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Remain in Love

By: Chris Frantz
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The Sunday Times best seller.

Chris Frantz's memoir tells the story of his life with Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club and his life-long love affair with Tina Weymouth. He remembers the early performances at CBGB alongside the Ramones, Patti Smith, Television and Blondie and recording the game changing albums, Talking Heads '77, More Songs About Buildings And Food, Fear Of Music, and Remain In Light. During a break from Talking Heads, Chris and Tina formed Tom Tom Club; in the process creating a hybrid of funk, disco, pop and electro that would have a huge impact on the club scene around the world.

Warm and candid, funny and heartfelt, Remain in Love charts the rise of a band that began as a dream and culminated with their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and reveals the once-in-a-lifetime love story and creative partnership between Chris and Tina, one of the greatest rhythm sections of all time.

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Critic Reviews

"As the Brits say: I'm gobsmacked. I devoured this book.... One of the most potent examples of living the dream." (Debbie Harry)

"A great drummer who has written a great book." (Bill Murray)

"A revealing inside account of the highs and lows of a band who looked and sounded like nobody else." (Olivia Laing, Guardian)
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I absolutely loved this book. I’ve loved Talking Heads since I was 15 in 1985. Stop Making Sense was the first album I ever bought and I love them still.
They’re always been an enigma and hearing first hand accounts from Chris Franz was engrossing. He has a great sense of humour. I was most happy to hear him provide a perspective about he and Tina’s contribution which was never explained and actively covered up. So glad I listened to this!

Long time TH fan and I loved this

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an interesting story overall but chris is often excessive with some details. At one point, he not only describes the outfits each Talking heads band member was wearing, but explains how he had received the yellow polo shirt David was wearing as a gift, but passed it on to David as yellow was not really his colour. Chris also recounts the entire set list of most shows, which sounds somewhat robotic in the audio recording. I was also a little disappointed to hear very little reference to Davids asperger's, which would seem to provide a fairly reasonable explanation (though not necessarily an excuse)for many of the behaviours Chris seems to be so hurt by in this book.

Too many unneeded details

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CF makes up for ordinary prose with a great story of lives well lived. A little insight into autism might help him and Tina forgive what appears from the outside to be utterly unacceptable behaviour on Byrne's part. But only in hindisght. Living with it day to day would be misery, and there was no wider understanding of it at the time. Fortunately they've always had each other, which is what makes their story, in the context of the life they lived, a great one.

Good story, not that well told

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If you’re a TH fan, this is an interesting book but generally it feels uneven. In parts you get extraordinarily detail but other times a quick run through. We get a full description of the TH tour with the Ramones which to be fair is interesting but the implosion of TH and his life beyond that point is rushed through. Discussion of his boat and a chance and very brief encounter with Patti Smith get more space than his dealing with his cocaine addiction.

Having said that, CF comes across as a nice guy and he’s got some great stories to tell. I did enjoy it but it’s not one of my favourites. It’s definitely his story and view of the world so it’s not always balanced and objective.

Interesting but far from perfect

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For anyone into music this is a must read book.
It shows the true nature of Talking Heads through history in a down to earth and in my view an un-biased way.

Excellent!

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I’m a big Talking Heads fan so I was keen to hear some of their story from a member of the band. Unfortunately this memoir had me rolling my eyes constantly as Chris Frantz presented his version of the Talking Heads story. The details he concentrates on are so self centred and he seems to be on a constant mission to pump up his contributions to the band’s catalogue. At one point he reads the entire lyrics to an early Talking Heads song like it’s the highest form of poetry and then goes out of his way to tell you that HE wrote the lyrics. So what dude? He recites every word he contributed to Psycho Killer, including the ones that didn’t end up being included in the song!
I had hoped to hear details on each Talking Heads recording session but these are glossed over quickly in a matter of moments. Meanwhile he covers the comparatively fluff music of The Tom Tom Club in mind numbingly excruciating detail and again recites the banal lyrics he is apparently very proud of.
Then there is the elephant in the room - David Byrne. Ok, I understand Byrne had his flaws as a collaborator, but Frantz uses every opportunity he can take to criticise Byrne, at one point whinging like a child that he only ever received one compliment from Byrne - oh boo hoo Chris!
Apart from the above there is some mildly interesting anecdotes but the balance between documenting the touring life and the recorded output of Talking Heads is way out of kilter. Too many tour stories, too many boring stories of all the drugs he took and way too little of the Talking Heads catalogue documented. And he’s a lousy narrator. I read somewhere Tina Weymouth is also writing a book, hopefully it’s an improvement on this self indulgent memoir.

A bit of a letdown

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