Talking Heads’ Jerry Harrison says ‘Stop Making Sense’ re-release was a “healing experience” for the band

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Talking Heads has said that the re-release of their film Stop Making Sense acted as somewhat of a “healing experience” for the band.The musician reflected on the 1983, Jonathan Demme-directed concert film in a new interview on the Kyle Meredith With… podcast, and explained how re-releasing the film has helped the members grow closer.The band are reissuing the film to celebrate 40 years since it was first released, and the moment also will see members Harrison, David Byrne, Tina Weymouth, and Chris Frantz come together for their first public reunion in over two decades.According to Harrison, although the band underwent a tumultuous break-up, revisiting the film – which has been restored to 4K and distributed by A24 – has helped the members settle their differences, and played a significant role in bringing them back together.“We own the film together, [so we had] to work together to make a decision,” he told the host. “‘Is A24 the right distributor for us, the right partner for us?’ We had to have conversations about that, and this is something we did together.

Then A24 is going like: ‘Here’s the offer — we’re going to get really behind this, if you help us.’ And so it was like, ‘obviously, we need to work together to make this a success.’”He continued, sharing that, luckily for fans, reuniting helped put aside any bad blood between them and made them realise that they could move on from past conflicts.“I think it’s been somewhat of a healing experience for everybody,” Harrison continued. “It’s like, ‘Yeah, we actually can work together and do this.’ And this is something we’re all proud of.“The conflicts that people have spent a lot of time talking about, they still can be looked up.