Last year, the Broadway musical “American Utopia” charmed audiences. Spike Lee signed on to direct the film version. Amy Schumer became such a groupie, she…
Last year, the Broadway musical “American Utopia” charmed audiences. Spike Lee signed on to direct the film version. Amy Schumer became such a groupie, she saw it six times and made Jennifer Lawrence and Phoebe Waller-Bridge attend with her. Fans raved about the optimism of David Byrne’s feel-good show.
However, a former bandmate told The Post that Byrne made his colleagues in Talking Heads feel anything but good. “Talking Heads was a group effort and David was the front person . but there was a vast network [behind him],” said drummer Chris Frantz, whose memoir “Remain in Love: Talking Heads, Tom Club, Tina” (St. Martin’s Press), is out Tuesday. “As far as I know, he never acknowledged that.”
And, Frantz writes, things only got worse over time: “It seemed that the more successful Talking Heads became, the more cold and dyspeptic David became.”
The band formed in 1974 at the Rhode Island School of Design, quickly writing their signature song “Psycho Killer.” Frantz recalled how he and bassist Tina Weymouth, who would become his wife, played key roles in crafting the lyrics, with Weymouth adding the iconic “qu’est-ce que c’est” line.
“Nobody knows these anecdotes,” said Frantz, “because David won’t tell anyone.
