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TALKING HEADS
New York, USA
* 9/1974	+ 12/1991

Line-Up (1991):

David Byrne - voc,g
Jerry Harrison - kb,g,voc
Tina Weymouth - bg
Chris Frantz - ds

Former Members:

Donette MacDonald (voc, 1980-cca 6/82)
Alex Weir (g, cca 6/82)
Bernie Worrell (kb, cca 6/82)
Steven Scales (perc, 1980-cca 6/82)

Albums Discography:

#	Title	Release Date	Label	Type	UK	USA
1.	Talking Heads: 77	21.10.1977	Sire		60	97
2.	More Songs About Buildings And Food produced by: Brian Eno	14.07.1978	Sire		21	29
3.	Fear Of Music produced by: Brian Eno	24.08.1979	Sire		33	21
4.	Remain In Light produced by: Brian Eno	08.10.1980	Sire		21	19
5.	The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads (2LP)	02.04.1982	Sire		22	31
6.	Speaking In Tongues produced by: Talking Heads	17.06.1983	Sire		21	15
7.	Stop Making Sense	26.10.1984	Sire		37	41
8.	Little Creatures	5/1985	Sire		10	20
9.	True Stories	9/1986	Sire		7	17
10.	Songs From 'True Stories'	11/1986	Sire
11.	Naked produced by: Steve Lillywhite	18.03.1988	Sire		3	19
12.	Popular Favourites - Sand In The Vaseline (2CD)	19.10.1992	EMI		7	158
13.	Once In A Lifetime - The Best Of Talking Heads	19.10.1992	EMI		8
14.	Stop Making Sense - 15th Anniversary	06.09.1999			24
15.	Once In A Lifetime (3CD+DVD box set)	17.11.2003	Rhino
16.	The Best Of Talking Heads	17.08.2004	Rhino		30
17.	The Collection	15.01.2007	EMI
18.	Same As It Ever Was	5/2009	Rhino			73
19.	Essential	27.10.2011	EMI Gold
20.	Real Live Wires: Chicago Broadcast 1978	06.06.2013	Smokin' Productions
21.	Chicago August 28 1978	13.03.2015	DOL
22.	The Boston Tea Party: 1979 Broadcasts	06.06.2015	Let Them Eat Vinyl
23.	Transmission Impossible	10.07.2015	Eat To The Beat
24.	The Boarding House, San Francisco, 1978	10.07.2015	Livewire
25.	Psycho Killer: Live	17.07.2015	Klondike
26.	Still Not Making Sense	23.10.2015	FM In Concert Series
27.	Saratogo Psycho: US, 1973	22.01.2016	Let Them Eat Vinyl
28.	Psycho Killers: Radio Waves 1978-82	15.07.2016	Anglo Atlantic

David Byrne:

#	Title	Release Date	Label	Type	UK	USA
1.	God Save The Queen / Under Heavy Manners & Robert Fripp	14.03.1980	E.G.
2.	My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts & Brian Eno, prod. Bill Laswell	2/1981	EG		17	44
3.	Songs From The Catherine Wheel	27.11.1981	Sire		29
4.	Music For The Knee Plays	5/1985	Sire			141
5.	Rei Momo	10/1989	Luaka Bop		52	71
6.	The Forest	6/1991	Luaka Bop/Sire
7.	Uh-Oh	02.03.1992	Luaka Bop		26	125
8.	David Byrne produced by: David Byrne/Arto Lindsay/Susan Rogers	24.05.1994	Luaka Bop		28	139
9.	Feelings	19.05.1997	Warner Music			155
10.	Look Into The Eyeball	08.05.2001	Luaka Bop/Virgin		58	120
11.	Lead Us Not Into Temptation	09.09.2003	Thrill Jockey
12.	Grown Backwards	16.03.2004	Nonesuch			178
13.	Live from Austin, Texas	02.10.2007	New West
14.	Big Love: Hymnal	19.08.2008	HBO
15.	Everything That Happens Will Happen Today & Brian Eno	17.11.2008	Todo Mundo
16.	Here Lies Love & Fatboy Slim (2CD)	06.04.2010	Nonesuch		76	96
17.	Live At Carnegie Hall & Caetano Veloso	09.03.2012	Nonesuch
18.	Love This Giant & St Vincent	11.09.2012	4AD		40	23
19.	Live At The Keswick Theatre: Glenside PA 1994	29.07.2015	DOL
20.	American Utopia	09.03.2018	Nonesuch		16	3

