A Brief History of Talking Heads: How the Band Went from Scrappy CBGB’s Punks to New Wave Superstars

 
“We could split hairs all day. Are Talking Heads punk? Are they New Wave? Are they ‘art rock’? Why not all of the above. Consider their cred. Two art students, David Byrne and Chris Frantz, move to New York in the late 70 with their three-chord, two-piece band The Artistics. With minimal musical ability and no experience in the music business, they thought, said Byrne, ‘we’d have a serious try at a band.’ Unable to recruit new members in the city, they asked Frantz’s girlfriend, fellow art student Tina Weymouth, who did not play bass, to be their bassist. ... What could be more of a prototypically punk origin story? But then there’s the evolution of Talking Heads from jangly, nervous art rockers to confident re-interpreters of funk, disco, and polyrhythmic Afrobeat in their 80s New Wave epics. ...”

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