Formed at RISD (Rhode Island School of Design) as the Artistics, by David Byrne and Chris Frantz after moving to New York the band morphed into The Talking Heads with the addition of Tina Weymouth, Frantz's girlfriend. The got their start opening for the Ramones at CBGB. Their first charting song from their first album, Talking Heads 77, was Psycho Killer, released coincidentally at the time the Son of Sam was stalking NYC, although it was written years earlier.
Pairing up with producer Brian Eno for their album More Songs About Buildings and Food, their cover of Al Green'sTake Me to the River hit #30 on the billboard charts.
Their followup album, Fear of Musicand its single Life During Wartimeproduced the catch-phrase "This ain't no party, this ain't no Disco".
More albums followed; Remain in Light, Speaking in Tongues, and at the height of their popularity in the mid-eighties, Little Creatures with the hit singles, Road to Nowhere, and And She Was
These were followed by True Stories and their final album Naked from which this last song, Totally Nude, comes.
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