David Byrne Explains Why He Thinks Reuniting the Talking Heads Would Be a 'Fool's Errand': 'I Don't Think So' Rachel DeSantisAugust 20, 2025 at 3:02 AM Gijsbert Hanekroot/Redferns Talking Heads posed in Amsterdam, Netherlands in June 1977. LR Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth, David Byrne, Jerry Harrison.
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Rachel DeSantisAugust 20, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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Talking Heads posed in Amsterdam, Netherlands in June 1977. L-R Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth, David Byrne, Jerry Harrison. -
Former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne said trying to recapture the magic of the band is a "fool's errand"
The Talking Heads broke up in the early 1990s after eight albums together
The rocker is releasing a new solo album on Sept. 5
Seeing the Talking Heads on tour in their heyday was a once-in-a-lifetime chance — as the band will likely never share the stage or a recording studio again, according to frontman David Byrne.
Byrne, 73, opened up about his feelings on a possible Talking Heads reunion in an interview with The Times, explaining that they'd once captured lightning in a bottle, and it would be a tall order to do so again.
"We were on TV together and people went, 'Well, they all seem to be getting along,'" Byrne recalled of the band's select few joint press appearances in 2023. "But no, I don't think so. On a practical level, trying to recreate the feeling that people had when they were in their early 20s? The time that they first heard that music? That's a fool's errand. And besides, I'm really enjoying what I'm doing."
The singer-songwriter — who is set to release his new solo album Who Is the Sky? on Sept. 5 — cofounded the seminal new wave band in the early 1970s with drummer Chris Frantz, and later bassist Tina Weymouth (who is married to Frantz) and keyboardist and guitarist Jerry Harrison.
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David Byrne performs on Friday, February 14, 2025 at the SNL50 concert.
The group rose to fame on the back of hits like "Psycho Killer," and on Byrne's electrifyingly eccentric stage presence. After eight albums together, they were finished with new music by 1988, and Frantz told the Los Angeles Times in 1992 that Byrne had "just decided to leave" without discussion, leaving the other group members shocked and upset.
In the years since, Byrne has played with his former bandmates just once, at the group's 2002 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction. In 2023, they made a few joint appearances together to promote A24's re-release of their 1984 concert film Stop Making Sense.
In a new interview with Rolling Stone, Byrne described that time as being "OK."
"We were all very proud of that show and the film that Jonathan Demme did. We're thrilled that audiences still wanted to see it. So we put aside whatever differences we have. I said, 'OK, we're not going to go there, but we're going to help promote this thing,'" he said. "We felt more comfortable with one another, but.... I didn't feel like, 'Oh yeah, let's go out on tour again.' Or, 'Let's make another record.' Musically, I've gone to a very different place. And I also felt like there's been a fair number of reunion records and tours. And some of them were probably pretty good. Not very many."
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Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth, David Byrne and Jerry Harrison of Talking Heads attend Stop Making Sense Q & A hosted by BAM and A24 at BAM Harvey Theater on September 13, 2023 in Brooklyn Borough of New York City, New York.
The "Burning Down the House" singer acknowledged that he "totally understand[s]" fans' desire for some sort of reunion, be it a tour or new music, but "you can't turn the clock back. When you hear music at a certain point in your life, it means a lot. But it doesn't mean you can go back there and make it happen again."
Byrne opened up to PEOPLE in 2023 about the Talking Heads' acrimonious split, admitting that he "was not as pleasant to be around" when he was younger, and was something of a "little tyrant" when it came to working on Talking Heads shows.
"I think [the end] wasn't handled well. It was kind of ugly," he said. "I have regrets on how that was handled. I don't think I did it in the best way, but I think it was kind of inevitable that would happen anyway. We have a cordial relationship now. We're sort of in touch, but we don't hang out together."
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