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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]
In 2001, Johnny Marr, the guitarist for one of Radiohead's early influences, the Smiths, said that Radiohead was the act that had "come closest to the genuine influence of the Smiths". [ 325 ] In 2003, the Village Voice critic Robert Christgau wrote that Radiohead were "the only youngish band standing that combines critical consensus with the ...
Meeting People Is Easy is a 1998 British documentary film by Grant Gee that follows the English rock band Radiohead on the world tour for their 1997 album OK Computer.It received positive reviews and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Music Film at the 42nd Annual Grammy Awards in 2000.
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."
Radiohead Alternative rock; art rock; Parlophone; Capitol; Cited as one of the greatest albums of all time for its anticipation of the mood of 21st-century life's rampant consumerism, capitalism, social alienation, paranoia, and political malaise and its influence in pushing British rock from Britpop towards melancholic, atmospheric alternative ...
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).
Radiohead took their name from the 1986 Talking Heads song "Radio Head", [86] and cited Remain in Light as a critical influence on their 2000 album, Kid A. [87] Italian filmmaker and director Paolo Sorrentino, receiving the Oscar for his film La Grande Bellezza in 2014, thanked Talking Heads, among others, as his sources of inspiration. [88]
Hollywood culture influenced the lyrics and artwork. In September 2002, Radiohead moved to Ocean Way Recording in Hollywood, Los Angeles, with their longtime producer, Nigel Godrich. [5] The studio was suggested by Godrich, who had used it to produce records by Travis and Beck and thought it would be a "good change of scenery" for Radiohead. [6]