Talking Heads were an American rock band formed in 1975 in New York City. The group helped to pioneer new wave music by integrating elements of punk, art rock, funk, and world music with avant-garde sensibilities and an anxious, clean-cut image. They released several more albums, including their best-selling LP Little Creatures, before disbanding in 1991.
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Talking Heads were an American rock band formed in 1975 in New York City. The band was composed of David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth, and Jerry Harrison. The group helped to pioneer new wave music by integrating elements of punk, art rock, funk, and world music with avant-garde sensibilities and an anxious, clean-cut image. They released several more albums, including their best-selling LP Little Creatures, before disbanding in 1991. Four of their albums appear in Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, and three of their songs were included among the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 500 Songs That Shaped Rock And Roll. In 2002, Talking Heads were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame. The name Talking Heads came from an issue of TV Guide, which \”explained the term used by TV studios to describe a head-and-shoulder shot of a person talking as ‘all content, no action’. It fit.\’ The single “This ain’t no catch” produced the band’s first Billboard Top 30 hit, “Life Wartime” during the late 1970s and early 1980s. The title of Brian Eno’s 1977 song “King’s Lead Hat” is an anagram of the group’s name.
In 2011, the band was ranked number 100 on the Rolling Stone list of “The 100 Greatest Artists of All time” and number 64 on VH1’s “100 greatest artists of all time” list. Without Byrne, the other band members performed under the name Shrunken Heads, and released an album, No Talking, Just Head, as the Heads in 1996. They established the band Point Studios in Nassau, Bahamas, to record More Songs About Buildings and Food and Fear of Music in the early 1990s. This’s also where they established their recording relationship with Compass Point Studios, where they recorded their first album, More Songs about Buildings and food. They also recorded their hit “Burning Down the House” during this time, which gave the public their first Top 10 hit and gave the band their first charting single, “Psycho Killer” During this period, the group collaborated with Eno on a trio of experimental and critically acclaimed releases, including “More Songs About buildings and food” and “Remain in Light”
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