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The album title, a term for decompression sickness, references Radiohead's rapid rise to fame with "Creep"; Yorke said "we just came up too fast". [57] John Leckie , who produced The Bends , recalled that EMI hoped for a single "even better" than "Creep" but that Radiohead "didn't even know what was good about it in the first place". [ 58 ]
The album title, a term for decompression sickness, references Radiohead's rapid rise to fame; Yorke said "we just came up too fast". [37] While touring for their 1997 album OK Computer , Yorke became hostile when "Creep" was mentioned in interviews and refused requests to play it. [ 74 ]
It was the fifth Radiohead album nominated for the Mercury Prize, making Radiohead the most shortlisted act in Mercury history, [202] and was nominated for Best Alternative Music Album and Best Rock Song (for "Burn the Witch") at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards. [203] It appeared on several publications' lists of the best albums of the year.
The art of Radiohead singer Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood, the artist behind the band’s album covers, will be featured together for the first time in a public exhibition.
Oxfordshire teenagers Colin and Jonny Greenwood, Ed O’Brien, Philip Selway, and Thom Yorke called themselves On a Friday when they first formed a band in 1985. Signing to EMI in the early ‘90s ...
[1] [2] Their debut single, "Creep", remains their most successful, entering the top 10 in several countries. Their second album, The Bends, released in March 1995, reached number four in the UK and is certified triple platinum. [1] Radiohead's third album, OK Computer, was released in May 1997. It remains their most successful album, reaching ...
Recording Radiohead's second album, The Bends (1995), was stressful, as they felt pressured to release a follow-up to "Creep". [44] Yorke in particular struggled. According to the band's co-manager, Chris Hufford, "Thom became totally confused about what he wanted to do, what he was doing in a band and in his life, and that turned into a ...
OK Computer is the third studio album by the English rock band Radiohead, released on 21 May 1997.With their producer, Nigel Godrich, Radiohead recorded most of OK Computer in their rehearsal space in Oxfordshire and the historic mansion of St Catherine's Court in Bath in 1996 and early 1997.