Among the best issues concerning the music of Speaking Heads is that they continue to be a band with a sound that is actually their very own.
Final Traditional Rock Nights has your likelihood to listen to the way it all started with the New York group’s debut album, Speaking Heads: ’77. One fortunate winner will rating a duplicate of the tremendous deluxe field set from Rhino Leisure. The expanded version of the traditional album, which arrived in Sept. 1977, incorporates a full disc of extra outtakes and rarities, plus a recording of their remaining efficiency at CBGB’s lower than a month after the file was launched.
That includes over three hours of fabric, the set additionally features a stunning 80-page hardcover guide with new liner notes from Tina Weymouth, David Byrne, Chris Frantz & Jerry Harrison. Their recollections are bolstered by uncommon and unreleased photographs of the band and ephemera from the period.
This restricted version field set additionally incorporates reproductions (with image sleeves) of the 4 Sire Data 7”s from Speaking Heads: 77 together with “Love → Constructing on Hearth / New Feeling”, “Uh-Oh, Love Comes To City / I Want You Didn’t Say That,” “Psycho Killer / Psycho Killer (Acoustic)” and “Pulled Up / Don’t Fear About The Authorities.”
In your likelihood to be our grand prize winner, merely enter your identify, electronic mail and cellphone quantity into the entry type on the prime of this web page. You’ll be added to UCR’s each day e-newsletter mailing listing. Extra followers shall be chosen to obtain different Speaking Heads swag. The competition ends Sept. 22, 2025 at 11:59pm EST.
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