Speaking Heads have appeared on the US recreation present Jeopardy!, and offered questions in their very own class.
The episode of the long-running recreation present sequence aired final night time (October 15), and noticed the long-lasting band seem in a part of the episode to current questions in a particular Speaking Heads class.
Within the clip, shared by each the sequence and the band on social media, the four-piece are seen introducing themselves, earlier than presenting the contestants with questions on their discography and their live performance movie Cease Making Sense.
It comes because the band just lately celebrated 40 years of their live performance movie by sharing a re-release through A24. This was adopted by a tribute album that arrived in Might, and noticed artists like The Nationwide, Miley Cyrus, Paramore and extra ship their very own covers of the band’s most well-known tracks.
“Amongst different issues, we’re the celebs of Cease Making Sense,” David Bryne stated firstly of the clip, with Chris Frantz including: “Acclaimed as the best live performance movie of all time”.
“Now that it’s getting a Fortieth-anniversary re-release,” Tina Weymouth continued, with Jerry Harrison saying: “We’ll have clues concerning the film and our music.”
Within the phase, the members are seen asking questions on their greatest hits – together with ‘Psycho Killer’ and ‘Burning Down The Home’ – in addition to extra normal questions on who directed the Cease Making Sense movie and which iconic New York membership noticed them play their first present.
In addition to Cease Making Sense coming again into cinemas earlier this yr and the remastered 4K model of the 1984 film being shared, the long-lasting band additionally reunited at a particular screening as a part of the 2023 Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition.
Since then, the members have opened up concerning the movie’s creation in an interview on The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon in June, saying that they didn’t need it to be “too Spinal Faucet“.
At one level within the interview, Speaking Heads have been requested whether or not they had approached director Jonathan Demme with any “notes” on how he ought to seize their efficiency on display.
“Do you all go like, ‘Hey, right here’s what we positively don’t wish to do’?” Fallon stated. Weymouth responded: “Yeah. We did that.”
The bassist continued: “We stated, ‘We don’t need all of the gimmicks’. We wished the cameras to be like a delicate eye; the way in which an viewers member can be seeing it, with out the digital camera getting in the way in which and taking part in round.”
She went on to say that the group wished “no break up display” and “no interviews” to be featured. “That might be too Spinal Faucet,” Weymouth added, referring to the basic comedy rock mockumentary – which was launched the identical yr as Cease Making Sense.
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