Talking Heads drummer says David Byrne shouted: “You should be calling me an asshole” when band split
nme.comTalking Heads drummer Chris Frantz has revealed what happened when the band finally split in 1991.Speaking in his new biopic Remain In Love, the sticksman documented the band’s final meeting and said frontman David Byrne was so exasperated that the other members kept their cool when he announced their split, that he yelled: “You should be calling me an asshole.”It’s believed that Byrne had been telling the other members for years that he wanted the band to break up, but they ignored him for their own purposes.“We had heard this before, so we thought, ‘If we keep our cool, this will blow over and we’ll get to do another Talking Heads record’,” Frantz told The Guardian.Despite their plan, the band never made another album and have only played.
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