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Then Phish headed home, to the Northeast, for two shows at Great Woods in Mansfield, Mass., a show in Camden, NJ, and the final show, Coventry. Radiohead's music has inspired musicians from other disciplines, from string quartet to classical and jazz piano. To augment this anticipation, Phish added another show at Hampton Coliseum in Hampton, VA, just two weeks before the run started.
. The tour then took a break of several weeks, building the fans anticipation of the final run. In March 2005, Thom was quoted on the Radiohead Message Board: "hey weve started work." This suggests that Radiohead may be preparing a possible new studio release. Both midwest venues had long been fan favorites. Considering various projects of bandmembers these dates are more probable for a new Radiohead record.

Two shows at the beautiful Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga Springs, NY, followed, before the band headed to the midwest to hit the classic Deer Creek Ampitheater and Alpine Valley Ampitheater for two nights each. Most fans believe that Radiohead will resurface with new material not earlier than late 2005 or early-middle 2006. It started with two shows at Keyspan Park on Coney Island in Brooklyn, a venue radically different from the arenas and ampitheaters that had been Phish's domain (with a few exceptions) since around 1994. The official Radiohead site (http://www.radiohead.com) is particularly active in various promotions and updates, but whether this is indication of feature projects of the band or they will deliver something in the nearby future behind public back – it remains to be seen. The tour was quite a send-off, however. However at February 2005 it was learned that organizers of the Field Day Music Festival for 2005, which rumoured to have Radiohead as headliners, had scrapped plans for a July concert at Greig Farm. We don't want to become caricatures of ourselves, or worse yet, a nostalgia act." So ended Phish's twenty-one year run, with a two-leg tour of 14 shows. There is also this rumoured Thom Yorke solo effort in the pipeline.

Trey stated ". He said in an interview for NME that such a marked change in direction with their next album as Kid A is unexpected. On May 25, 2004 Phish frontman Trey Anastasio announced via the Official Phish website (http://www.phish.com) that the Summer 2004 Tour would be their final tour, and that the 2004 album Undermind would also be their final album. But who knows? I would like to do something that captures our live energy as well." Phil Selway said that the band will probably start recording their next album in 2005. A partial list can be found on the Phish Net Guest FAQ page (http://www.phish.net/faq/guests.html). I would like to see it go from acoustic to hard techno, with everything in the middle. King, George Clinton of Parliament Funkadelic, Jay-Z, and bluegrass legends Del McCoury and Bela Fleck. "I would like to see us try very different styles.

Phish truly transcend genres, as evidenced by the sheer number of guests who have taken the stage with them over the years. Notables include Phil Lesh and Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead (who showed up at their final pre-hiatus show, 7 October 2000), blues legend B.B. May 2004 Colin Greenwood was quoted by Australian interview: "We all have different agendas about what we want to do in Radiohead," Greenwood said. All net profits from the sale of soundboard recordings from their website are donated directly to the Mockingbird Foundation, a non-profit organization of Phish fans supporting music education for children. As for a new album, several members stated different things in 2004: Ed O'Brien mentioned that they just want to let the year pass on, before thinking about something new. They may freely give or trade them with other fans, however, and many do. And last but not least according to the site Barbican, Greenwood will make a premiere in 23 April 2005, of his new work commissioned by BBC Radio 3, with music performed live by the BBC Concert Orchestra in London. Though soundboard copies of Phish's shows are now pressed and sold on the band's website, fans are also permitted to tape any performance they so desire, with the understanding that no profits from the recording are to be made. Phil and the latter, along with Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker will appear in the upcoming Harry Potter movie, HP and the Goblet of Fire fall 2005, as the band "Wyrd Sisters".