Jerry Harrison:

#	Title	Release Date	Label	Type	UK	USA
1.	The Red And The Black	06.11.1981	Sire

Singles Discography:

#	SP/EP Title	Release Date	Label	UK	USA
1.	Love Goes To Building On Fire / New Feeling produced by: Tony Bongiovi (v GB 20.5.77)	9/1976	Sire
2.	Uh-Oh, Love Comes To Town / I Wish You Wouldn't Say That	23.09.1977	Sire
3.	Psycho Killer / I Wish You Wouldn't Say That 12" + Psycho Killer (acoustic version)	25.11.1977	Sire		92
4.	Pulled Up / Don't Worry About The Government	02.06.1978	Sire
5.	Psycho Killer / Take Me To The River / Love Goes To Building On Fire / Found A Job	06.10.1978	Sire
6.	Take Me To The River / Thank You For Sending Me An Angel	10/1978	Sire		26
7.	Take Me To The River / Found A Job 7"(2) + Love Goes To A Building On Fire / Psycho Killer	22.06.1979	Sire
8.	Life During Wartime (This Ain't No Party... This Ain't No Disco... This Ain't No Foolin' Around) / Electric Guitar	12.10.1979	Sire		80
9.	I Zimbra / Paper	15.02.1980	Sire
10.	Cities / Cities (live) 12" + Artists Only	6/1980	Sire
11.	Once In A Lifetime / Seen And Not Seen	1/1981	Sire	12	103
12.	Houses In Motion (remix) / The Overlord (v USA)	5/1981	Sire
13.	Houses In Motion (remix) / Air 12" + House In Motion (live)	08.05.1981	Sire	50
14.	Life During Wartime (live) / Life During Wartime (LP version) 12" + Don't Worry About The Government (live)	3/1982	Sire
15.	Burning Down The House / I Get Wild - Wild Gravity 12" + Moon Rocks	15.07.1983	Sire		9
16.	This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) / Moon Rocks 12" + Slippery People (remix) / Making Flippy Floppy (remix) (v GB 13.1.84)	10/1983	Sire	37	62
17.	Slippery People (live) / This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) (live)	26.10.1984	Sire	50
18.	Girlfriend Is Better (live) / Once In A Lifetime (live)	11/1984	Sire	99
19.	Girlfriend Is Better / Heaven	12/1984	Sire
20.	The Lady Don't Mind / Give Me Back My Name 12" + Slippery People / This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)	5/1985	Sire	81
21.	Road To Nowhere / Give Me Back My Name	6/1985	Sire
22.	And She Was / And She Was (dub)	8/1985	Sire		54
23.	Road To Nowhere / Television Man 12" + Slippery People (live) / This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) (live)	10/1985	EMI	4
24.	And She Was / Perfect World	2/1986	EMI	12
25.	Once In A Lifetime (live) / This Must Be The Place (live)	4/1986	Sire	100	91
26.	Wild Wild Life / People Like Us	8/1986	Sire	28	25
27.	Love For Sale / Hey Now	11/1986	Sire
28.	Radio Head / Hey Now (movie version)	4/1987	Sire	52
29.	(Nothing But) Flowers / Ruby Dear (Bush mix) 10",CD + Mommy Daddy You And I 12" + Facts Of Life	4/1988	Sire	79
30.	Dead End Street	7/1988
31.	Blind / Bill	8/1988	Sire	59
32.	Lifetime Piling Up / Road To Nowhere CD1 + Love For Sale / The Lady Don't Mind (extended) CD2 + Stay Up Late / Radio Head / Take Me To The River	12.10.1992	EMI	50
33.	Don't Take My Kindness For Weakness	28.10.1996	Radioactive
34.	UXB Volume 2 & UXB, (samples of Once In A Lifetime)	01.03.1999	white label
35.	Once In A Lifetime (Same As It Never Was)	10.09.2001	Sire
36.	Once In A Lifetime / Bostich & Yello	15.04.2013	NK RMX
37.	Talking Heads EP (I Zimbra / Pull Up The Roots / Once In A Lifetime / Born Under Punches)	27.06.2013	Sire

