“Sometimes the world has aload of questions/Seems like the world knows nothing at all”
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TALKING Heads’ reunion last September, for abrief press tour to support the re-release of Jonathan Demme’s Stop Making Sense concert film, was one of music’s most unlikely comebacks. Here, after all, were a band who’d not just split acrimoniously –as recently as 2020, while promoting his Remain In Love memoir, Chris Frantz snipped at former bandmate David Byrne, “He can’t imagine that anyone else would be important” – but who had also moved creatively into very different spaces. Yet, coming together to celebrate their landmark movie, being in one another’s company for aperiod clearly found them reaching an accord. “We didn’t hate each other,” Tina Weymouth confides to Sam Richards in this month’s cover story. “We were just annoyed!”