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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]
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]
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]
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]
Radiohead spent several weeks recording at RAK Studios, London. EMI gave Radiohead nine weeks to record the album, [3] planning to release it in October 1994. [11] Work began at RAK Studios in London in February 1994. [2] Yorke would arrive at the studio early and work alone at the piano; according to Leckie, "New songs were pouring out of him."
The show was released free online that December as Radiohead for Haiti, and included a performance of the King of Limbs track "Lotus Flower" by Yorke on acoustic guitar. [14] In February, at a benefit concert in aid of the Green Party , Yorke performed songs including "Separator" (then titled "Mouse Dog Bird") and "Give Up the Ghost". [ 15 ]
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.
Radiohead took Yorke's electronic influences to their next albums Kid A (2000) and Amnesiac (2001), processing vocals, obscuring lyrics, and using electronic instruments such as synthesisers, drum machines and samplers. The albums divided listeners, but were commercially successful and later attracted acclaim.