar, background vocals); Tina Weymouth (bass) and Brian Eno (synthesizers, ...

Talking Heads: Lyceum, London

Live Review by Paul Rambali, New Musical Express, 22 July 1978

MORE FOOD FOR THOUGHT ...

Talking Heads: More words about Eno and art

Interview by Ian Birch, Melody Maker, 29 July 1978

Ian Birch meets Talking Heads ...

Talking Heads: More Songs About Buildings and Food (Sire)

Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, September 1978

SUCH A CIVILISED BAND. You may think this is no way to run a review but I'm going to quote all the words to one ...

Don't Step On My Gray Canvas Shoes: New Albums from Talking Heads, Ramones, Devo et al

Review by Howard Wuelfing, Unicorn Times, November 1978

IN EXAMINING Talking Heads' latest release, More Songs About Buildings and Food (Sire, SRK 6058), we encounter a disturbing new twist upon several crucial new ...

Talking Heads: Les Talking Heads a la Carte

Report and Interview by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 28 July 1979

THE SCENE: Paris, France, July 10. Bastille Day looms, Talking Heads and their 'guests' The B52s have just completed a mini-European jaunt minus Great Britain. ...

Taking Heads: Fear Of Music (Sire)

Review by Paul Rambali, New Musical Express, 18 August 1979

TOM WOLFE ONCE wrote a book called The Painted Word, a thin volume of accomplished iconoclasm. In it he traces the rise and rise of ...

Talking Heads: Fear Of Music (Sire SRK 6076) *****

Review by David Hepworth, Sounds, 18 August 1979

Don't eat, talk ...

Talking Heads: Fear Of Music (Sire/Warner Bros. SD-6076)

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 23 September 1979

THE TALKING HEADS' FEARS, FIXATIONS ...

Talking Heads

Interview by Barbara Charone, Creem, October 1979

BLAME THE AUSTRALIANS for putting them at the top of the charts. Hold all of New Zealand responsible for making More Songs About Buildings and ...

Talking Heads: Greek Theatre, Los Angeles

Live Review by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 13 October 1979

DON'T KNOW quite what it is, but those skinny American men with high voices have got something. Maybe it's the weekly shot of Charles Atlas ...

Talking Heads: Fear of Music

Review by Robot A. Hull, Creem, November 1979

"Seems I was holding a wrench, mommaAnd then my mind just walked away."– Jack Kittel, ‘Psycho’ ...

Talking Heads: De Montfort Hall, Leicester

Live Review by Ian Birch, Melody Maker, 1 December 1979

THE apres-gig lig is, as usual, gruesome. ...

Talking Heads: Talking Head First

Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 22 December 1979

A HIRE CAR draws up at an address in Soho, and three members of Talking Heads troop into the Cine-Lingual building, Berwick Street. ...

Talking Heads' Jerry Harrison

Interview by Kris Needs, ZigZag, January 1980

JERRY HARRISON plays keyboards and guitar for Talking Heads. Usually it's David Byrne, ostrich-like singer-songwriter-guitarist, who gets seized on by writers after hot poop on ...

Brian Eno: Energy Fails The Magician

Interview by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 12 January 1980

After spending the last decade redefining rock music, all Brian Eno wants now is an honest job of work and a place to lay his ...

Talking Heads: Remain In Light

Review by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 25 October 1980

THE DESIRE to (re)discover the African continent has been burning deep in the bowels of curious imagination ever since the New York Herald packed Mr ...

Talking Heads: Remain In Light

Review by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 25 October 1980

WELL ALRIGHT, I may never be going back to my old school, but I remember a saying they had out in the yard that's one ...

Heatwave Festival: Crouching Towards Bowmanville Or Elvis: What Happened?

Report by Susan Whitall, Creem, November 1980

I MUST confess to hating "rock festivals" with some passion. My response to the rhetorical "Would you have gone to Woodstock?" question has always been ...

Heatwave Festival: Punk Woodstock Meets The Ugly American

Report by Dave DiMartino, Creem, November 1980

JUST OUT of the Detroit-Windsor tunnel, a friend and I are fighting a losing battle. We're trying to take Canada seriously.  ...

Talking Heads: Dr Pepper Music Festival, Wollman Skating Rink, Central Park NY

Live Review by Fred Schruers, Musician, November 1980

THE TALKING Heads' avowed inspiration, when they began as a trio in 1976, was boredom with the contemporary art scene. The homemade music they began ...

