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Talking Heads Scorned $80M Offer to Start Touring Again

Same as it ever was.

The legendary rock band recently turned their noses up at an $80 million offer from Live Nation to reunite and embark on a reunion tour, Billboard reported Monday. The company’s executives must have smelled paydirt after David Byrne mended a rift with his former bandmates Jerry Harrison, Chris Frantz, and Tina Weymouth in time for the 40th anniversary of Stop Making Sense, because Live Nation reportedly approached the group with a fat paycheck to play six to eight festival gigs and headlining slots. They also appeared uninterested in the prospect of performing at Coachella, whose curator, Paul Tollett, told Billboard that he went to Toronto to vibecheck a potential Talking Heads set last September.

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