Like the Grateful Dead before them, Phish (along with an increasing number of bands these days) have always allowed people to record and distribute audio of their live performances. Also some new work from Thom and Jonny will be performed by the London Synfonietta at the Ether Festival in March. While the band knew and emulated the group they are quick to point out they are technically very different from them. The first sign of Radiohead on-stage appearance was the performing of Phil in 26 February 2005 with the band Dive Dive at the Oxford Zodiac. The free and artistic community which often accompanies them has as its roots the followers of the Grateful Dead. It seems that most of 2005 will pass in a similar way with mostly Jonny to the fore with more solo projects, but band members will appear on-stage. Phish fans are often associated in the public eye with a revival of some elements of hippie culture, especially marijuana use. A new Radiohead book by Joseph Tate is expected soon in 2005, entitled The Music and Art of Radiohead.

Other music groups have had flavors named after them as well, with the Grateful Dead being the first ("Cherry Garcia (http://www.benandjerrys.com/our_products/flavor_details.cfm?product_id=5)") and Dave Matthews Band being among the more recent ("One Sweet Whirled") and ("Dave Matthews Band Magic Brownies (http://www.benandjerrys.com/our_products/flavor_details.cfm?product_id=151)"). Thom Yorke hinted that this is a collection of songs, previously unreleased, that couldn't be found on the web or in Radiohead's entire back-catalogue. The band's share of the profits go towards the cleaning of Lake Champlain. In November, Jonny (on guitar) and Thom (on piano) combined their talents with Sir Paul McCartney (on bass) and Supergrass' Danny Goffey (on drums) for the Band Aid 20 project to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the original song, which featured stars like George Michael, Duran Duran and Phil Collins. It was released on November 29, 2004. The band only gave note of themselves as a whole with their latest release in 1 December: the DVD "The Most Gigantic Lying Mouth". It is Ben and Jerry's third highest selling flavor as of 2000. Phil, known as a member and supporter of the Samaritans' Health organization was involved with them. Ben and Jerry named a flavour of ice cream after them, "Phish Food." It has chocolate ice cream with gooey marshmallows and fudge fish. There were a few rumours and reports that Thom was working on solo project.

The band in fact only had one non-album b-side on all of their officially-released singles, an outtake from Billy Breathes entitled "Strange Design" from overseas copies of their song "Free". Other members of the band were also working on separate and solo projects. In fact, the culture surrounding the Phish was discussed much more frequently by the media than the actual music. In the middle of the year Jonny became "Composer in Residence" for BBC, charged with creating modern classical pieces for the BBC Concert Orchestra. In fact, the group only had one foray into music video, that for their song Down With Disease, cobbled in part from their legendary live performances, and directed by Mike Gordon. Drummer Phil Selway, unlike previous years, also started doing collaborative work. Despite the great successes by the band, the group seldom found themselves regularly on the radio or MTV. Chief artists Jonny Greenwood and Thom Yorke were mostly at the fore, while the remaining made seldom public or creative appearances.

Coventry is further discussed below. After the lengthy tour, the rest of the year passed with band members devoting themselves to solo projects and recordings with other artists. This 2 segment tour ended with the Coventry festival on August 14th and 15th, 2004, which was a very emotional, though not well played, farewell. The band finished touring and promoting Hail to the Thief in mid-2004 with an acclaimed performance at Coachella Festival. 2nd, a stellar four night New Year's run in Miami, a three night April 2004 Las Vegas run, and the final summer tour of 2004. It features live takes, remixes, and different versions of Hail to the Thief-era songs, as well as a handful of acoustic and electronic numbers. 28th - Dec. With 11 tracks, COM LAG is longer than the average Radiohead EP.