The Transfiguration of Talking Heads

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 2 November 1980

VISITING A rock star at a Hollywood hotel is usually a bit like attending the circus, with publicists, aides, new and old friends, ringing phones, ...

Free Your Ass And Your Head Will Follow

Interview by Paul Rambali, New Musical Express, 8 November 1980

Doctor Byrne discovers Africa and funk but makes the natives restless ...

Talking Heads and The Beat at the Greek Theater Los Angeles

Live Review by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 8 November 1980

THIS WAS no mere toe-tapper. We're talking worn shoe-leather tonight, holes in the soles and corns on the toes, sore feet in a venue more ...

Talking Heads: Nine Heads Are Better Than Four

Report and Interview by Don Snowden, Ampersand, December 1980

"I'M ALWAYS A little surprised at our success because I know we're a little unusual," David Byrne muses softly on the eve of the first ...

Talking Heads: Hammersmith Palais, London

Live Review by Mick Brown, The Guardian, 3 December 1980

DESPITE HAVING sold barely enough records in Britain in the past to cover printing costs, and despite their live performances sometimes resembling a well-kept secret, ...

Talking Heads: Hammersmith Palais, London

Live Review by Richard Williams, The Times, 3 December 1980

TALKING HEADS opened with 'Psychokiller', their early anthem which contains the line: "Say something once, why say it again?" One may justifiably express certain reservations ...

Talking Heads: Remain In Light (Sire)

Review by Mitchell Cohen, Creem, January 1981

Play That Funky Music White Boy ...

Talking Heads: Remain In Light (Warner Bros.)

Review by Van Gosse, Musician, January 1981

I DON'T KNOW about you, but I've been holding my breath through all of 1980, waiting for something to happen. So far there's been a ...

Talking Heads: Jive Talking

Interview by Richard Grabel, The Face, January 1981

David Byrne talks guardedly about his collaboration with Brian Eno. Tina Weymouth talks candidly on the same subject. "By the time they had finished working ...

Fear Of Normalcy: Talking Heads Get Funked (And Like It)

Interview by Toby Goldstein, Creem, March 1981

I FIRST MET David Byrne and his very serious band of Talking Heads in 1976. That was before their first album had been released, and ...

Byrne's Eye Vew

Interview by David Hepworth, Smash Hits, 5 March 1981

Talking Heads is TV slang for people whose legs you never see. It's also the name of one of the finest groups in the world. ...

Eno: The Life of Brian in the Bush of Ghosts

Interview by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 7 March 1981

BRIAN ENO, currently working on two new albums, is many things to a lot of men. ...

Talking Heads: Wembley Arena, London

Live Review by Mark Cooper, Record Mirror, 24 January 1982

Joining the stadium set ...

David Byrne: The Catherine Wheel; Jerry Harrison: The Red And The Black; Tom Tom Club: Tom Tom Club

Review by Van Gosse, Musician, February 1982

Talking Heads Alone ...

Eno: The Soul Inside The Shades

Interview by Richard Grabel, New Musical Express, 24 April 1982

Richard Grabel practises the pussyfoot with Brian Eno, the father of electronic pop. ...

Talking Heads: The Name of This Band is Talking Heads (Sire)

Review by Don Waller, L.A. Weekly, 3 June 1982

Talking Heads: Form Meets Funk(tion) ...

Talking Heads: The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads

Review by Van Gosse, The Village Voice, 8 June 1982

TALKING HEADS: TV shorthand, video argot for the small-screen dance. The words themselves give up little ghosts, conceptual bombs – media as alienation, the medium ...

Quiet Americans in Paris

Report and Interview by Richard Cook, New Musical Express, 17 July 1982

Will Talking Heads survive? Is the family in jeopardy? What is this bastard offspring Tom Tom Club? ...

Talking Heads, Defunkt: Greek Theater, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 10 August 1982

TALKING HEADS: WHOLE LOTTA RHYTHM ...

Talking Heads: Merriweather Post Pavilion, Baltimore MA

Live Review by Geoffrey Himes, Baltimore Sun, 25 August 1982

Talking Heads at last bring mind, body together ...

David Byrne: First Degree Byrne

Interview by Max Bell, The Face, June 1983

FOR SOMEONE WITH such an aversion to limelight, fame and wild applause, David Byrne certainly puts himself about a bit. Ever since he formed Talking ...

