{"id":890804,"date":"2026-10-22T13:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T13:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/890804\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T13:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T13:32:12","slug":"talking-heads-prepping-career-spanning-coffee-table-book-new-feeling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/890804\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking Heads Prepping Career-Spanning Coffee Table Book ‘New Feeling’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tTalking Heads<\/a> are preparing to chronicle their wild, wild life in music. The legendary art-punk quartet announced a coffee-table book<\/a> chronicling their career, New Feeling<\/a>, on Wednesday (Oct. 21), described as an \u201cupbeat, offbeat, over-the-top celebration\u201d of the band featuring original essays from singer David Byrne, drummer Chris Frantz, bassist Tina Weymouth and guitarist\/keyboardist Jerry Harrison.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe first authorized book by all four members will be published on May 18, 2027 in coordination with the 50th anniversary of the band\u2019s debut album, Talking Heads: 77. According to publisher Abrams Books, the collection traces the \u201cloose chronology\u201d<\/a> of the group from their formation at the Rhode Island School of Design to their emergence as the \u201cas clean-cut newcomers generating propulsive grooves in the gritty downtown music scene at New York\u2019s CBGB, through studio album releases, breakout hits like \u2018Burning Down the House,\u2019 international live tours, and ultimately to Jonathan Demme\u2019s dazzling 1984 concert film Stop Making Sense, which saw a rapturous revival in movie theaters in 2023.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn addition to the band essays, the 368-page book will feature the handwritten lyrics for \u201cPsycho Killer,\u201d \u201cLife During Wartime\u201d and other classics, as well as annotated concert playlists, album cover sketches, film and video storyboards \u2014\u00a0including behind-the-scenes material from the films True Stories and Stop Making Sense \u2014\u00a0and essays by contemporary musicians and writers including Jeff Bridges, Dave Eggers, Blondie\u2019s Debbie Harry, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Lorde, Questlove and James Wolcott.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe large-format book will feature hundreds of images as well as personal, performance and studio photographs from throughout their years of recording.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a video announcement<\/a>, Weymouth said, \u201cfor the first time, the four of us have come together to write and curate a comprehensive coffee table book on Talking Heads.\u201d Harrison added that among the treasures in the collection are personal photos that haven\u2019t left the band\u2019s archive in more than 40 years, as well as album sketches and other rare keepsakes. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe quartet\u2019s final studio album, Naked, was released in 1988, three years before Byrne left the group; the remaining trio soldiered on as the Shrunken Heads at first and then, in 1996, released an album called No Talking, Just Head as the Heads before calling it quits. The Talking Heads were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2002 \u2014\u00a0where they reunited to perform some of their most beloved hits \u2014\u00a0and have appeared together a handful of times over the past few years, including in 2023 to promote the remastered 40th anniversary re-release of Stop Making Sense.<\/p>\n