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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]
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 ...
Yorke cited the Pixies, [212] Björk and PJ Harvey as artists who "changed his life", [213] and in 2006 he told Pitchfork that Radiohead had "ripped off R.E.M. blind for years". [65] He cited Stipe as his favourite lyricist: "I loved the way he would take an emotion and then take a step back from it and in doing so make it so much more powerful."
Band Aid 20 was the 2004 incarnation of the charity supergroup Band Aid.The group, which included Daniel Bedingfield, Dido, Justin Hawkins of The Darkness, Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead, Chris Martin of Coldplay, Bono of U2, and Paul McCartney, re-recorded the 1984 song "Do They Know It's Christmas?", written by Band Aid organisers Bob Geldof and Midge Ure.
Kid A is the fourth studio album by the English rock band Radiohead, released on 2 October 2000 by Parlophone.It was recorded with their producer, Nigel Godrich, in Paris, Copenhagen, Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire.
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]
Atoms for Peace were an English-American rock supergroup comprising the Radiohead songwriter Thom Yorke (vocals, guitar, piano), the Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea, the Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich (keyboards, synthesisers, guitars), the Beck and R.E.M. drummer Joey Waronker, and the Forro in the Dark percussionist Mauro Refosco.