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Then they asked a young Bahamian, Monte Brown, to play guitar on "Wordy Rappinghood" and "Genius of Love." In the studio next door, Chris Blackwell was producing Grace Jones making her classic Nightclubbing album that featured an array of great musicians.
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First they laid down the basic tracks of drums, bass, keyboards and guitar. When legendary reggae producer Lee "Scratch" Perry failed to show up for the scheduled recording sessions, Blackwell allowed Chris and Tina to produce the album themselves with Jamaican engineer Steven Stanley, just 23, at the controls. In March 1981 they flew down to Compass Point Studios, Bahamas, to record. So they signed with Island Records, then owned by industry legend Chris Blackwell, one of the first people to fully appreciate the value of a great rhythm section in and of itself. It was in early 1981, after five years of touring internationally and four studio albums they wrote and recorded with Talking Heads- Talking Heads: 77 (1977) More Songs About Buildings And Food (1978) Fear Of Music (1979) and Remain In Light (1980)-that Chris and Tina were encouraged by Jerry and David, who had each left the group to make solo albums, to do likewise. In 1977 they were joined by Jerry Harrison (of the original Modern Lovers) from Boston. In November of 1976 they signed to Sire Records and released their first singles. Chris played drums, Tina played bass and David sang and played guitar. Graduates from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1974, they moved to New York City where they founded Talking Heads as a trio with David Byrne in 1975. The Tom Tom Club was created by Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth in 1981.