After more than 50 years, an early demo of Talking Heads’ hit ‘Psycho Killer’ has surfaced at RISD
The tape of The Artistics, the first band of frontman David Byrne and drummer Chris Frantz, was recorded in a Providence apartment and is now in the RISD Archives.
Where did Talking Heads meet?
The founding members of Talking Heads met at the Rhode Island School of Design, when they each attended at the same time in the early 1970s.
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