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Abingdon School, where the band 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]
It was Radiohead's fourth consecutive UK number-one album and was certified platinum. [1] [3] Radiohead released their seventh album, In Rainbows, in October 2007 as a download for which customers could set their own price; a conventional retail release followed. It sold more than three million copies in one year.
Year Ref. "15 Step" In Rainbows: Nigel Godrich: 2007 [34] "2 + 2 = 5" Hail to the Thief: Nigel Godrich Radiohead 2003 [35] "4 Minute Warning" In Rainbows Disk 2: Nigel Godrich 2007 [36] "Airbag" OK Computer: Nigel Godrich Radiohead 1997 [37] "All I Need" In Rainbows: Nigel Godrich 2007 [34] " The Amazing Sounds of Orgy" B-side to "Pyramid Song ...
Colin Greenwood is the older brother of the Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood. [1] Their father served in the British Army as a bomb disposal expert. [2] [3] The Greenwood family has historical ties to the British Communist Party and the socialist Fabian Society. [4]
In 1992, the band played over 100 shows across most of the United Kingdom. The year ended with a highly negative review of Radiohead's live show in the NME, in which writer Keith Cameron wrote "Radiohead are a pitiful, lily-livered excuse for a rock 'n' roll group." [14] Radiohead played a few dates in the UK in January 1993. [15]
[110] That year, Yorke performed with Godrich and the audiovisual artist Tarik Barri at the Latitude Festival in the UK and Summer Sonic in Japan. [111] Radiohead released their ninth album, A Moon Shaped Pool, on 8 May 2016. [112] Yorke contributed vocals and appeared in the video for "Beautiful People" from Mark Pritchard's 2016 album Under ...
Kid A won the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Album and was nominated for the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. Radiohead released a second album of material from the sessions, Amnesiac, in 2001. In 2021, they released Kid A Mnesia, an anniversary reissue compiling Kid A, Amnesiac and previously unreleased material.
Two years after its release, the Guardian critic Caroline Sullivan wrote that The Bends had taken Radiohead from "indie one hit-wonder" into the "premier league of respected British rock bands". [92] The Rolling Stone journalist Jordan Runtagh wrote in 2012 that The Bends was "a musically dense and emotionally complex masterwork that erased ...