Jerry Harrison:

#	SP/EP Title	Release Date	Label	UK	USA
1.	Things Fall Apart / Worlds In Collision	20.11.1981	Sire
2.	Rev It Up	1/1988		90
3.	A Perfect Lie	2/1988
4.	Man With A Gun	5/1988

David Byrne:

#	SP/EP Title	Release Date	Label	UK	USA
1.	The Jezebel Spirit / Regiment 12" + Very Very Hungry (Qu'ran) & Brian Eno	22.05.1981	EG
2.	Big Blue Plymouth (Eyes Wide Open) / Cloud Chamber 12" + Leg Bells / Light Bath	12/1981	Sire
3.	Three Big Songs EP (Big Business (remix) / My Big Hands (Fall Through The Cracks) / Big Blue Plymouth (Eyes Wide Open))	1982	Sire
4.	Make Believe Mambo / Lie To Me	11/1989	Luaka Bop
5.	Girls On My Mind / Monkey Man 12",CD + Cantode Oxum	09.03.1992	Luaka Bop
6.	Hanging Upside Down / Rockin' In The Free World CD1 + (Nothing But) Flowers / Girls On My Mind / Dirty Old Town CD2 + Something Ain't Right / Who Were You Thinking Of / Rockin' In The Free World	25.05.1992	Luaka Bop/Sire
7.	She's Mad / Someone 12" + Buck Naked (live) / Greenback Dollar (live) CD + Now I'm Your Man	20.07.1992	Luaka Bop/Sire
8.	Angel / Princess / Ready For This World	31.05.1994	Sire
9.	Back In The Box / Gypsy Woman (live) / Girls On My Mind (live)	26.09.1994	Sire
10.	Miss America	23.06.1997	Warner Bros
11.	Like Humans Do / All Over Me / Princess	5/2001	Luaka Bop
12.	Lazy & X-Press 2	08.04.2002	Skint
13.	The Heart's A Lonely Hunter 12" The Heart's A Lonely Hunter (Louie Vega remix) / The Heart's A Lonely Hunter (Thievery Corporation remix) / The Heart's A Lonely Hunter (album version) & Thievery Corporation	02.05.2005	Eighteenth Street Lounge Music
	Heart Is A Lonely Hunter (Louie Vega dubs) & Thievery Corporation	19.09.2005	R2
14.	Big Business	24.09.2007	Track Rabbit Supper
15.	Lazy & X-Press 2	06.10.2008	Skint
16.	Toe Jam & Dizzee Rascal & The BPA	06.10.2008	Ego Music
17.	Knotty Pine / So Far Around The Bend & Dirty Projectors & The National	02.02.2009	4AD
18.	Brass Tactics EP (Cissus / I Should Watch TV (M. Stine Remix) / Lightning (Kent Rockafeller Remix) / Marrow (live) / Road To Nowhere (live)) & St Vincent	5/2013

Videos:

1. Storytelling Giant - 1988
2. Chronology - 10.11.2011, Eagle Vision

David Byrne:

1. The Catherine Wheel - 5/1989, Hendring Video, & Twyla Tharp
2. Live At Union Chapel - 3/2005, Warner Music, live, 87 min

Movies:

