Ranked From Worst to Best), and after creating music at a furious pace (four boundary-challenging albums in as many years), Talking Heads took a three-year break. When the members reconvened, they seemed to be more open to pop melodies again, albeit in a very Head-y way. And so ...
David Byrneis often considered one of rock’s most arty icons. In the late '70s and '80s, with his bandTalking Heads, Byrne went for introspective, existentialist and weird. Maybe the epitome of this artiness came with their 1984 concert filmStop Making Sense. Directed byJonathan Demme, the...
This post is the second oftwo parts. With hindsight and in living with particular albums for longer, we have compiled lists of ourten favourite albums for each year from 2000-2019. Perhaps these lists will be of some interest for those who wish to walk down Memory Lane, or indeed, for t...
The group Talking Heads (David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison and Tina Weymouth) were musical alchemists - extracting the rhythms of African and Arabic styles, funk and electronica and blending them with postmodern lyrics that created toe-tapping music of dizzying depth, with to...
In the first two months of 1996, Bowie was inducted by David Byrne into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in New York. Then, he received the Outstanding Contribution To British Music award at the Brits in London. By November, he had completed work on his 21st studio album, Earthling. ...