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In the music video, David Byrne dances erratically over footage of religious rituals, dressed in a suit, bowtie and glasses. In the "Once in a Lifetime" music video, Byrne appears in a large, empty white room, dressed in a suit, bowtie and glasses. In the background, inserted via bluescreen, footage of religious rituals or multiple Byrnes ...
Stop Making Sense includes performances of the early Talking Heads single, "Psycho Killer" (1977), through to their most recent hit at the time, "Burning Down the House" (1983). It also includes songs from the solo career of frontman David Byrne and by Tom Tom Club, the side project of drummer Chris Frantz and bassist Tina Weymouth.
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.
Byrne playing guitar with Talking Heads in May 1978. By January 1975, Talking Heads were practicing and playing together, while still working normal day jobs. They played their first gig in June. [10] [11] In May 1976, Byrne quit his day job, and the three-piece band signed to Sire Records in November of that year. Byrne was the youngest member ...
The core four members of Talking Heads — vocalist and guitarist David Byrne, drummer Chris Frantz, bassist Tina Weymouth and keyboardist and guitarist Jerry Harrison — split rather ...
The art-pop provocateur also opens up about how "Talking Heads got past the initial stage of not moving whatsoever" onstage, once he realized that his "own quirky movements were OK."
Frantz and Weymouth performed the song as Tom Tom Club in the 1984 Talking Heads concert movie Stop Making Sense, as an interlude to allow Talking Heads frontman David Byrne to change into the "big suit" costume for the film's performance of "Girlfriend Is Better". [11] The recording of the song was also included on the soundtrack to the film.
The forthcoming re-release of the Talking Heads’ 1984 classic “Stop Making Sense” — which is universally regarded as one of the greatest concert films ever made — has put the long ...