When Byrne mounted the acclaimed Broadway show “American Utopia” a few years ago, featuring many Talking Heads songs, Frantz was stung not to even be invited.Īs the group congregated the morning after the “Stop Making Sense” premiere for an interview, though, they were cordial with each other. Frantz, who’s married to Weymouth, published a 2020 memoir that described some of the discord and lingering hurts. Byrne has said he regrets his role in the band’s “ugly” dissolution.

Since they officially broke up in 1991, the four members of Talking Heads have often squabbled, bitterly. Byrne, the band’s principal songwriter and singer, keyboardist-guitarist Jerry Harrison, bassist Tina Weymouth and drummer Chris Frantz - who last gathered together in 2002 for their induction to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame - have assembled once more for the rerelease of “Stop Making Sense.”

Its power to bring together - it opens with Byrne alone on a spare stage and swells into an art-funk spectacular - is such that it’s even managed to reunite the Talking Heads, too.įor the first time in 21 years, the Talking Heads are a band again, even if only in movie theaters. “But how could you not?”įor nearly four decades, “Stop Making Sense,” directed by Jonathan Demme, has exerted an inexorable pull on all who encounter the frenetic fever of arguably the finest concert film ever made. “For a moment I thought, ‘Is it OK for me to get up and dance at our own movie?” Byrne says, laughing, the morning after. In the theater, he was dancing, too, along with a crowd who couldn’t stay seated for “Burning Down the House.” On screen was a young, elastic David Byrne.

That was the once-in-a-lifetime scenario when the new 4K restoration of “Stop Making Sense” premiered recently at the Toronto International Film Festival. TORONTO (AP) - You may find yourself in a movie theater with “Stop Making Sense” playing and the members of Talking Heads in the audience.

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