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“I think the song seems more relevant than ever, especially in the US, with the ICE raids and all that”: How David Byrne and Brian Eno anticipated a darker tomorrow on Talking Heads’ 1979 masterpiece

With Eno stationed outside in a mobile recording van, the loft-recorded banger Life During Wartime painted a bleak picture of a seemingly inevitable future

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“I tried to write a love song that wasn’t corny, that didn’t sound stupid or lame the way many do. I think I succeeded”: How Talking Heads crafted the delicate beauty of This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)

Both one of Talking Heads’ most out-of-character compositions and their most emotionally resonant, This Must Be the Place continues to cast its spell over listeners

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“I shuffled into this big open room, and Tina was there and she was very upset. She said to me, ‘If we get rid of David, would you join the band?’”: Adrian Belew insists he was asked to replace David Byrne in Talking Heads

He didn’t regard it as a serious offer though

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“I don’t know what he was thinking, but he went into the little kitchen behind the control room and returned with a carving knife”: How David Byrne, Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz created a sinister new wave classic

With some help from a carving knife

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“That will be the inscription on my tombstone - 'Here lies the body of David Byrne. Why the big suit?'” How the Talking Heads' frontman's oversized tailoring defined his most iconic performance

The gigantic suit look became one of Byrne's visual trademarks, but what lay behind his choice to wear it?

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Talking Heads celebrate 50th anniversary with new video

Talking Heads have marked the 50th anniversary of their first live show with a music video for 'Psycho Killer' starring Saoirse Ronan.

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“As far as we’re concerned, the band never really broke up”: Are Talking Heads about to announce a reunion 50 years to the day since their first gig?

That’s the enticing prospect being dangled via the band’s social media

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Rio’s record, giant dogs and a psychic crocodile – take the Thursday quiz

Questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes, every Thursday. How will you fare?

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Blondie, The Ramones, and the greatest CBGB bands

Blondie drummer Clem Burke died at the weekend aged 70. In tribute here is a look at the scene that forged around the legendary New York venue, CBGB

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“We were human samplers. We’d listen to the tapes, isolate the best bits, then learn how to play them over and over again”: How Talking Heads created their classic hit Once In A Lifetime

“We very nearly abandoned the song," said David Byrne

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“It was the first song I wrote just to see if I could. I discovered - oh yes, I can!”: How David Byrne created Talking Heads' most popular track right out of the gate

The song was intended as a deliberately dark response to the more playful macabre antics of Alice Cooper. But it would end up shaping Talking Heads’ future

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"An emotional blast carefully packed into tight, angular arrangements": The Super Deluxe Edition of Talking Heads' 77 is focused, unsettling and damn near indispensable

Art rock icons’ explosive "tightly wound" punk-era debut, now with juicy extras

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Talking Heads pose the questions on US game show Jeopardy - take them on here

Talking Heads appear on US game show Jeopardy

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“We didn’t want any gimmicks. No split screens. No interviews. That would be too Spinal Tap”: Talking Heads on the making of Stop Making Sense

The four members appear relaxed and at ease with each other on Jimmy Fallon show

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“People would ask: ‘Is David Byrne a genius or a moron?’ I wanted to nip that ‘moron’ bit in the bud, so it was better to say ‘genius.’ The truth is somewhere in between”: The prog credentials of Talking Heads

The eccentric post-punk outfit certainly progressed with albums including More Songs About Buildings And Food, Fear Of Music and Remain In Light… but were they actually progressive?

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Up First briefing: Hollywood writers deal, NASA asteroid sample, pickleball caucus

Hollywood writers reached a tentative deal with major studios. NASA scientists are celebrating the successful landing of an asteroid sample. A pickleball caucus is uniting senators across parties.

Evening Standard

Stop Making Sense: How Talking Heads made the greatest concert film of all time

That a live show could be at once so energised, joyous and inventive had a major impact on arena performance for decades to come – influencing acts from David Bowie to Billie Eilish

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The Talking Heads on the once-in-a-lifetime 'Stop Making Sense'

For nearly four decades, the Talking Heads documentary “Stop Making Sense” has exerted an inexorable pull on all who encounter the frenetic fever of arguably the finest concert film ever made

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Why did Talking Heads break up? David Byrne regrets how he handled it ahead of reunion

The band members have had a tumultuous relationship

The Independent UK

‘I was a little tyrant’: David Byrne says he regrets ‘ugly’ Talking Heads breakup

‘As a younger person, I was not as pleasant to be around,’ band’s former frontman said

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David Byrne says he regrets ‘ugly’ Talking Heads breakup: ‘I was a little tyrant’

‘As a younger person, I was not as pleasant to be around,’ band’s former frontman said

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Appreciation: Seymour Stein, dead at 80, discovered the Ramones, Madonna, many more: ‘I never believed in press for myself’

SAN DIEGO — Seymour Stein was never a household name to most music fans before his Sunday death from cancer in Los Angeles at the age of 80. But he certainly was to the Ramones, the Talking Heads, Madonna, Ice-T, Depeche Mode and the dozens of other artists Stein signed…

The Guardian - UK

Talking Heads’ Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz look back: ‘When I first asked her to join my band, she refused’

The musicians discuss their military families, surviving a serious car crash, and being partners in life and in music

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Ed Stasium, whose recording credits include Talking Heads, the Ramones and Gladys Knight, rocks on

SAN DIEGO — Ed Stasium's goal has remained happily unchanged in the nearly 50 years he has worked as a recording engineer and album producer for such varied artists as Talking Heads, Ramones, Gladys Knight & The Pips, Mick Jagger, Living Colour, Kool & The Gang and gospel-music queen Shirley…

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First Thing: Zelenskiy says Ukraine is willing to discuss neutrality at Russia talks

Talks to start in Turkey as Ukraine president seeks peace ‘without delay’. Plus, drama at the Oscars as Will Smith attacks Chris Rock on stage

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