Talking Heads: Speaking in Tongues (Sire)

Review by Richard Cook, New Musical Express, 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 ...

Talking Heads: All Mouth and Trousers!

Profile and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, 27 August 1983

TALKING HEADS ARE BURNING DOWN THE MOTIONS AND BEING WILLINGLY DRAGGED INTO THE ROCK MACHINE. A TONGUE-TIED DAVID BYRNE SQUEAKS UP FOR HIMSELF. BARNEY HOSKYNS ...

Backbeat: David Byrne

Interview by Steven X Rea, High Fidelity, September 1983

Talking Heads leader Byrne is a songwriter, video producer, theater composer, artist, and a part-time member of the 20th century literati. And some people think ...

Talking Heads: Speaking In Tongues

Review by Roy Trakin, Creem, September 1983

WITHOUT THE ANCHORS of either longtime producer Brian Eno or the general pancultural ideology expressed on their last few records, the Talking Heads' latest album, ...

Talking Heads: Speaking in Tongues (Sire 23883-1)

Review by Sam Sutherland, High Fidelity, September 1983

TALKING HEADS' first studio album since 1980's Remain in Light is quietly brilliant, reclaiming the more skeletal character of their earlier work without suggesting a ...

Talking Heads: Forest Hills Tennis Stadium, Queens NY

Live Review by Richard Grabel, New Musical Express, 17 September 1983

THE ESSENTIAL Talking Heads identity has always had David Byrne as its focus, no matter how much he may theorize about creating some sort of ...

Talking Heads: Stop Making Sense (Dir. Jonathan Demme)

Film/DVD/TV Review by Fred Schruers, Rolling Stone, 25 October 1984

Heads play from heart in new film ...

Talking Heads: Stop Making Sense

Review by Ian Penman, New Musical Express, 27 October 1984

WHAT, WITHOUT wandering, is here? A company move, accompanying live movie (directed by Jonathan Demme), a record – another live LP, so soon? Where's the ...

Talking Heads: Stop Making Sense (Sire)

Review by Craig Zeller, Record, November 1984

AND SO YOU may ask yourself: why are the Talking Heads releasing another souvenir concert album a mere two years and one studio album after ...

Cents and Sensibility: Talking Heads

Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 8 December 1984

You may find yourself...the leader of a rock band (of sorts)! ...

Talking Heads Film Combines Rock Show With Light Show

Interview by Geoffrey Himes, Baltimore Sun, 27 January 1985

"THE PROBLEM with the rock concert films I've seen," argues David Byrne of Talking Heads, "is they have no beginning, middle and end. But neither ...

Talking Heads: Tina Through the Looking Glass

Interview by Bill Black, Sounds, 27 July 1985

Bill Black shows an unifying love for little creatures and follows... ...

Talking Heads: The Trendiest Group In The World?

Interview by Chris Heath, Smash Hits, 20 November 1985

TINA WEYMOUTH and husband Chris Frantz are sipping orange juice in a London hotel and chatting away about their latest LP, Little Creatures, which has ...

David Byrne: A Talking Head's Guide To The Big Country

Interview by Mat Snow, New Musical Express, 6 September 1986

COMING SOON to a cinema near you is one of this year's funniest yet most thought-provoking films. It is called True Stories, and is a ...

Talking Heads' Byrne Chats Up His Movie

Interview by Ben Fong-Torres, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 October 1986

THE LAST TIME we saw David Byrne on the big screen, he was herky-jerking his way through a Talking Heads concert, doing his chaotic, turkey-necked, ...

Adrian Belew: Twang Bar King

Interview by Gene Santoro, Downbeat, December 1986

IN THE decade since he first burst into the big-time music world, guitarist Adrian Belew has persistently challenged and reshaped the boundaries of his instrument. ...

Talking Heads: Naked

Review by Paul Mathur, Melody Maker, 12 March 1988

LOOPHOLES AND repression being what they are, an Alabama county recently admitted that according to local legal dictates, it was illegal for any baby in ...

David Byrne: Heads and Tales

Profile and Interview by Mark Cooper, The Guardian, 18 March 1988

With Naked, Talking Heads' tenth album, David Byrne is still asking "How did I get here?" Mark Cooper examines a stranger in paradise. ...

Performance Art: Pop 'n' Fresh

Overview by Mark Dery, L.A. Weekly, 21 April 1988

THE CHAIN linking performance art and pop music is 75 years long this March. It's a tangled, meandering chain, stretching all the way from Italian ...

