PSYCHO KILLER, Talking Heads 1977

WEEK THREE SONIC COMPOSITIONS

Psycho Killer" is a song by the American band Talking Heads, released on their 1977 debut album Talking Heads: 77. The group first performed it as the Artistics in 1974.In the liner notes for Once in a Lifetime: The Best of Talking Heads (1992), Jerry Harrison wrote of the b-side of the single, an acoustic version of the song that featured Arthur Russell on cello, "I'm glad we persuaded Tony and Lance that the version with the cellos shouldn't be the only one."


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