1. Stop Making Sense (1983, live, directed by Jonathan Demm)
2. Something Wild (1986, music by David Byrne/John Cale, directed by Jonathan Demm)
3. True Stories (1986, music by a režie David Byrne)
4. The Last Emperor (1988, music by David Byrne, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci)
5. Ila Aiye (The House Of Life) (1989, directed by David Byrne)
6. Between The Teeth (1992, live, directed by David Byrne/David Wild)
7. American Utopia (9/2020)

Bibliography:

David Byrne: Stay Up Late (1987)

Awards:

1979 Melody Maker Album Of The Year ("Fear Of Music")
1980 Melody Maker Album Of The Year ("Remain In Light")
1983 Grammy Awards - Best Album Package ("Speaking In Tongues")
2002 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame
2004 Grammy Awards - Best Boxed Or Special Limited Edition Package ("Once In A Lifetime")
2021 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award

WWW Links:

http://www.zimbranet.com/talkingheads/archive/rs062697.html
http://www.bart.nl:88/~francey/th_db.html
http://www.talking-heads.net

Various:

reunited 8/95 - The Heads

Compilation Appearances:

"Wild Wild Life" on OST "Open Season" (26.9.06, Lost Highway)
"Life During Wartime" na OST "CBGB" (8.10.13, Omnivore)

Tina Weymouth:

18.6.1977 married Chrisem Frantzem

produced by LP:

Ziggy Marley: Conscious Party (4/88)
Happy Mondays: ... Yes Please! (28.9.92, Factory)
Angelfish: Suffocate Me (1993, Wasteland)
Angelfish: Angelfish (3/94, Radioactive)

produced by SP:

Happy Mondays: The Sunshine And Love (9.11.92, Factory)
Ofra Haza: Mata Hari (3/95, Ariola)

Chris Frantz:

18.6.1977 married Tinou Weymouth

produced by LP:

Ziggy Marley: Conscious Party (4/88)
Happy Mondays: ... Yes Please! (28.9.92, Factory)
Angelfish: Suffocate Me (1993, Wasteland)
Angelfish: Angelfish (3/94, Radioactive)

produced by SP:

Happy Mondays: The Sunshine And Love (9.11.92, Factory)
Ofra Haza: Mata Hari (3/95, Ariola)

David Byrne:

http://www.talking-heads.net/davidbyrne

own label Luaka Bop

music k stage performance "The Knee Plays" (1985)
music k stage performance "The Forest" (1988, r. Robert Wilson)

Compilation Appearances:

"Ain't Got So Far To Go" on Foundation For The Preservation Of The Mahayana Tradition benefit compilation "Mantra Mix" (24.10.00, Narada World)
"Ain't Got So Far To Go" on compilation "Future Soundtrack for America" (10.8.04, Barsuk)
"Dialog Box" on live compilation "Bonnaroo 2004" (5.4.05, Sanctuary)

produced by LP:

B-52's: Mesopotamia (1982, Island)
Fun Boy Three: Waiting (2/83, Chrysalis)
Vijaya Anand: Asia Classics 1: Dance Rajah Dance (1992, Luaka Bop)
Mimi: Soak (10.8.98, Luaka Bop)

appeared na video 10,000 Maniacs: MTV Unplugged (1994)

appeared on the LP:

N.A.S.A.: The Spirit Of Apollo (17.2.09, Anti-)
Brighton Port Authority: I Think We're Gonna Need A Bigger Boat (2.3.09)

appeared on the SP:

Anna Calvi: Strange Weather EP (14.7.14)

Awards:

1988 Grammy Awards - Best Album Of Original Instrumental Background Score Written For A Motion Picture Or Television ("The Last Emperor", & Ryuichi Sakamoto & Cong Su)
2009 Grammy Awards - Best Recording Package ("Everything That Happens Will Happen Today", & Brian Eno)

Jerry Harrison:

appeared on the LP:

The Ramones: Too Tough To Die (10/84, Sire)

produced by LP:

