Chris Frantz

Chris Frantz

Birthday: 1951-05-08

Place of Birth: Fort Campbell, Kentucky, USA

Biography: Charton Christopher Frantz is an American musician, producer and author. Born in Fort Campbell, Kentucky, Frantz attended the Rhode Island School of Design in the early 1970s, where he met musicians David Byrne and Tina Weymouth. Byrne and Frantz formed a band called the Artistics, which eventually transformed into the acclaimed new wave band Talking Heads. Weymouth, then Frantz's girlfriend, joined the band in 1975, and the two married in 1977. In 1981, Frantz and Weymouth formed Tom Tom Club, who achieved chart success with the influential single Genius of Love. Frantz was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Talking Heads in 2002. Frantz's memoir, Remain in Love, was published in 2020.

Movies

Stop Making Sense
Stop Making Sense

A concert film documenting Talking Heads at the height of their popularity, on tour for their 1983 a...

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Talking Heads: Rock Pop in Concert
Talking Heads: Rock Pop in Concert

Adrian Belew augments the band on this 50-minute performance from the Westfalenhalle, in Dortmund, G...

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I Need That Record!
I Need That Record!

Guerilla filmmaker Brendan Toller unleashes I NEED THAT RECORD! THE DEATH (OR POSSIBLE SURVIVAL) OF ...

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Finster
Finster

Howard Finster, the grandfather of the Southern Folk Art movement was a pioneer that showed the worl...

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Talking Heads: The Name of this Programme is Once In A Lifetime
Talking Heads: The Name of this Programme is Once In A Lifetime

In 1984, David Byrne put together a TV special on the Talking Heads for U.K. TV’s Channel 4, a 68-mi...

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Talking Heads: Storytelling Giant
Talking Heads: Storytelling Giant

A compilation of ten music videos produced by Talking Heads during the 1980s. The videos are linked ...

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Talking Heads: Live at Montreux Jazz Festival
Talking Heads: Live at Montreux Jazz Festival

Talking Heads perform at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland on July 9, 1982. Originally broad...

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Talking Heads: Live in Rome
Talking Heads: Live in Rome

On December 18, 1980, the American rock band Talking Heads, with guest guitarist Adrian Belew, deliv...

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Paradise Garden: Howard Finster's Legacy
Paradise Garden: Howard Finster's Legacy

Howard Finster, the grandfather of the Southern Folk Art movement, was a pioneer that showed the wor...

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Talking Heads: Capitol Theatre
Talking Heads: Capitol Theatre

Rare concert footage of Talking Heads performing their legendary Remain in Light set at Passiac, New...

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25 Years of Punk
25 Years of Punk

Lou Reed narrates this Television special that takes a look back at the beginnings of the punk rock ...

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Talking Heads - Chronology
Talking Heads - Chronology

Chronology pulls together live performances from across Talking Heads' career. It starts with their ...

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The Blank Generation
The Blank Generation

The cream of the New York new wave/punk crop, filmed live at CBGB when the scene was just beginning....

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Dancing Barefoot
Dancing Barefoot

In this 1995 made-for television biopic, see legendary musician and filmmaker Ivan Kral as he made m...

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True Stories
True Stories

A small but growing Texas town, filled with strange and musical characters, celebrates its sesquicen...

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Never Mind the Sex Pistols, Here's the Bollocks
Never Mind the Sex Pistols, Here's the Bollocks

Documentary of the emerging punk rock music scene in Los Angeles in 1977-1978....

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The Greatest Radio Station In The World
The Greatest Radio Station In The World

A fun-filled documentary that tells the unique 60-year history of WPKN in Bridgeport, CT, through in...

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Heaven Stood Still: The Incarnations of Willy DeVille
Heaven Stood Still: The Incarnations of Willy DeVille

The life and times of the most original American singer/ songwriter of the last 50 years....

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