Talking Heads

American rock band

For other uses, see Talking Heads (disambiguation).

Talking Heads

Talking Heads c. 1980; left to right: David Byrne, Jerry Harrison, Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz

Background information
Also known as| The Artistics, Shrunken Heads, the Heads
Origin|

* Providence, Rhode Island[1]: 24
* New York City

Genres|

* New wave[2]
* post-punk[3]
* avant-funk[4]
* art pop[5]
* worldbeat[6]
* dance-rock[7]

Discography| Talking Heads discography
Years active|

* 1975–1991
* 2002

Labels|

* Sire
* Warner Bros.

Spinoffs|

* Tom Tom Club
* Casual Gods
* The Heads

Past members|

* David Byrne
* Chris Frantz
* Tina Weymouth
* Jerry Harrison

Website| talkingheadsofficial.com

Talking Heads were an American rock band that formed in 1975 in New York City.[2] The band was composed of David Byrne (lead vocals, guitar), Chris Frantz (drums), Tina Weymouth (bass) and Jerry Harrison (keyboards, guitar). Described as "one of the most critically acclaimed bands of the '80s,"[6] Talking Heads helped to pioneer new wave music by combining elements of punk, art rock, funk, and world music with an anxious, clean-cut image.[6]

Byrne, Frantz and Weymouth met as freshman students at the Rhode Island School of Design, where they formed a band called the Artistics.[1]: 24 They moved to New York City in 1975, joined the New York punk scene, recruited Harrison, and changed their name to Talking Heads. Their debut album, Talking Heads: 77, was released in 1977 to positive reviews.[8] They collaborated with the British producer Brian Eno on the acclaimed albums More Songs About Buildings and Food (1978), Fear of Music (1979), and Remain in Light (1980), which blended their art school sensibilities with influence from artists such as Parliament-Funkadelic and Fela Kuti.[6] From the early 1980s, they included additional musicians in their recording sessions and shows, including guitarist Adrian Belew, keyboardist Bernie Worrell, singer Nona Hendryx, and bassist Busta Jones.

After a hiatus, Talking Heads reached their commercial peak in 1983 with the U.S. Top 10 hit "Burning Down the House" from the album Speaking in Tongues. In 1984, they released the concert film Stop Making Sense, directed by Jonathan Demme. For these performances, they were joined by Worrell, the guitarist Alex Weir, the percussionist Steve Scales and the singers Lynn Mabry and Ednah Holt.[6] In 1985, Talking Heads released their best-selling album, Little Creatures. They produced a soundtrack album for Byrne's film True Stories (1986), and released their final album, worldbeat-influenced Naked (1988), before disbanding in 1991. Without Byrne, the other band members performed under the name Shrunken Heads, and released an album, No Talking, Just Head, as the Heads in 1996.

In 2002, Talking Heads were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Four of their albums appeared in Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time in 2003, and three of their songs ("Psycho Killer", "Life During Wartime", and "Once in a Lifetime") were included among the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll.[9] Talking Heads were also number 64 on VH1's list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time".[10] In the 2011 update of Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Artists of All Time", they were ranked number 100.[11]

## History[edit]

### 1973–1977: Early years[edit]

In 1973, Rhode Island School of Design students David Byrne (guitar and vocals) and Chris Frantz (drums) formed a band, the Artistics.[1]: 28 [12] Fellow student Tina Weymouth, Frantz's girlfriend, often provided transportation. The Artistics dissolved the following year, and the three moved to New York City, eventually sharing a communal loft.[13] After they were unable to find a bassist, Weymouth took up the role. Frantz encouraged Weymouth to learn to play bass by listening to Suzi Quatro albums.[14] Byrne asked Weymouth to audition three times before she joined the band.[15]