After the IT festival, a few days after the Starlake show, Phish played a 4 night anniversary run from Nov. One year after the release of Hail to the Thief, Radiohead released a new EP entitled COM LAG (2plus2isfive), while on their 2004 tour in Australia and Japan. On this night, Trey declared that the ficticious character "Jimmy" mentioned in songs like "Squirming Coil" and during nearly every "Harpua" story was really drummer Jon Fishman, cluing the fans in to one of Phish's inside jokes (similar to Paul McCartney of the Beatles being the "Walrus"). The same year, Jonny Greenwood, with the help of his brother fellow bandmember Colin Greenwood, recorded and produced the soundtrack Bodysong for the avant-garde documentary movie of the same name. "Harpua" is one of the most rarely played Phish originals, and is known for the stories Trey tells during the middle section. They omitted the traditional fan-pleasing "Creep" (in all their concerts but their last, at Coachella Festival), to no-one's surprise. During the second set the song "Harpua" was played for the last time. Radiohead headlined the main (Pyramid) stage on the Saturday of the Glastonbury 2003, to huge crowd acclaim and positive press reviews.

During the first set, the first 9 songs played made their first appearance that tour, with many being the first versions since Hiatus ended, delighting those fortunate enough to be in attendence. It saw the band visiting Australia and Japan for the first time for more than 6 years, since their OK Computer tour in 1997–1998, many Australian fans were deeply upset by the cancellation of the last show merely hours before its scheduled start, many of whom had come to Melbourne all the way from Brisbane. Notable during this summer tour was the July 29th show at the Star Lake Ampitheater in Burgettstown, Pennsylvaina. After that, Radiohead embarked on a huge international tour, which continued for about a year. They completed a Winter and Summer Tour for 2003. In contrast to the band's mood following the release of OK Computer, subsequent interviews and performances showed a band contented with themselves and their record: they were responding kindly to any interviews, while Yorke and his bandmembers were grinning and dancing on stages. Phish ended the self-imposed hiatus with a sold-out New Year's Eve (12/31/02) show at Madison Square Garden in New York City followed by a 3 show run in Hampton, VA. It was greeted warmly by both fans and the press.

Bruce Hampron and making films such as Outside Out and The Deep End, along with touring with The Benevento Russo Duo. Hail to the Thief displayed influences from Radiohead's last three records, containing some electronic and ambient pieces and some new experimental sounds. It is generally considered to be a more guitar-based record than Kid A and Amnesiac. The band members then began embarking on side projects: Trey fronting his own 10-piece band featuring Cyro Baptista and Jennifer Hartswick and working with Stewart Copeland of The Police and Les Claypool of Primus in the super group Oysterhead, Page forming the trio Vida Blue with Russell Batiste (The Meters) and Oteil Burbridge (Allman Brothers), Fish performing with Pork Tornado and Jazz Mandolin Project, and Mike working on his own solo album with help from artists such as Bela Fleck and Col. Even though the album was leaked, its sales overgrew those of their last two records both in its first week of release and overall. Phish toured throughout the summer and fall of 2000, and began a hiatus at the end of the tour (The first break longer than a few months for 17 years). Unfortunately for them, the original album recordings also met the same fate, but the band remained adamant, didn't pull the album for an earlier date, and released it on the announced day: June 9, 2003. It is, in this sense, not altogether surprising that the band's hiatus came but 10 months after Big Cypress. Two months before the album release, an unfinished version of the album was stolen, apparently from the recording studio where they were working, and uploaded to the internet.

The band later commented that this performance was a true highlight for them, so much so that it was the apex of their time as a band. On the day of his inauguration, Bush was greeted in Washington by thousands of protestors with banners, who shouted "Hail to the thief, our commander in chief!". The "Midnight to Sunrise" set included a performance of "Heavy Things" that was broadcast on ABC at around 2:30 am EST as part of the millennium celebrations. presidential election. That being said, he couldn't deny that the phrase "Hail to the thief" was additionally used as an anti-Bush slogan by protestors at the end of the controversial 2000 election campaign that put him into the White House. The final day of this festival was capped by a now legendary eight hour set that ran from shortly before midnight on December 31, 1999 until roughly 8 am the next morning. election, I'd find that to be pretty shallow." Instead, Yorke claimed that he had gotten the phrase from a radio program about the also controversial 1888 U.S. The concert at Big Cypress was particularly notable, for the band and the fans alike. In the June 2003 issue of Spin Magazine, Thom Yorke was quoted as saying "If the motivation for naming our album had been based solely on the U.S.

