Talking Heads

by Jerome Davis

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394741315
• ISBN13: 9780394741314
• Release Date: August 1986
• Publisher: Vintage Books USA
• Length: 2 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Very readable

This is the story of Talking Heads, the eccentric and danceable New York art-rock band that changed the music scene of the 1970s, recorded a ton of great songs--from "And She Was" to "Don't Worry About the Government" to "Burning Down the House"--and had an enormous influence on the generations of music that followed. I got this book as part of a collection I inherited from my sister that died--she was a Talking Heads fanatic. I picked it up recently, intending only on browsing it, and ended up reading it voraciously over the next three days. "Jerome Davis is the psuedonymn of a well-known music critic," the about-the-author claims, and he writes very well. The chapters are fast-paced and concise, and the focus is almost always on the band's music, though it does cover a little of the band member's childhoods, especially David Byrne's, the band's lead singer. The book was written in 1986 however, so it ends long before the band broke up in 1991. In a way that's cool--it ends on a happy note, when the band was trying to get along and be friends and still making great music--but it also feels incomplete, as if there's a lot more of the story that still needs to be told. I would recommend this to any fan of the Talking Heads. It's one of the more readable music books I've read. It's fact-filled, and very well written.