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on YouTube " I Zimbra " is a song by American new wave band Talking Heads , released as the second single from their 1979 album Fear of Music . According to Sytze Steenstra in Song and Circumstance: The Work of David Byrne from Talking Heads to the Present , the music draws heavily on the African popular music Byrne was listening to at the time.
The band played their first gig as Talking Heads—opening for the Ramones at the CBGB club—on June 5, 1975. [2] According to Weymouth, 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."
"A Cream Cracker Under The Settee" is a dramatic monologue written by Alan Bennett in 1987 for television, as part of his Talking Heads series for the BBC. The series became very popular, moving onto BBC Radio, international theatre, becoming one of the best-selling audio book releases of all time and included as part of both the A-level and ...
Talking Heads guitarist Jerry Harrison is the latest guest on the SPIN Presents Lipps Service podcast, during which he discusses the band’s unexpected reunion to promote the remastered version ...
The song was composed near the beginning of the band's career and prototype versions were performed onstage as early as December 1975. [12] When it was finally completed and released as a single in December 1977, "Psycho Killer" became instantly associated in popular culture with the contemporaneous Son of Sam serial killings (July 1976 – July 1977).
"Cities" is a single, released in 1980, by the American new wave band Talking Heads. It is the fourth track on the 1979 album Fear of Music.. When the concert film Stop Making Sense was first released on home video, the songs "Cities", together with "Big Business"/"I Zimbra" were restored to the performance, thus forming what was dubbed the "special edition" of the film.
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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.