Jerry Harrison & David Byrne on guitars Minneapolis in 1977

The band played their first gig as Talking Heads, opening for the Ramones at CBGB on June 5, 1975.[2] According to Weymouth, the name Talking Heads came from an issue of TV Guide, which "explained the term used by TV studios to describe a head-and-shoulder shot of a person talking as 'all content, no action'. It fit."[16] Later that year, the band recorded a series of demos for CBS, but did not receive a record contract. However, they drew a following and signed to Sire Records in November 1976. They released their first single in February the following year, "Love → Building on Fire". In March 1977, they added Jerry Harrison, formerly of Jonathan Richman's band the Modern Lovers, on keyboards, guitar, and backing vocals.[17]

The first Talking Heads album, Talking Heads: 77, received acclaim and produced their first charting single, "Psycho Killer".[18] Many connected the song to the serial killer known as the Son of Sam, who had been terrorizing New York City months earlier; however, Byrne said he had written the song years prior.[19] Weymouth and Frantz married in 1977.[20]

### 1978–1980: Collaborations with Brian Eno[edit]

Main articles: More Songs About Buildings and Food, Fear of Music, and Remain in Light

More Songs About Buildings and Food (1978) was Talking Heads' first collaboration with the producer Brian Eno, who had previously worked with Roxy Music, David Bowie, John Cale and Robert Fripp;[21] the title of Eno's 1977 song "King's Lead Hat" is an anagram of the band's name. Eno's unusual style meshed with the group's artistic sensibilities, and they began to explore an increasingly diverse range of musical directions, from post-punk to psychedelic funk to African music, influenced prominently by Fela Kuti and Parliament-Funkadelic.[22][23][24] This recording also established the band's relationship with Compass Point Studios in Nassau, Bahamas. More Songs About Buildings and Food included a cover of Al Green's "Take Me to the River". This took Talking Heads into the public consciousness and gave them their first Billboard Top 30 hit.[24]

Talking Heads perform. Pictured: Harrison (left) and Byrne. Harrison (left), Frantz (middle) and Byrne (right) performing with Talking Heads in 1978

The collaboration continued with Fear of Music (1979), with the darker stylings of post-punk rock, mixed with white funkadelia and subliminal references to the geopolitical instability of the late 1970s.[24] Music journalist Simon Reynolds cited Fear of Music as representing the Eno-Talking Heads collaboration "at its most mutually fruitful and equitable".[25] The single "Life During Wartime" produced the catchphrase "This ain't no party, this ain't no disco".[26] The song refers to the Mudd Club and CBGB, two popular New York nightclubs of the time.[27]

Remain in Light (1980) was heavily influenced by the afrobeat of the Nigerian bandleader Fela Kuti, whose music Eno had introduced to the band. It explored West African polyrhythms, weaving these together with Arabic music from North Africa, disco funk, and "found" voices.[28] These combinations foreshadowed Byrne's later interest in world music.[29] In order to perform these more complex arrangements, the band toured with an expanded group, including Adrian Belew and Bernie Worrell, among others, first at the Heatwave festival in August,[30] and later in their concert film Stop Making Sense.[citation needed]

During this period, Weymouth and Frantz formed a commercially successful splinter group, Tom Tom Club, influenced by the foundational elements of hip hop,[31] and Harrison released his first solo album, The Red and the Black.[32] Byrne and Eno released My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, which incorporated world music, found sounds and a number of other prominent international and post-punk musicians.[33]

"Once in a Lifetime"

The fourth song from Remain in Light utilized Eno's Oblique Strategies technique and featured Byrne's alienated meditation on life. The song was named one of the 100 most important American musical works of the 20th century by NPR.[34]

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Remain in Light's lead single, "Once in a Lifetime", became a Top 20 hit in the UK, but initially failed to make an impression in the USA. It grew into a popular standard over the next few years on the strength of its music video, which Time named one of the greatest of all time.[35][36]

### 1981–1991: Commercial peak and breakup[edit]

After releasing four albums in barely four years, the group went on a recording hiatus, and nearly three years passed before their next release, although Frantz and Weymouth continued to record with the Tom Tom Club. In the meantime, Talking Heads released a live album The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads, toured the United States and Europe as an eight-piece group, and parted ways with Eno,[37] who went on to produce albums with U2.[21]

1983 saw the release of Speaking in Tongues, a commercial breakthrough that produced the band's only American Top 10 hit, "Burning Down the House".[38] Once again, a striking video was inescapable owing to its heavy rotation on MTV.[39] The following tour was documented in Jonathan Demme's Stop Making Sense, which generated another live album of the same name.[40] The tour in support of Speaking in Tongues was their last.[41]

> I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house… love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film, I sing it to a lamp.

