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The Music and Art of Radiohead is a collection of academic essays on the band Radiohead edited by Joseph Tate. [1] It was published in May 2005 by Ashgate Publishing in their Popular and Folk Music Series (ISBN 0-7546-3979-7). It's one of "only a handful of academic studies" devoted to the band's work. [2]
The Bends was the first Radiohead album with artwork by Stanley Donwood, who has worked with Yorke to create all of Radiohead's artwork since. [44] Donwood met Yorke while they were students at the University of Exeter , and previously created artwork for the My Iron Lung EP. [ 44 ]
Abingdon School, where Radiohead formed. The members of Radiohead met while attending Abingdon School, a private school for boys in Abingdon, Oxfordshire. [2] The guitarist and singer Thom Yorke and the bassist Colin Greenwood were in the same year; the guitarist Ed O'Brien was one year above, and the drummer Philip Selway was in the year above O'Brien. [3]
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.
Dublin's River Liffey (pictured in 2007) was one of the sources of inspiration for the song. [2]One of the earliest songs written for Kid A (2000), [3] "How to Disappear Completely" was written primarily by the Radiohead singer, Thom Yorke, [4] [5] [c] during the tour for their third album, OK Computer (1997).
Yorke recorded his vocals in California in 1997 while on tour with his band Radiohead. [2] It was written by Yorke and the Unkle member Josh Davis (also known as DJ Shadow), whose 1996 album Endtroducing influenced Radiohead's 1997 album OK Computer. [3] It contains dialogue sampled from the 1990 film Jacob's Ladder. [4]
Speaking at Radiohead's induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2019, David Byrne of Talking Heads, one of Radiohead's formative influences, said: "What was really weird and very encouraging was that [Kid A] was popular. It was a hit! It proved to me that the artistic risk paid off and music fans sometimes are not stupid."
Where Bluebirds Fly" is a "rattling, fidgety" electronic piece Radiohead used as the introduction music for their Hail to the Thief tour. [1] " I Will (Los Angeles Version)" is an alternative version of "I Will" from Hail to the Thief, [ 1 ] and "Fog (Again)" is a live performance of the Amnesiac B-side "Fog", rearranged for piano. [ 2 ]