Talking Heads Reportedly Turned Down $80 Million to Reunite

Talking Heads won’t be reuniting, however that hasn’t stopped promoters from attempting to get the band again collectively.

According to Billboard, live performance large Live Nation “told the Talking Heads it was willing to pay the band $80 million to headline six to eight festival gigs and headlining slots.”

That provide got here on the heels of an analogous try by Goldenvoice president Paul Tollett, who wished to get the legendary group to reunite at Coachella. Billboard claims the band may have earned “as much as $10 million” for the two-weekend pageant.

Ultimately, Talking Heads turned down each the Live Nation and Coachella affords.

Talking Heads Appeared Together for the First Time in Over 20 Years

Talking Heads – made up of David Byrne, Tina Weymouth, Jerry Harrison and Chris Frantz – final carried out collectively when the band was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2002. You have to return even additional, all the way in which to 1984, to discover the final time they performed a full live performance collectively.

Still, followers had been hopeful that the estranged bandmates might have mended their fences. In 2023, all 4 members appeared collectively publicly for the primary time in 21 years as they celebrated the Fortieth-anniversary of Stop Making Sense with a screening on the Toronto International Film Festival.

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“We have a cordial relationship now,” Byrne famous prior to look. “We’re sort of in touch, but we don’t hang out together.”

The singer additionally admitted he had “regrets” about how Talking Heads ended – he reportedly simply left the group with out even discussing it with the remainder of the band.

“I don’t think I did it in the best way,” Byrne confessed, “but I think it was kind of inevitable that would happen anyway.”