—David Byrne, interviewing himself in Stop Making Sense[42]

Three more albums followed: 1985's Little Creatures (which featured the hit singles "And She Was" and "Road to Nowhere"),[43] 1986's True Stories (Talking Heads covering all the soundtrack songs of Byrne's musical comedy film, in which the band also appeared),[44] and 1988's Naked. Little Creatures offered a much more American pop-rock sound as opposed to previous efforts.[45] Similar in genre, True Stories hatched one of the group's most successful hits, "Wild Wild Life", and the accordion-driven track "Radio Head".[46] Naked explored politics, sex, and death, and showed heavy African influence with polyrhythmic styles like those seen on Remain in Light.[47] During that time, the group was falling increasingly under David Byrne's control and, after Naked, the band went on "hiatus".[6] In 1987 Talking Heads released a book by David Byrne called What the Songs Look Like: Contemporary Artists Interpret Talking Heads Songs with HarperCollins that contained artwork by some of the top New York visual artists of the decade.

Tina Weymouth, pictured here performing in 1986, and her husband Chris Frantz formed the side project Tom Tom Club.

In December 1991, Talking Heads announced that they had disbanded.[6] Frantz said that he learned that Byrne had left from an article in the Los Angeles Times, and said: "As far as we're concerned, the band never really broke up. David just decided to leave."[48] Their final release was "Sax and Violins", an original song that had appeared earlier that year on the soundtrack to Wim Wenders' Until the End of the World. Byrne continued his solo career, releasing Rei Momo in 1989 and The Forest in 1991.[29] This period also saw a revived flourish from both Tom Tom Club (Boom Boom Chi Boom Boom and Dark Sneak Love Action)[49] and Harrison (Casual Gods and Walk on Water), who toured together in 1990.[50]

### 1992–present: Post-breakup and reunions[edit]

Weymouth, Frantz, and Harrison toured without Byrne as Shrunken Heads in the early 1990s.[51] In 1996, they released an album, No Talking, Just Head, under the name the Heads. The album featured a number of vocalists, including Gavin Friday of The Virgin Prunes, Debbie Harry of Blondie, Johnette Napolitano of Concrete Blonde, Andy Partridge of XTC, Gordon Gano of Violent Femmes, Michael Hutchence of INXS, Ed Kowalczyk of Live, Shaun Ryder of Happy Mondays, Richard Hell, and Maria McKee.[52] It was accompanied by a tour with Napolitano as the vocalist. Byrne took legal action to prevent the band using the name The Heads, which he saw as "a pretty obvious attempt to cash in on the Talking Heads name".[53] The band briefly reunited in 1999 to promote the 15th anniversary re-release of Stop Making Sense, but did not perform together.[54]

Harrison produced records including the Violent Femmes' The Blind Leading the Naked, the Fine Young Cannibals' The Raw and the Cooked, General Public's Rub It Better, Crash Test Dummies' God Shuffled His Feet, Live's Mental Jewelry, Throwing Copper and The Distance to Here, and No Doubt's song "New" from Return of Saturn.[55] Frantz and Weymouth have produced several artists, including Happy Mondays and Ziggy Marley. The Tom Tom Club continue to record and tour intermittently.[56]

