| "I Zimbra" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 UK vinyl single | ||||
| Single by Talking Heads | ||||
| from the album Fear of Music | ||||
| B-side | "Air" (3:33) | |||
| Released | 1980 | |||
| Recorded | 1979 | |||
| Genre | ||||
| Length | 3:06 | |||
| Label | Sire | |||
| Songwriter(s) | ||||
| Producer(s) | Brian Eno | |||
| Talking Heads singles chronology | ||||
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| Official audio | ||||
| "I Zimbra" (2005 Remaster) on YouTube | ||||
"I Zimbra" is a song by American new wave band Talking Heads, released as the second single from their 1979 album Fear of Music.
According to Sytze Steenstra in Song and Circumstance: The Work of David Byrne from Talking Heads to the Present, the music draws heavily on the African popular music Byrne was listening to at the time.[3]
- ^ Molanphy, Chris (October 14, 2023). "This Ain't No Party?! Edition". Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia (Podcast). Slate. Retrieved November 10, 2023.
- ^ Reynolds, Simon (January 1, 2005). "Prologue: The Unfinished Revolution". Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984. Faber & Faber. p. xviii. ISBN 0-571-21570-X.
- ^ Steenstra, Sytze (2010). Song and Circumstance: The Work of David Byrne from Talking Heads to the Present. New York: Continuum. p. 53. ISBN 978-0-8264-4559-9.