Jonathan Lethem - Talking Heads' Fear of Music (Book) Format:Paperback Kelly Price

Kelly Price

and drummer Bill Ward

B1 The Down Below B2 Lazy Garden B3 Subito

First available as part of the box set 1971-1974

Under Cover of Darkness

Jonathan Lethem - Talking Heads' Fear of Music (Book) Format:Paperback Kelly PriceIt's the summer of 1979. A 15 year old boy listens to WNEW on the radio in his bedroom in Brooklyn. A monotone voice (it's the singer's) announces into dead air in between songs "Talking Heads have a new album, it's called Fear of Music" and everything spins outward from that one moment. Jonathan Lethem treats Fear of Music (the third album by Talking Heads) as a masterpiece edgy, paranoid, funky, addictive, rhythmic, repetitive, spooky and fun. He