Talk Talk
Sign in to saveEnglish pop and post-rock group
Key facts
- Origin
- London , England
- Genres
- Post-rock art rock synth-pop (early) new wave (early)
- Years active
- 1981–1991
- Labels
- EMI Parlophone Polydor
- Spinoffs
- .O.rang
- Past members
- Mark Hollis Lee Harris Paul Webb Simon Brenner
via Wikipedia infobox
~14 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Talk Talk were an English post-rock and new wave band formed in 1981 by Mark Hollis (vocals, guitar, piano), Lee Harris (drums), Paul Webb (bass), and Simon Brenner (keyboards). Initially a synth-pop group, Talk Talk's first two albums, The Party's Over (1982) and It's My Life (1984), reached top 40 in the UK and produced the international hit singles "Talk Talk", "Today", "It's My Life", and "Such a Shame".
Talk Talk achieved widespread critical success in the UK and elsewhere in Europe with the album The Colour of Spring (1986) and its singles "Life's What You Make It" and "Living in Another World". 1988's Spirit of Eden moved the group towards a more experimental sound informed by jazz and improvisation, pioneering what became known as post-rock; it was critically acclaimed but commercially unsuccessful.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Talk Talk” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.