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“It was the first song I wrote just to see if I could. I discovered - oh yes, I can!”: How David Byrne created Talking Heads' most popular track right out of the gate
The song was intended as a deliberately dark response to the more playful macabre antics of Alice Cooper. But it would end up shaping Talking Heads’ future ...
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Talking Heads
Talking Heads formed ... Wave scene with spiky songs like 'Psycho Killer.' After two albums of jagged, thorny art-rock, they steered into a different direction, adapting more worldly rhythms ...
After more than 50 years, an early demo of Talking Heads’ hit ‘Psycho Killer’ has surfaced at RISD
The tape of The Artistics, the first band of frontman David Byrne and drummer Chris Frantz, was recorded in a Providence apartment and is now in the RISD Archives.
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Remember When: Talking Heads Play Their Tumultuous Last Show Together at the 1984 Sweetwaters South Festival
In February 1984, the Talking Heads played their last show ever, retiring from touring after a tumultuous set they almost didn't finish.