{"id":30362,"date":"2024-09-16T18:04:16","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T18:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-sept-16-1977-talking-heads-released-their-debut-album\/"},"modified":"2024-09-16T18:04:16","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T18:04:16","slug":"on-this-day-sept-16-1977-talking-heads-released-their-debut-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-sept-16-1977-talking-heads-released-their-debut-album\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, Sept. 16, 1977: Talking Heads released their debut album"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-09-16\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, Sept. 16, 1977 &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Talking Heads<\/strong> released their debut album, <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Talking Heads: 77<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, featuring the now-classic \u201cPsycho Killer,\u201d as well as \u201cUh-Oh,&#8221; &#8220;Love Comes to Town\u201d and \u201cDon\u2019t Worry About the Government.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Jon Bon Jovi<\/strong>\u2019s cousin\u00a0<strong>Tony Bongiovi<\/strong>\u00a0was credited as one of the album\u2019s producers, though the band disliked him and later claimed the engineer, <strong>Ed Stasium<\/strong>, did most of the work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">While it never got higher than #97 on the <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Billboard<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> 200 Album chart, <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Rolling Stone<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> included it on its list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time in 2003.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Talking Heads went on to release seven more studio albums, their last being 1988\u2019s <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Naked<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">. They also released the soundtrack to their critically acclaimed documentary <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Stop Making Sense<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, which spent 119 weeks on the <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Billboard<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> 200.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, Sept. 16, 1977 &#8230; Talking Heads released their debut album, Talking Heads: 77, featuring the now-classic \u201cPsycho Killer,\u201d as well as \u201cUh-Oh,&#8221; &#8220;Love Comes to Town\u201d and \u201cDon\u2019t Worry About the Government.\u201d Jon Bon Jovi\u2019s cousin\u00a0Tony Bongiovi\u00a0was credited as one of the album\u2019s producers, though the band<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-sept-16-1977-talking-heads-released-their-debut-album\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30362"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}