He wanted to be billed as an equal member of Talking Heads on their album cover, which the band’s manager, eventually, talked him out of. “He was trying to make it seem like it was his show,” said Frantz.The pattern repeated with an early Talking Heads’ song, Warning Sign, which Byrne wrote with Frantz. “He was like an Archie Bunker type,” said Frantz, with a laugh. The ex-Talking Heads drummer talks about his revealing new book Remain in Love and a contentious relationship with the band’s frontmanDavid Byrne overwhelms the image of “It’s like he can’t help himself,” Frantz said in a phone interview. This “DAZZLING, JUBILANT AND RAPTUROUS" New York Times Critic’s Pick — featuring “altogether astonishing choreography by ANNIE-B PARSON” (The New York Times), with Tony ®-nominated ALEX TIMBERS (director of Moulin Rouge! “‘If you think the guys are bad,’” Frantz says his wife told him, “‘You should have heard the chicks.’”Despite Talking Heads’ internal issues, they managed to produce incredible music through 1988’s Naked. David Byrne is a musician, author, and interdisciplinary artist—best known for fronting the American rock band Talking Heads, one the most critically acclaimed bands of the 1980s. David Byrne Presents: Masters of Soundtracks - Ennio MorriconeDavid Byrne Presents: abstract- popDavid Byrne Presents: Indie PopNYT Review: ‘American Utopia’ Is David Byrne’s NeighborhoodDavid Byrne Presents: Masters of Soundtracks - Bernard HerrmannDavid Byrne Presents: Masters of Soundtracks - Nino RotaDavid Byrne Presents: Under the CoversDavid Byrne Presents: I Am My Own AlgorithmOn the Horizon: The Shows Heading to Broadway in the 2019–2020 SeasonDavid Byrne Releases June Radio Presents Playlist “The Funky Broadway”David Byrne Presents: The Funky BroadwayDavid Byrne to Bring American Utopia to Broadway and BostonDavid Byrne Announces ‘American Utopia’ Broadway ResidencyDavid Byrne’s ‘American Utopia’ Sets Broadway and Boston Dates Frantz and Weymouth did receive co-writing credit for Talking Heads’ first single, Psycho Killer, which, the drummer revealed, was inspired by the wry morbidity of Alice Cooper. “We were very conscious that we should have a different demeanor than, say, the New York Dolls,” Frantz said.But by Talking Heads’ second album, More Songs About Buildings and Food, for which Frantz provided the title, they drew more on the funk and dance beats that had inspired the drummer since childhood. “if you knew It wasn’t only from men. He was supposed to be part of a group visual art show but sneaked into the gallery before the opening to rehang his own pieces in a front room, pushing the others to the back. While he used to come off as odd and distant, in the last two decades he has radiated nothing but warmth, positivity and charm. Yet, by this point, things started to get more tense with Eno.
As evidence, his book proudly details the artistic highlights of a band that rates as one of music’s most creative units – a group so visionary that, as he writes, “We were post-punk before punk even happened.”In his book, Frantz also writes about his 42-year marriage to Weymouth with a warmth and awe that inspired its title.
Lou was a good friend and continued to be, despite that.”Still, the meatiest part of Frantz’s book bores into the relationship between Byrne and the other three Heads, including guitarist Jerry Harrison.