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"Jigsaw Falling into Place" was released on 14 January 2008 on XL Records as the first single from Radiohead's seventh studio album, In Rainbows (2007). [6] Yorke's performances of "Videotape", "Down is the New Up" and "Last Flowers" from the television series From the Basement were included as B-sides. [ 6 ]
Radiohead promoted In Rainbows with the singles "Jigsaw Falling into Place" and "Nude", plus webcasts, music videos, competitions and a worldwide tour. The retail release topped the UK Albums Chart and the US Billboard 200, and by October 2008 it had sold more than three million copies worldwide.
"Nude" reached number 21 on the UK singles chart, outperforming the previous In Rainbows single, "Jigsaw Falling into Place". In the US, it reached number 37 on the Billboard Hot 100, making it Radiohead's second top-40 hit after their debut single, "Creep", reached number 34 in 1993.
Radiohead debuted "Cut a Hole" on the King of Limbs tour in 2012. [81] The song builds gradually to a climax, with "menacing" lyrics about a "long-distance connection". [ 81 ] NME described it as "an atmospheric, shifting gloomathon" with a "head-flung-back vocal from Thom, climaxing with some of his highest notes since OK Computer ".
The first single from In Rainbows, "Jigsaw Falling into Place", was released in January 2008, [125] followed by "Nude" in March, [126] which debuted at number 37 in the Billboard Hot 100; it was Radiohead's first song to enter the chart since "High and Dry" (1995) and their first US top 40 since "Creep". [27]
The lyrics were inspired by the stress felt by the singer, Thom Yorke, while promoting Radiohead's album OK Computer (1997). Yorke wrote "Everything in Its Right Place" on piano. Radiohead worked on it in a conventional band arrangement before transferring it to synthesiser, and described it as a breakthrough in the album recording.
It sold more than three million copies in one year. "Nude" and "Jigsaw Falling Into Place" were released as singles; "Nude" was Radiohead's first top-40 hit on the US Billboard Hot 100 since "Creep". [6] Radiohead released their eighth album, The King of Limbs, in February 2011.
Radio Rewrite is a 2012 musical composition by the American composer Steve Reich, [1] inspired by two songs by the British rock band Radiohead: "Jigsaw Falling into Place" and "Everything in Its Right Place". It is the first time that Reich has reworked material from western pop or rock music.