Tom Tom Club: The Byrne Issue

Interview by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 14 October 1988

Adam Sweeting on Talking Heads, the Tom Tom Club, and the great divide between the two ...

Clubbing It with the Tom Tom Club

Interview by Alan di Perna, Musician, July 1989

Chris and Tina are now in "a real band." And it's not Talking Heads. ...

Meet The Family: Ramones, Blondie, Talking Heads

Report and Interview by Mat Snow, Q, October 1990

There's Debbie, and there's Tina and, let's see, there's little Joey, hasn't he grown? Then there's and Chris and, uh, Chris... From the shadowy depths ...

Bernie Worrell: Aspects of the Funk

Interview by Alan di Perna, Musician, February 1991

Jamming with keyboardist extraordinaire Bernie Worrell ...

Severed Heads: Talking Heads and David Byrne

Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, March 1992

"LOOKING AT old videos of Talking Heads," says David Byrne, "it's like three normal kids backing up this maniac — three people who have their ...

David Byrne

Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, May 1992

For years the frontman of Talking Heads, David Byrne has emerged as a solo artist now – but his newest album shares the same off-beat ...

Talking Heads: 77

Review by Barney Hoskyns, unpublished, 1997

NEXT TO CBGBS peers like the Ramones and the Voidoids, Talking Heads barely sounded like a punk band. After the startlingly non-conformist ‘Love Building on ...

Talking Heads: 1999 – Not So Eighties, After All

Report by Jaan Uhelszki, Rolling Stone, 27 April 1999

David Byrne joins his fellow Talking Heads ...

Talking Heads: Stop Making Sense

Review and Interview by Andy Gill, MOJO, October 1999

WITH AN additional six songs bulking out the 10 featured on the original vinyl album, this is the first version of the Stop Making Sense ...

Talking Heads: Once In A Lifetime

Review by Daryl Easlea, Record Collector, December 2003

TWENTY YEARS ago this month, the popular image of Talking Heads was crystallised. Filming at the Pantages Theatre, L.A., for what was to become Stop ...

David Byrne Backwards

Profile and Interview by Peter Ross, Sunday Herald, 21 March 2004

NOT far from David Byrne's London hotel, a fashion store is selling T-shirts bearing the logos of the Ramones and of CBGBs, the legendary New ...

Talking Heads: The Name of This Band is Talking Heads

Review by Alfred Soto, Stylus, 27 August 2004

THE NAME OF ITS LEADER is David Byrne. Until 1987, when U2 and R.E.M.'s declamatory arena moves flexed the populist muscle Byrne could never manage, ...

25 Essential Music DVDs

Guide by Nicholas Jennings, Inside Entertainment, September 2004

1. The Last Waltz THE BAND'S elegant swansong is the ultimate rock concert movie. Director Martin Scorsese's discreet camerawork and superb sound captures inspired performances from ...

Heaven or Las Vegas: CBGBs closes down

Report by Laura Barton, The Guardian, 8 July 2005

Laura Barton on what the closure of the world's most famous punk-rock club, CBGB's, says about the state of New York's live music scene. ...

Seymour Stein: Siring Greatness

Interview by Scott McLennan, Rip It Up (Australia), Summer 2005

IN A WORLD where the longevity of most rock stars is fleeting, record magnate Seymour Stein has nurtured a vast array of successes across the ...

Talking Heads - Same as it ever was?

Review by Jim Irvin, The Word, 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 ...

Tom Tom Club's Chris Frantz On David Byrne, Brian Eno And Lee 'Scratch' Perry

Interview by Julian Marszalek, The Quietus, 3 June 2009

Julian Marszalek speaks to the Tom Tom Club and Talking Heads mainstay Chris Frantz ...

Talking Heads: And The Heat Goes On

Retrospective and Interview by Graeme Thomson, Uncut, November 2010

A long hot summer in New York 30 years ago, and Talking Heads are heading into dangerous new territory. It will involve intense relationships with ...

Bassists: Let's Stick Together

Overview by James Medd, The Word, February 2012

They are "the glue" that cements the music, the mysterious put-upon souls plying their crucial trade in a cloud of dry ice by the drum-riser. ...

The 30 best live concert albums of all time

Guide by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 22 April 2020

LAST WEEK, A STORY appeared in the New York Times that predicted that live music would not return to the world's stages until the autumn ...

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