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David Byrne (/ b ɜːr n /; born 14 May 1952) is a Scottish-American musician, writer, visual artist, and filmmaker. He was a founding member, principal songwriter, lead singer, and guitarist of the American new wave band Talking Heads.
Radiohead took their name from the 1986 Talking Heads song "Radio Head", [87] and cited Remain in Light as a critical influence on their 2000 album Kid A. [88] Italian filmmaker and director Paolo Sorrentino, receiving the Oscar for his film La Grande Bellezza in 2014, thanked Talking Heads, among others, as his sources of inspiration. [89]
Talking Heads were an American new wave band who, between 1975 and 1991, recorded 96 songs, 12 of which were not officially released until after their break-up. The group has been described as "one of the most acclaimed bands of the post-punk era" by AllMusic and among the most "adventurous" bands in rock history by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
In October 1986, the cover of Time trumpeted Byrne as “rock’s renaissance man: singer, composer, lyricist, guitarist, film director, writer, actor, video artist, ... Talking Heads: 77 (1977)
The singer, who has steadfastly looked ahead for most of his post-Talking Heads career, reflected on the film as its 40th anniversary approaches. The remastered version is released in IMAX on Sept ...
Martina Michèle Weymouth (/ ˈ w eɪ m ə θ / WAY-məth; born November 22, 1950) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and a founding member and bassist of the new wave group Talking Heads and its side project Tom Tom Club, which she co-founded with her husband, Talking Heads drummer Chris Frantz. [2]
After more than 20 rancorous years apart, a rerelease of the Talking Heads classic 1983 concert film "Stop Making Sense" has brought détente, and maybe more.
Naked is the eighth and final studio album by American rock band Talking Heads, released on March 15, 1988, by Sire Records.Following the more straightforward new wave and pop rock sound on Little Creatures (1985) and True Stories (1986), Naked marked a return to the worldbeat stylings of both Remain in Light (1980) and Speaking in Tongues (1983), blending elements of Afrobeat, Latin funk, and ...