Talking Heads' Fear of Music

by Jonathan Lethem

It's the summer of 1979. A fifteen-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 "The 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 the Talking Heads, and the first produced by Brian Eno) as a masterpiece - edgy,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441121005
• ISBN13: 9781441121004
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.7" x 6.4"