Violent Femmes: The Blind Leading The Naked (2/86, Slash)
Live: Mental Jewelry (21.4.92, Radioactive)
Live: Throwing Copper (1.5.94, Radioactive)
Neurotic Outsiders: Neurotic Outsiders (10.9.96, Maverick)
Big Head Todd & The Monsters: Beautiful World (17.2.97, Revolution)
Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band: Trouble Is (6.10.97, Revolution/BMG)
Josh Joplin Band: Useful Music (9.8.99, SMG)
Live: The Distance To Here (4.10.99, MCA)
Pat McGee Band: Shine (11.4.00, Giant)
The Von Bondies: Pawn Shoppe Heart (9.2.04, Sire)
O.A.R.: Stories Of A Stranger (4.10.05, Lava)
The Rides: Can't Get Enough (27.8.13)
String Cheese Incident: Song In My Head (29.4.14, Loud & Proud)

Press References:

Big Beng!
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1996	18	03.10.1996	5	Infokus
2002	7	04.04.2002	11	Infokus
Kruh
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1982	7		24		interview, gig review
Melodie
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1981	3		90		profile
1982	10		315		gig review
1988	5		21	Melodie ze světa
1988	12		21	Melodie ze světa
Melody Maker
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1977	21	21.05.1977	13		interview
1977	21	21.05.1977	51	Caught In The Act	gig review
1977	39	24.09.1977	14	Singles	single review
1977	49	03.12.1977	17	Singles	single review
1977	52	24.12.1977	32		interview
1978	4	28.01.1978	1
1978	4	28.01.1978	30		interview
1978	22	03.06.1978	14	Singles	single review
1978	28	15.07.1978	23	Albums	album review
1978	29	22.07.1978	18	Caught In The Act	gig review
1978	30	29.07.1978	9		profile
1978	39	07.10.1978	17	Singles	single review
1979	23	23.06.1979	31	Singles	single review
1979	31	18.08.1979	4	News
1979	31	18.08.1979	23	Albums	album review
1979	33	01.09.1979	5	US News	gig review
1979	34	08.09.1979	30	Caught In The Act	gig review
1979	39	13.10.1979	30	Singles	single review
1979	41	27.10.1979	3	News
1979	45	01.12.1979	34	Caught In The Act	gig review
1979	51	22.12.1979	23	Caught In The Act	gig review
1979	52	29.12.1979	16	1979 Records Of The
1980	7	15.02.1980	24	Singles	single review
1980	30	06.09.1980	3
1980	34	04.10.1980	6	US News
1980	43	06.12.1980	29	Caught In The Act	gig review
1980	45	20.12.1980	13	MM Album of the Year
1981	16	18.04.1981	6	US News
1981	19	09.05.1981	36	Singles	single review
1981	21	23.05.1981	43
1982	5	30.01.1982	3	Fast Forward
1982	13	27.03.1982	5	Fast Forward
1982	13	27.03.1982	23	Albums	album review
1982	24	12.06.1982	27	Datelines
1982	29	17.07.1982	24	Caught In The Act	gig review
1983	24	11.06.1983	4	Fast Forward
1983	24	11.06.1983	27	Albums	album review
1983	27	02.07.1983	4	Fast Forward - Record News
1983	30	23.07.1983	29	Singles	single review
1983	36	03.09.1983	16	It's Alive	gig review
1984	1	07.01.1984	4	Fast Forward - Record News
1984	36	20.10.1984	28	Albums	album review
1984	38	03.11.1984	26	Singles	single review
1992	36	05.09.1992	4	News
1992	42	17.10.1992	36	Albums - Retroactive	album review
1992	46	14.11.1992	3	News
1995	32	12.08.1995	44	Info Freako
1995	38	23.09.1995	4	News
1996	17	27.04.1996	52	Albums Of The Year	album review
New Musical Express
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1975	0	08.11.1975	6
1976	0	27.11.1976	11
Rock & Pop
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1994	19	27.09.1994	12
1994	21	25.10.1994	12		profile
1996	2		19	Galerie
2002	3		19	Pelmel
2004	11		83	Vykopávky	album review
Rolling Stone
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1999	3		12	Zoom