How Music Works.
San Francisco: McSweeney's, 2012. First edition, first printing. Publisher's white padded boards. Fine. Item #236938
LISTENING TO TALKING HEADS
Wearing "the sort of clothes our moms sent us for Christmas," the Talking Heads made their 1975 live debut at CBGB. In the face of the put-together Beatles and glam rock Bowie, David Byrne and his bandmates seemed unremarkable, with only ten people attending the show. However, over the course of the next two decades, the Talking Heads redefined 70s rock and roll, folding together modern art sensibilities, funk rhythm, and the experimental nature of punk within their clean-cut image, eventually landing them in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002.
David Byrne captures his genre-altering music expertise in How Music Works, which functions halfway between a memoir, tracing the Talking Heads' discography, and a text on music theory. Byrne's sheer joy in the musical process seeps into his musings on the influence of birdsong on the human body and how someone can spend their whole life in music.
This copy is signed by David Byrne on the full title page.
Price: $350.00