Weymouth, Frantz, and Harrison at SXSW in 2010

Talking Heads reunited to play "Life During Wartime", "Psycho Killer", and "Burning Down the House" on March 18, 2002, at the ceremony of their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, joined on stage by the former touring members Bernie Worrell and Steve Scales.[57] Byrne said further work together was unlikely, due to "bad blood" and being musically "miles apart".[58] Weymouth has been critical of Byrne, describing him as "a man incapable of returning friendship"[58] and saying that he did not "love" her, Frantz, and Harrison.[14] In 2020, Frantz published a memoir about his relationship with Weymouth, Remain in Love, which covered the band's conflicts.[59]

In September 2023, Stop Making Sense was rereleased in IMAX format with remastered sound and picture to coincide with the film's 40th anniversary.[60] The band members reunited for a live Q&A at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 11, 2023, following limited showings of the film in theaters,[59][61] and have given subsequent interviews together to promote the rerelease.[62] In regards to the possibility of a Talking Heads reunion tour, Harrison told the Los Angeles Times, "Right now, we're concentrating on Stop Making Sense and how much fun we're having revisiting the film. We're living in the moment, so that's all we're thinking about."[63]

## Influence[edit]

AllMusic stated that Talking Heads, one of the most celebrated bands of the 1970s and 1980s,[6] by the time of their breakup "had recorded everything from art-funk to polyrhythmic worldbeat explorations and simple, melodic guitar pop".[6] Talking Heads' art pop innovations have had a long-lasting impact.[64] Along with other groups such as Devo, Ramones, and Blondie, they helped define the new wave genre in the United States.[65] Meanwhile, their more cosmopolitan hits like 1980's Remain in Light helped bring African rock to the western world.[66] Their 1984 concert film Stop Making Sense, directed by Jonathan Demme, is considered one of the best concert films ever released.[67]

Talking Heads have been cited as an influence by many artists, including Eddie Vedder,[68]LCD Soundsystem,[69] Foals,[70] the Weeknd,[71] Vampire Weekend,[72] Primus,[73] Bell X1,[74] the 1975,[75] the Ting Tings,[76] Nelly Furtado,[77] Kesha,[78] St. Vincent,[79] Danny Brown,[80] Trent Reznor[81] and Franz Ferdinand.[82] Radiohead took their name from the 1986 Talking Heads song "Radio Head",[83] and cited Remain in Light as a critical influence on their 2000 album Kid A.[84] The Italian filmmaker and director Paolo Sorrentino, receiving the Oscar for his film La Grande Bellezza in 2014, thanked Talking Heads, among others, as his sources of inspiration.[85]

## Members[edit]

* David Byrne – lead vocals, guitar (1975–1991, 2002)
* Chris Frantz – drums, percussion, backing vocals (1975–1991, 2002)
* Tina Weymouth – bass, backing vocals (1975–1991, 2002)
* Jerry Harrison – keyboards, guitar, backing vocals (1977–1991, 2002)

### Additional musicians[edit]

* Adrian Belew – lead guitar, vocals (1980–1981)
* Alex Weir – guitar, vocals (1982–1984)
* Bernie Worrell – keyboards, backing vocals (1980–1984, 2002; died 2016)
* Raymond Jones – keyboards (1982)
* Busta Jones – bass (1980–1981; died 1995)
* Steve Scales – percussion, backing vocals (1980–1984, 2002)
* Dolette McDonald – vocals, cowbell (1980–1982)
* Nona Hendryx – vocals (1980, 1982)
* Ednah Holt – vocals (1983)
* Lynn Mabry – vocals (1983–1984)
* Stephanie Spruill – vocals (1984)

### Timeline[edit]

## Discography[edit]

Main article: Talking Heads discography

* Talking Heads: 77 (1977)
* More Songs About Buildings and Food (1978)
* Fear of Music (1979)
* Remain in Light (1980)
* Speaking in Tongues (1983)
* Little Creatures (1985)
* True Stories (1986)
* Naked (1988)

## See also[edit]

* List of dance-rock artists
* List of funk rock bands
* List of new wave artists and bands
* List of post-punk bands

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## Further reading[edit]

