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Most bands have been through a period of time when they don\u2019t see eye to eye. In fact, you\u2019d be hard-pressed to find a band<\/a> that hasn\u2019t had a disagreement at one point or another. <\/p>\n From the start, Talking Heads were a walking paradox. \u201cEverything we did was texturally entirely different,\u201d Tina Weymouth once said. She attributed their qualities to being an \u201cinteresting mix of people\u201d, each approaching their music from completely different angles.<\/p>\n \u201cChris came from the steel town of Pittsburgh and understood that raw Black American sound,\u201d she said, explaining the working formula, \u201cThen, there were myself, David and Jerry, who had been exposed to a lot of European classical music. So when you combine the African-American rhythms with that European melody, you get Talking Heads.\u201d<\/p>\n This weirdly enticing clash eventually turned into a band people would find impossible to define. They\u2019d come from the New York new wave scene with players like Blondie and Television, but they still played an entirely different game, bridging the gap between world music and post-punk in a way that shouldn\u2019t have even been possible.<\/p>\n At the forefront of it all was David Byrne\u2019s unique frontmanship. Unlike his peers, he didn\u2019t take to the stage with a palpable confidence or rockstar-esque energy, or conduct himself the way you\u2019d expect the face of one of the biggest bands in the world to. He appeared a little trepid, paranoid, knocking about in a suit three sizes too big, perhaps, the perfect demeanour for a band that looked at all the ways society made people feel inherently worrisome<\/a>. <\/p>\n Looking back, all you see is an iconic band at its peak. Byrne and the rest lit up a fire on stage, even if the flames didn\u2019t always fan out as expected by audiences. Most of the time, it was their weirdness that kept you looking, and obviously, the music, which was just in a completely different lane than anybody else\u2019s at the time. \u201cThey were rarefied times,\u201d Weymouth later said, and that they were like a weird time capsule that might not have even existed at all.<\/p>\n But behind the creative excellence, which came in spades, were tensions brewing beneath the surface. We all know how much of a genius Byrne is, but his attitude didn\u2019t always work for everybody. According to Weymouth, he\u2019d sometimes say one thing and mean another. \u201cDavid\u2019s a very different kind of person,\u201d she told The Guardian<\/a>, \u201cHe doesn\u2019t relate emotionally to things\u201d.<\/p>\n It\u2019s an easy analysis for anybody, but even Byrne eventually became aware that he might not have made things easier for those around him, especially when frustrations on Weymouth\u2019s part became so public. But mostly, he recognises that this came about because he was so focused on something else that he didn\u2019t have space for anything else. For instance, the obsessive state he went into around the Speaking in Tongues tour made him strange to be around.<\/p>\n \u201cI was probably a little bit less forthcoming [back then],\u201d Byrne explained, saying that most of this came from periods when he was \u201csingularly focused on getting something accomplished\u201d. <\/p>\n He went on, \u201cThat was a real obsession. I can imagine I must at times have been a real pain in the ass to deal with. 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