{"id":683390,"date":"2026-06-04T06:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T06:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/683390\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T06:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T06:44:10","slug":"early-live-performance-by-talking-heads-1976","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/683390\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Live Performance by Talking Heads (1976)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In March 1976, Talking Heads played a show at <a href=\"https:\/\/thekitchen.org\/about\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Kitchen<\/a> in NYC; you can watch the entire show recorded from two angles <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=J4zqEuegfig\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in this video<\/a>. The band had formed the year before and was more than a year away from recording and releasing their debut album.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a great insight as to what these early Talking Heads shows were like, and with it also being in color, being good quality, and having two angles for most of the show, this is a must-watch.<\/p>\n<p>The band played for about 90 minutes (2 sets plus an encore), working through tracks like Psycho Killer, Thank You For Sending Me An Angel, and Love \u2192 Building On Fire. (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2022\/03\/watch-a-very-nervous-23-year-old-david-byrne-and-talking-heads-performing-live-in-nyc-1976.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">open culture<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In March 1976, Talking Heads played a show at The Kitchen in NYC; you can watch the entire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":683391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216],"class_list":["post-683390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/683391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}