* Bowman, David (3 April 2001). This Must Be the Place: The Adventures of Talking Heads in the Twentieth Century. HarperEntertainment. ISBN 978-0380978465. LCCN 00046082. OCLC 44914246. OL 7435999M. Retrieved 3 January 2023 - via Internet Archive.`{{cite book}}`: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
* Byrne, David (12 September 2012). How Music Works. McSweeney's. ISBN 978-1936365531. LCCN 2017561795. OCLC 746834427. OL 26882017M. Retrieved 3 January 2023 - via Internet Archive.`{{cite book}}`: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
* Frantz, Chris (21 July 2020). Remain in Love: Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Tina (Illustrated ed.). St. Martin's Publishing. ISBN 978-1250209221. LCCN 2020002700. OCLC 1137735530. OL 28244911M.
* Krista Reese, The Name of This Book is Talking Heads (London: Proteus Books, 1982). ISBN 0-86276-057-7.
* Sytze Steenstra, Song and Circumstance: The Work of David Byrne from Talking Heads to the Present (New York and London: Continuum Books, 2010). ISBN 978-08264-4168-3.
* Talking Heads and Frank Olinsky, What the Songs Look Like: Contemporary Artists Interpret Talking Heads Songs (New York: Harper & Row, 1987). ISBN 0-06-096205-4.
* Wilcox, Tyler (October 3, 2016). "Talking Heads' Road to Remain in Light". Pitchfork.

## External links[edit]

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Talking Heads

* David Byrne
* Chris Frantz
* Jerry Harrison
* Tina Weymouth

Studio albums|

* Talking Heads: 77
* More Songs About Buildings and Food
* Fear of Music
* Remain in Light
* Speaking in Tongues
* Little Creatures
* True Stories
* Naked

Live albums|

* The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads
* Stop Making Sense

Compilations|

* Popular Favorites 1976–1992: Sand in the Vaseline
* Once in a Lifetime: The Best of Talking Heads
* Once in a Lifetime
* The Best of Talking Heads
* Talking Heads
* Bonus Rarities and Outtakes

Singles|

* "Love → Building on Fire"
* "Psycho Killer"
* "Take Me to the River"
* "Life During Wartime"
* "I Zimbra"
* "Cities"
* "Crosseyed and Painless"
* "Once in a Lifetime"
* "Houses in Motion"
* "Burning Down the House"
* "This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)"
* "Girlfriend Is Better"
* "Road to Nowhere"
* "And She Was"
* "Wild Wild Life"
* "Blind"
* "(Nothing But) Flowers"
* "Sax and Violins"

Other songs|

* "Thank You for Sending Me an Angel"
* "Heaven"
* "Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)"

Filmography|

* Stop Making Sense
* True Stories
* Storytelling Giant

Related articles|

* Discography
* Songs
* How Music Works
* "King's Lead Hat"
* My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
* No Talking, Just Head
* "Damage I've Done"
* Sounds from True Stories
* Tom Tom Club

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Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award

1963–1990|

* 1963
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* 1965
* Frank Sinatra
* 1966
* Duke Ellington
* 1967
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* 1968
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* 1971
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* 1972
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* 1987
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* 1997
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* Charles Mingus
* Oscar Peterson
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* 1998
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* 1999
* Johnny Cash
* Sam Cooke
* Otis Redding
* Smokey Robinson
* Mel Tormé
* 2000
* Harry Belafonte
* Woody Guthrie
* John Lee Hooker
* Mitch Miller
* Willie Nelson

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* 2001
* The Beach Boys
* Tony Bennett
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* Bob Marley
* The Who
* 2002
* Count Basie
* Rosemary Clooney
* Perry Como
* Al Green
* Joni Mitchell
* 2003
* Etta James
* Johnny Mathis
* Glenn Miller
* Tito Puente
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* 2004
* Van Cliburn
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* Ella Jenkins
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* Artie Shaw
* Doc Watson
* 2005
* Eddy Arnold
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* The Carter Family
* Morton Gould
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* The Staple Singers
* 2006
* David Bowie
* Cream
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* Robert Johnson
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* Richard Pryor
* The Weavers
* 2007
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* Bob Wills
* 2008
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* The Band
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* Max Roach
* Earl Scruggs
* 2009
* Gene Autry
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* The Four Tops
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* Dean Martin
* Tom Paxton
* 2010
* Leonard Cohen
* Bobby Darin
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* Michael Jackson
* Loretta Lynn
* André Previn
* Clark Terry

