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And You May Ask Yourself: How a Bahamian Jam, a Deck of Cards, and a Radio Preacher Made Talking Heads’ \”Once in a Lifetime\
And You May Ask Yourself: How a Bahamian Jam, a Deck of Cards, and a Radio Preacher Made Talking Heads’ “Once in a Lifetime” “And you may find yourself in another part of the world / And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile / And you may find yourself in…
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Talking Heads: The Tender Hearts Behind the Avant-Garde
Talking Heads made some of the strangest, smartest music of the rock era — songs about buildings and food, Dada poetry and urban paranoia, delivered by a frontman who performed like a man possessed by geometry. It would be easy to mistake them for cold intellectuals, all art-school irony and detachment. But behind the avant-garde…
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How Talking Heads Made “Fear of Music”: Dada Poetry, a Queens Loft, and Robert Fripp
In the spring of 1979, Talking Heads did something no major-label band was supposed to do: they recorded the basic tracks of their third album in two days, in a rented loft in Queens, with a mobile recording truck parked outside and cables running through the windows. No producers’ polish, no studio gloss — just…
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The Untold Story of Talking Heads: Art School, Big Suits, and an Ugly Goodbye
No band ever looked less like rock stars and changed rock more. Talking Heads were four art students who treated the stage as a canvas, the recording studio as a laboratory, and the music video as a short film — and who fell apart so completely that the singer announced the breakup in a newspaper…