![]() Walker stated, "I think he got everything there is to get out of me." Content I was listening to Whitney Houston's version of I Will Always Love You - man, I want to write something like that." ĭuring an interview with Billboard, Walker mentioned that producer Doug Johnson was crucial for the performance. In an interview with The Virginian-Pilot, Walker stated that Once in a Lifetime Love was one of his favorite songs and said, "It's probably the best vocal performance I've ever given. It peaked at number 50 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks becoming his lowest charting single of his career as well as his first to miss the top forty. It was released on as the fourth and final single to his album Live, Laugh, Love. Greene who co-wrote the single with and was recorded by American country music singer Clay Walker. "' Once in a Lifetime Love" is a song written by Jason M. To order a copy go to .2000 single by Clay Walker "Once in a Lifetime Love" Remain in Love: Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Tina by Chris Frantz is published by White Rabbit (£20). That Frantz remained star-struck is one of his many winning qualities, and I commend Remain in Love to discerning rock fans everywhere.Īndrew Martin’s latest novel is The Winker There is Mick Jagger, alone and high in a New York jazz club, wearing “a huge, quilted pimp-style newsboy cap” and bawling along to Killing Me Softly by Roberta Flack (which was on the jukebox) but with his own lubricious adaptation of the lyrics. A surprisingly solicitous Sid Vicious inspects Weymouth’s bleeding hands after a gig: “But Tina, have you ever tried using a plectrum?” Patti Smith “chewed gum a mile a minute, like a schoolyard speed freak”. There are many exquisite character portraits. The place smelt of “beer, roach spray, dog doo and Chanel No 5”. ![]() One spring afternoon, Frantz walked over to the now- legendary club CBGB to ask for a gig. While searching for a loft to live in, they viewed one building that was on fire. The mysterious Mr Byrne always brings this out, and it’s strongly present in Frantz’s account of the early days, when the Heads lived in the pre-gentrified Lower East Side of New York, an almost literal war zone. He seems to record a “dream come true” about every 10th page, but I prefer his minor key. In 1991, Byrne “sneaked out of Talking Heads” and that was it, but what a ride Frantz enjoyed. Byrne was silent about the worldwide success of Frantz and Weymouth’s very funky spin-off group, Tom Tom Club, except to ask, of one track that he happened to overhear: “How did you get that handclap sound?” Frantz thought him “strangely elated” after being arrested for jaywalking in Los Angeles. Then again, he seemed to like it when things went wrong. Frantz alleges that Byrne was generally slow to recognise the contributions of his bandmates (he “couldn’t acknowledge where he stopped and other people began”) and that “the more successful Talking Heads became, the more cold and dyspeptic David became”. He got into music to get out of himself.”īut apparently not too far out of himself. He was also very willing to make an unexpected move, both musically and physically. Then he did it again.” But Frantz loved playing music with him. “David was painfully gauche that night… At one point, he lined up a row of peas on his knife and let them roll into his mouth. Frantz took Byrne to dinner with his parents. When Frantz first suggested they form a band, Byrne said “I guess so” without looking Frantz in the eye. Soon after, Frantz wrote the lyrics to the superbly ominous Warning Sign, which would appear on the group’s second album, initially credited to Byrne alone: “It appears that he had forgotten that I wrote those words…” On later pressings, Frantz was credited, but the gaunt, evasive Byrne seems to have cast a perpetual shadow on the otherwise sunny world of Frantz.Ĭhris Frantz, left, with Tom Tom Club in 1990. Frantz, Weymouth and Byrne wrote a song, Psycho Killer, which, in 1977, would become the group’s first hit. He “had a full Rasputin beard, cut his hair very short by himself, wore secondhand clothes and rarely spoke to anyone”. He saw her going past on an old yellow bike “as in a Truffaut movie”. They both had hunchbacks.”įrantz met Weymouth on “a perfect New England day” at the Rhode Island School of Design. ![]() “My mother enrolled me in the Peter Pan nursery school run by two very kind sisters who both answered to the name Miss Walters. ![]() When he told his mother he liked Elvis, she said: “Oh Chris! He’s so common!” After a false start with a trumpet, Frantz joined the drum section of the school band – “Boy, was I happy!” But it’s not all blitheness, and there are macabre, David Lynch-ian moments. In easy-going prose, he evokes a privileged Wasp childhood. Frantz was born in Kentucky, the son of an army lawyer who rose to be a general.
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