Editing Adrian Belew (section)

===Talking Heads, GaGa and the Tom Tom Club (1979–1982)===

In 1980, Belew formed a new band, GaGa, for which he served as the singer, guitarist, drummer, and primary songwriter. By now a frequent visitor to New York City, Belew had also befriended the New York-based [[New wave music|new wave]] band [[Talking Heads]]. After being invited to join the band onstage for a performance of "[[Psycho Killer]]", he became an occasional guest performer at their concerts. Around this time, Belew also met [[King Crimson]] guitarist [[Robert Fripp]] at a [[Steve Reich]] concert. In July of that year, GaGa was invited to open several New York City-area concerts for Fripp's band [[League of Gentlemen (band)|the League of Gentlemen]].<ref>Janssen, Bill (October 31, 1977). [http://www.illinoistimes.com/Springfield/article-4540-no-regrets.html "No regrets – the enduring spirit of Springfield's Tonguesnatcher Revue"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120226191335/http://www.illinoistimes.com/Springfield/article-4540-no-regrets.html |date=February 26, 2012 }}. ''[[Illinois Times]]''. Retrieved June 12, 2013.</ref>

Talking Heads and Brian Eno subsequently hired Belew to add guitar solos to several tracks on their 1980 album ''[[Remain in Light]]''. He then joined an expanded nine-piece Talking Heads live band which toured in 1980 and 1981. These concerts were documented on the second disc of the band's 1982 live double album ''[[The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads]]''. Belew also played on Talking Heads member [[Jerry Harrison]]'s solo album ''[[The Red and the Black (album)|The Red and the Black]]'' and frontman [[David Byrne (musician)|David Byrne]]'s ''[[The Catherine Wheel (album)|The Catherine Wheel]]''.

At this time, the internal relationships in Talking Heads were becoming strained. The band's rhythm section, [[Tina Weymouth]] and [[Chris Frantz]], allegedly approached Belew with the suggestion that he should replace Byrne as the band's frontman, an offer which Belew immediately but politely turned down.<ref name="Century' 2002">''Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa: The Adventures of Talking Heads in the 20th Century'' by David Bowman ([[Bloomsbury Publishing plc]], August 19, 2002)</ref> (In his book ''Remain in Love'', Frantz denied that this offer was ever made.{{citation needed|date=October 2022}}) Belew did, however, go on to work with Weymouth and Frantz in [[Tom Tom Club]]. Joining them for recordings at [[Compass Point Studios]] in [[Nassau, Bahamas|Nassau]], Bahamas, Belew played guitar on the sessions for the band's [[Tom Tom Club (album)|self-titled debut album]], including the hit single "[[Genius of Love]]". However, recording engineer [[Steven Stanley]] erased the majority of Belew's solos during the mixing sessions, and Weymouth stopped talking to Belew after he asked to receive songwriting credits on the album. Belew did not play live with Tom Tom Club or contribute to any further recordings, and instead focused on other projects.<ref name="Century' 2002" />