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Life During Wartime

Certain Songs #2620: Talking Heads – “Life During Wartime (Central Park 08-27-1980)”

May 18, 2023 by Jim Connelly

Album: The Name of This Band is Talking Heads
Year: 1980

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In the summer of 1980, at around the same time Talking Heads were working on Remain in Light, they decided that they would add more musicians for their live performances. And while a couple of them — guitarist Adrian Belew and vocalist Nona Hendryx — were on the album, the rest were not. Those rest were singer Dolette McDonald, percussionist Steve Scales, bassist Busta “Cherry” Jones — most notably — Funkadelic keyboardist Bernie Worrell. From the start, the sound this band made was incredible, and as captured on The Name of This Band is Talking Heads, is some of the greatest live music ever recorded full stop.

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