Heaven (Talking Heads song)

"Heaven" is a song by the American New Wave band Talking Heads from their 1979 album Fear of Music.

Cover versions

• k.d. lang recorded her version of this song with The Siss Boom Bang for their 2011 album Sing It Loud
• The song was covered by Q Lazzarus and used in the soundtrack of the Jonathan Demme film Philadelphia. Demme previously directed the Talking Heads' concert film Stop Making Sense, also featuring this song.
• The song was covered by Icehouse frontman Iva Davies.

• The song is frequently played by Widespread Panic during live shows.^[1]
• The song is covered live by White Lies
• Voxtrot does a cover of this song.^[2]
• The song appears on Simply Red's 1985 debut album Picture Book.
• Greg Keelor covered this song on his first solo album, Gone.
• Alkaline Trio covered the song on the pre-production demos to their Good Mourning album.
• The band Duels covered this song as a 'Little Monster'.
• In 2004, Eric Burdon played a jazzy version of the song for his album My Secret Life. It was also featured on his live album Athens Traffic Live (2005).
• In 2008, the band Bell X1 covered the song at a session with Paste magazine.
• On the soundtrack to the 2009 film My Sister's Keeper, Jimmy Scott plays a stripped down version of the song.
• German musician Joachim Witt released a cover version with German lyrics called "Der Weg in die Ferne (Heaven)" on his album Silberblick in 1980.

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