In the wake of delivering Talking Heads frontman David Byrne his second Oscar nomination with Everything Everywhere All at Once, A24 has acquired worldwide rights to his former band’s 1984 cu…
stars core band members David Byrne, Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz, and Jerry Harrison along with Bernie Worrell, Alex Weir, Steve Scales, Lynn Mabry and Edna Holt. The live performance was shot over the course of three nights at Hollywood’s Pantages Theater in December of 1983 and features Talking Heads’ most memorable songs including “Burning Down the House,” “Life During Wartime,” “Take Me to the River,” “Psycho Killer,” and “Once in a Lifetime.
The Talking Heads beamed in a statement about the news, “There was a band. There was a concert. This must be the movie!” The band broke up in 1991, and played briefly at a 2002 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction.
A funny teaser dropped with the news early this morning showing Byrne going to a dry cleaners where he hands in his ticket and says “I’m picking up. It’s been here for a while.” We then see him retrieve his famed big suit fromwhich he goes home, tries on, and dances around to the song “This Must Be the Place.”
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