Talking Heads were arguably the most significant band to emerge from the late seventies' New York punk scene. A fascinating story of success followed by acrimony and jealousy.
For over three decades now, David Byrne has been a leading light in American culture - in popular music, experimental theatre, film, television, fine art, and writing.
Two series of monologues written for BBC television and broadcast in 1988 and 1998, along with 'A woman of no importance', an earlier monologue first televised in 1982.
Characterized by the author's understatement, observation and knowing irony, these six Alan Bennett monologues were written for the second BBC1 series of Talking Heads, the first having been transmitted 11 years earlier, in 1987.
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of the movie True Stories by David Byrne of Talking Heads, featuring his complete annotated screenplay and lyrics to all the songs in the film as well as the "true stories" from tabloids that inspired ...
... THE BEST OF TALKING HEADS " Psycho Killer " , " Take Me To The River " , " Once In A Lifetime " , " Burning Down The House " , " This Must Be The Place ( Naïve Melody ) " , " Slippery People " ( live ) , " Life During Wartime " ( live ) ...
... the best at the time that I hadn't learned that fact, and that my aural defenses were good enough to keep me from hearing it. I needed Talking Heads to be a punk band, not a funk band. But in “I Zimbra” I couldn't help hearing — as ...