![]() He founded a record label that brought attention to pockets of global music in South America and Africa. In the years following the breakup of Talking Heads, Byrne pursued several artistic directions. The Heads, as they were often called then, were the intelligent agents of music inclusivity bringing funk and danceability to their audience.īyrne’s early lyrics sometimes spoke to societal violence and anomie, such as their first hit “Psycho Killer,” and the later “Life During Wartime.” Nonetheless, there was an aspect of Byrne that was always searching for the transcendent, as was evidenced in their exuberant cover of Al Green’s “Take Me to the River.” I was a dedicated Talking Heads band fan and saw them perform on New Year’s Eve 1976 and at Forest Hills in 19 (some of the best shows I’ve ever seen). ![]() In the years that followed, Talking Heads quickly progressed from a stripped down New Wave band to a larger and more global sound (working with Brian Eno, the father ambient music and a visual artist). Patti Smith coming from the world of poetry and art followed, and eventually R.E.M who would carry the banner into the late 80s and 90s. The first of these was The Velvet Underground who were managed by Andy Warhol, and within the loose parameters of this idea there came to be a number of New Wave and proto-punk bands including Television with Tom Verlaine, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, and three students from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Byrne, Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth who would form a band called Talking Heads (they would later be joined by Jerry Harrison). But once upon a time, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, it was a grouping of bands that saw themselves as much art projects as rock bands. ![]() Art rock is not a term that is bandied about much anymore.
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