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Marc Myers
Jul 11, 2020
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Last week in
The Wall Street Journal, I interviewed all four former members of Talking Heads for my "Anatomy of a Song" column on the group's big 1983 hit, Burning Down the House (go here). David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth and Jerry Harrison talked about how the song came together and the initial inspiration, Parliament-Funkadelic.

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