Close to 34 years since their split, the chances of a Talking Heads remain as distant as ever, with frontman David Byrne asserting such an event will never happen.

Byrne’s comments were shared in a recent interview with Rolling Stone in anticipation of his Who is the Sky? album, which arrives just days before the launch of a global tour in September.

According to Byrne, the forthcoming live dates will likely see him “mix and match” some older Talking Heads material into the set, though he’s aware that doing so is a “real trap.”

“If you do too much of the older material, you become a legacy act that comes out and plays the old hits,” he explains. “You cash in really quick, but then you’ve dug yourself a hole.”

Byrne’s new album is his first since 2018, and in the ensuing years, there ha

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