Name: The German Broadcast 1984
Brand: Talk Talk

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2023-03-24

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Talk Talk

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New Wave / Post Punk

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British synth pop / art rock band founded in 1981 in London and disbanded in 1991. They had a string of international hit singles including "It's My Life", "Such a Shame", "Life's What You Make It", "Dum Dum Girl" and "Talk Talk".
Talk Talk moved away from synth-pop to a more experimental form with the album The Colour of Spring in 1986, and their critical reputation increased. Their final two albums, Spirit of Eden (1988) and Laughing Stock (1991), are highly acclaimed and remain influential to experimental alternative rock genres.
With Simon Brenner out, Tim Friese-Greene was recruited to assist with the recording of their second album It's My Life (1984) and he soon became the band's producer and de facto fourth member. He played keyboards and became Hollis' frequent songwriting partner, co-writing all the songs on The Colour of Spring (1986), Spirit of Eden (1988) and Laughing Stock (1991). Although a major contributor to the band's studio output, Friese-Greene did not regularly play with the touring band, and was absent from the band's publicity material.

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Released in February 1984, Talk Talk's second album, It's My Life, marked the end of the group's first phase, when creating pop hits was still on the agenda. Soon to move into the art-pop territory of The Colour of Spring, before staging a complete reinvention on the inscrutable masterpiece Spirit of Eden, the band still had one foot in the synth-pop world when they made an appearance on Germany TV show RockPop In Concert on 21 November, 1984.

Opening with their early manifesto - and the song which gave the group their name - Talk Talk, frontman Mark Hollis led the band through much of the It's My Life album, including an urgent "Such A Shame", the album's soaring title track, and an evocative, cinematic set closer in the shape of "Renee".

Two years later, Talk Talk would head down the irreversible path towards shaking off the last vestiges of their early pop-inclined incarnation, making this broadcast recording an essential document of their crucial first era.

The German Broadcast 1984

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