This Must Be the Place: The Adventures of Talking Heads in the Twentieth Century (repost)
This Must Be the Place: The Adventures of Talking Heads in the Twentieth Century By David Bowman
Publisher: I t Bo oks 2002 | 416 Pages | ISBN: 0060507314 | PDF | 1 MB
Publisher: I t Bo oks 2002 | 416 Pages | ISBN: 0060507314 | PDF | 1 MB
Who better than a novelist-cum-music journalist to depict "a group that was completely of its time and totally outside of it"? From the Talking Heads' individual roots to their electrifying collaboration and breakup, Bowman (Bunny Modern) portrays brilliant odd-bird David Byrne, even-keeled and Harvard-educated Jerry Harrison, happy-go-lucky Chris Frantz and enigmatic Tina Weymouth, who told Bowman: "I have to rewrite your book for you…. You know nothing about us." Or maybe he knows more than she'd like? Bowman interviewed them (and 50 others) and studied their every mention e.g., New York Times writeups, Andy Warhol's diary to understand how they got the nation singing "Psycho killer/ Qu'est que c'est/ fa fa fa…. "