EAN: 9780063022980

Bilder-Quelle: averdo

"Definitive...Not just for Talking Heads fans—it’s a masterful dive into downtown New York in the 70s and the changing face of rock music.”— Town & Country " Riveting" — New York Post "A masterful achievement." — Booklist (starred review) On the 50th anniversary of Talking Heads acclaimed music biographer Jonathan Gould presents the long-overdue definitive story of this singular band capturing the gritty energy of 1970s New York City and showing how a group of art students brought fringe culture to rock’s mainstream forever changing the look and sound of popular music.  “Psycho Killer.” “Take Me to the River.” “Road to Nowhere.” Few musical artists have had the lasting impact and relevance of Talking Heads. One of the foundational bands of New York’s downtown 1970s music scene Talking Heads have endured as a musical and cultural force for decades. Their unique brand of transcendent experimental rock remains a lingering influence on popular music—despite their having disbanded over thirty years ago. Now New Yorker contributor Jonathan Gould offers an authoritative deeply researched account of a band whose sound fame and legacy forever connected rock music to the cultural avant-garde. From their art school origins to the enigmatic charisma of David Byrne and the internal tensions that ultimately broke them apart Gould tells the story of a group that emerged when rock music was still young and went on to redefine the prevailing expectations of how a band could sound look and act. At a time when guitar solos lead-singer swagger and sweaty stadium tours reigned supreme Talking Heads were precocious awkward quirky and utterly distinctive when they first appeared on the ragged stages of the East Village. Yet they would soon mature into one of the most accomplished and uncompromising recording and performing acts of their era. More than just a biography of a band Gould masterfully captures the singular time and place that incubated and nurtured this original music: downtown New York in the 1970s that much romanticized little understood milieu where art music and commerce collided in the urban dystopia of Lower Manhattan. What emerges is an expansive portrait of a unique cultural moment and an iconoclastic band that shifted the paradigm of popular music by burning down the house of mainstream rock.

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