Letting the trees go fine, let the water hold me up, letting the trees go fine, water

throwing up to the end to the blue up here, after the money money's gone once in a lifetime.

That's a little bit of the song once in a lifetime by talking heads off their 1980 masterpiece,

Remain in Light. Jim, both of us are off their

1980 masterpiece,

talking heads since their debut record in 1977

when the group burst out of the New York punk scene

with a sound up pretty much all its own at that time.

A sound and a look Greg the core of the band was always singer David Byrne drummer Chris France

bassist Tina Weymouth, and keyboardist and guitarist Jerry Harrison.

Talking Heads was this incredible Sonic blend of different elements that would eventually be called New Wave,

or Art Pop, or Funk, post-punk, you name it, they were all of those things.

Among the groups, leather-clad contemporaries at CBGB, like the Ramones, the Dead boys, or the more pop-oriented Blondie.

Talking heads didn't sound like anybody else.

And with their khakis and their collared eyes odd shirts, They didn't look like anybody else either.

Yes absolutely Jim and they went on to have a huge musical career making eight albums from

1977 through 1988 and releasing one of the most iconic

concert films ever made stop making sense.

Now each of the four members went on to a degree of individual success and Tina Weymouth and Chris

Franz found a second creative life with their group Tom Tom Club.

This week we're excited to talk with the drummer of Talking Heads and the person whose idea it was to get the band together in the first place, Chris France.

Chris recently released a memoir, Remain in Love, which tells the story of his life in Talking Heads and his personal and professional

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