A revealing inside account of the highs and lows of a band who looked
and sounded like nobody else' Olivia Laing, Guardian Forty years on from
the release of their era-defining album Remain in Light, Chris Frantz's
memoir tells the story of Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club.
Chris Frantz met David Byrne at the Rhode Island School of Art &
Design in the early 1970s. Together - and soon with Frantz's future
wife, Tina Weymouth - they formed Talking Heads and took up residence in
the grimy environs of Manhattan's Lower East Side, where their
neighbours were Patti Smith, William Burroughs and a host of proto-punk
artists who now have legendary status. Building an early audience and
reputation with many performances at CBGB alongside the Ramones,
Television and Blondie, Talking Heads found themselves feted by Warhol
(who famously referred to them as 'Talking Horses') and Lou Reed, and
signed to Sire Records.
A band whose sensibility was both a part
of, and apart from, punk, their early albums quickly became classics;
until the Brian Eno produced masterpiece Remain in Light, saw them
explode. Soon, however, relations within the band started to become
strained as a band that had always operated democratically lost its team
ethic. Chris and Tina started recording as Tom Tom Club in the early
'80s; in the process creating a hybrid of funk, disco, pop, electro and
world music that would have a huge impact on the club scene around the
world.
Warm and candid, funny and heartfelt, Remain in Love
charts the rise and fall of a band - in a decade they came to define -
who combined the sensibility of artists with visionary songwriting
talents. It is also the story of the once-in-a-lifetime love story and
creative partnership between Chris and Tina Weymouth, one of the
greatest rhythm sections to electrify the pop stage.
Remain in Love - Chris Frantz
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