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Talking Heads 50th Anniversary New York Moment
Talking Heads
United States
2026
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Entrant Company
Rhino Entertainment
Launch Country
United States
Program
Clio Music 2026
Medium Type
‌Music Marketing
Medium
Integrated Campaign
Category
‌Other
Fifty years after forming and breaking out of New York's Bowery scene, Talking Heads remain uniquely singular. To celebrate the anniversary of their first show at CBGBs, Rhino Entertainment partnered with us to execute a campaign that embodied the band's punk-adjacent, IYKYK ethos in and around the Bowery, Lower East Side, and the greater Manhattan. Using guerrilla street marketing, buskers, radio, billboards, flyers, and more, refrains from Talking Heads' iconic hit "Psycho Killer" slowly took over New York. Buskers along the F-train performed "Psycho Killer" (off the band's debut record, Talking Heads '77). NYU radio hosted a takeover day where they played Talking Heads music and repeated "Fa Fa Fa" (the refrain from "Psycho Killer") for 24 hours. We plastered key neighborhoods with stickers, billboards, and flyers in the iconic debut album's recognizable red and green pantones and font and created one-of-a-kind t-shirts for Chinatown retailers. Fa Fa Fa flashed on a Times Square Billboard. We flew an aerial banner that just said "Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa fa Fa" in the Talking Heads '77 colors and font over Coney Island, and capped the campaign with the world premiere of the first-ever official music video for "Psycho Killer" at 195 Chrystie Street, the very building where David Byrne, Chris Frantz, and Tina Weymouth lived when they were first launching the band.
Credits
Music Company
Rhino Entertainment
Los Angeles, CA
Advertising Agency
De-Yan
New York
SVP Creative Marketing
Alicia Yaffe
Warner Music Global Catalog
SVP, Creative Services
Christine Bilich
Warner Chappell Music
Vice President
Jeremy Sponder
Rhino Entertainment
Senior Director, Digital Marketing
Lisa Lum
Rhino Entertainment
Vice President, Communications
Lauren Papapietro
Rhino Entertainment
Senior Coordinator, Media Relations
Miranda Alston
Rhino Entertainment
VP, Global Digital Commerce
Eric Franklin
Rhino Entertainment
Administrative Assistant
Kaylee Reyes
Rhino Entertainment
Managing Director
Aleena Bissett
Warner Chappell Music
Chief Creative Officer
Jason Kreher
De-Yan
Vice President of Innovation
Steven Martell
De-Yan
Creative Director
Ellery Pierce
De-Yan
Senior Producer
Mitch Ritter
De-Yan
Senior Producer
Noah Edelstein
De-Yan
Creative Director
Matt Moore
De-Yan
Video Producer
Grant Thorshov
De-Yan
Video Producer
Chase Doyle
De-Yan
Graphic Designer
Kristina Miljacki
De-Yan
Graphic Designer
Nina Batinica
De-Yan
Graphic Designer
Peter Micic
De-Yan
Graphic Designer
Lauren Luo
De-Yan
Graphic Designer
Heerim Shin
De-Yan
Architect
Jintong Mao
De-Yan
Creative Services Manager
Holly Lemanowicz
De-Yan
Creative Services Manager
Pavle Popov
De-Yan
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