Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to the 467th episode of The Hollywood Reporters

Awards Shatter Podcast, I'm the host Scott Feinberg, and my guest today is one of the

most talented and influential singer songwriters of the last 50 years.

An Oscar and Tony winner, he is also a 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award Grammy winner

and 2002 inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as part of the band for which he was

principal songwriter, lead singer, and guitarist from its formation in 1975 through its breakup

in 1991, Talking Heads, which is behind two selections on Rolling Stones 2020 list of

the 500 greatest albums of all time, number 364, more songs about buildings and food, and

number 39 remain in light, and two selections on Rolling Stones 2021 list of the 500 greatest

songs of all time, number 123, this must be the place, naive melody, and number 28 once in a

lifetime. He has been described by the New York Times as quote, an underground icon who

danced across genres as if they were all part of one vast amplified stage, close quote,

and someone who quote, has spent his whole career blurring the distinction between pop culture

and highbrow art, close quote, and Talking Heads have been called by the same publication

quote, the most consistently adventurous band to have emerged from Rock's new wave of

the mid 1970s, and a groundbreaking ensemble with a knack for hitching off-kilter lyrics

to postmodern beats, close quote, also noting that they quote, dissolve the barriers between

disco and rock, conceptual art, and dance pop, close quote.

All time magazine declared that they quote, made music that examined some of the oddest

spookiest manifestations of modern emotional life, saying songs that turned grim tidings

into deadpan jokes and disaffection into disarming social parables, close quote, while noting

that his lyrics quote, played four-wall handball with enemy, and floating all around the bands

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