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* 2011
* Julie Andrews
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* Juilliard String Quartet
* The Kingston Trio
* Dolly Parton
* Ramones
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* 2012
* The Allman Brothers Band
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* 2013
* Glenn Gould
* Charlie Haden
* Lightnin' Hopkins
* Carole King
* Patti Page
* Ravi Shankar
* The Temptations
* 2014
* The Beatles
* Clifton Chenier
* The Isley Brothers
* Kraftwerk
* Kris Kristofferson
* Armando Manzanero
* Maud Powell
* 2015
* Bee Gees
* Pierre Boulez
* Buddy Guy
* George Harrison
* Flaco Jiménez
* The Louvin Brothers
* Wayne Shorter
* 2016
* Ruth Brown
* Celia Cruz
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* Jefferson Airplane
* Linda Ronstadt
* Run-DMC
* 2017
* Shirley Caesar
* Ahmad Jamal
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* 2018
* Hal Blaine
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* Emmylou Harris
* Louis Jordan
* The Meters
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* 2019
* Black Sabbath
* George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic
* Billy Eckstine
* Donny Hathaway
* Julio Iglesias
* Sam & Dave
* Dionne Warwick
* 2020
* Chicago
* Roberta Flack
* Isaac Hayes
* Iggy Pop
* John Prine
* Public Enemy
* Sister Rosetta Tharpe

2021–present|

* 2021
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* Lionel Hampton
* Marilyn Horne
* Salt-N-Pepa
* Selena
* Talking Heads
* 2022
* Bonnie Raitt
* 2023
* Bobby McFerrin
* Nirvana
* Ma Rainey
* Slick Rick
* Nile Rodgers
* The Supremes
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame – Class of 2002

Performers|

* Isaac Hayes
* Brenda Lee
* Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
* Ron Blair, Mike Campbell, Howie Epstein, Stan Lynch, Tom Petty, Benmont Tench
* Gene Pitney
* Ramones
* Dee Dee Ramone, Joey Ramone, Johnny Ramone, Marky Ramone, Tommy Ramone
* Talking Heads
* David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison, Tina Weymouth

Non-performers
(Ahmet Ertegun Award)|

* Jim Stewart

Sidemen|

* Chet Atkins

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David Byrne

* Awards and nominations
* Discography

Studio albums|

* My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (with Brian Eno)
* Rei Momo
* Uh-Oh
* David Byrne
* Feelings
* Look into the Eyeball
* Grown Backwards
* Everything That Happens Will Happen Today (with Brian Eno)
* Love This Giant (with St. Vincent)
* American Utopia

Live albums|

* David Byrne Live at Union Chapel
* Live from Austin, TX
* Live at Carnegie Hall

Soundtrack albums|

* The Catherine Wheel
* Music for "The Knee Plays"
* Sounds from True Stories
* The Last Emperor
* The Forest
* In Spite of Wishing and Wanting
* Lead Us Not into Temptation
* Big Love: Hymnal
* Here Lies Love (with Fatboy Slim)

Remix albums|

* The Visible Man

Singles|

* "The Jezebel Spirit"
* "Like Humans Do"
* "Strange Overtones"

Featured singles|

* "Toe Jam"

Concert tours|

* Songs of David Byrne and Brian Eno Tour
* Love This Giant Tour

Other works|

* True Stories
* Playing the Building
* How Music Works

Related articles|

* Talking Heads
* Luaka Bop
* Ride, Rise, Roar
* American Utopia

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* Trove

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