Their fame grew with each successive release and, instead of succumbing to the pressures of huge stadium concerts, the band began organizing massive festivals such as the Clifford Ball (1996 in music), Great Went (1997 in music), Lemonwheel (1998 in music), Oswego (1999 in music), a 3 day millennium concert at the Big Cypress Seminole reservation at the end of 1999 (1999 in music), and the IT festival at Loring Air Force Base in Limestone, Maine held in August, 2003. The band deny this claim. Phish fans are extremely giving, and with a little cajoling, you'll be on your way. Presidential election. To really hear Phish, you must get live recordings, which can be bought through the Live Phish (http://www.livephish.com) website, or traded on any number of music messageboards. The album's title raised controversy in the U.S., being interpreted as a reference to the 2000 U.S. Phish is a live band, and studio albums often don't give an accurate picture of what the band is really capable of. In 2003 the band released their sixth album, which was rooted in less overt experimentation than its two immediate predecessors but was still a long way from their earlier guitar-driven material.

They have also released three DVDs of live performances, one from a Las Vegas performance on September 30, 2000, a documentary about life on the road entitled Bittersweet Motel and a documentary about their 2003 festival in Limestone, ME called, simply, "IT" (http://www.phish.com/drygoods/home/product.html?pid=100DV&cid=19&pg=). With the songs fleshed out and finalised during the tour, the band completed the album in a Los Angeles studio in a fortnight. The Live Phish Series began in late 2001. The band elected to take their new material on the road in Portugal and Spain during July and August of 2002 prior to recording it. Phish is also releasing a steady stream of recorded live concerts from their archives, which contain thousands of concerts. Six albums are released twice each year. Their sessions were more like the Bends, rather than the usual holing in a studio for months. Note: All album information is taken from The Pharmer's Almanac book released in 2000.. The recording process for their next record, Hail to the Thief, was remarkably different from those for the previous three studio albums.

They were signed to Elektra Records and released:. In the fall of 2001, they released their first live album: I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings, featuring performances from Berlin, Paris, London and a couple of other concerts and also including one unreleased track, "True Love Waits". They recorded their debut album, "Junta" in 1988 (1988 in music), and began touring nationally soon after, playing 150 concerts in 1990 (1990 in music) alone. It was at this concert that the band finally played "Creep," after having refused to perform the song for many years. Initially the band wanted to release "I Might Be Wrong" as their new single after "Pyramid Song" and "Knives Out", but soon the idea expanded into a full-fledged live record. Their more epic compositions (such as "The Divided Sky" and "You Enjoy Myself") are often said to resemble classical music in a rock setting. After the release of the album, the band staged their own mini-festival in Oxford's South Park, featuring Sigur Ros, Supergrass, Humphrey Lyttelton (who played trumpet on "Life in a Glass House", the closing track on Amnesiac), and themselves. Phish began playing at local clubs in Burlington, and their live shows gained a reputation for extended improvisational jams. Their musical ethos is a playful mix of skilled improvisation, psychedelic rock, folk, bluegrass, funk, a capella/barbershop quartet, and intricate compositions. Some of their original compositions (such as "Theme from the Bottom" and "Farmhouse") tend towards a psychedelic-rock and bluegrass fusion, with more rock and funk elements than the Grateful Dead and other earlier so-called jam bands. While fans tend to like Kid A more than Amnesiac, the latter should be considered as the next successful and experimental chapter of their expedition in the musical world.

After 21 years together, the band parted ways in 2004. Nevertheless the album was received very well and nearly reached Kid A's sales. In early 1986, Holdsworth left the group, thus solidifying the band's classic lineup. With Kid A, when you sequenced certain tracks together, this play started appearing." Indeed, while Kid A is a more soulful, melodic, and inviting record, albeit slightly dark, Amnesiac is instantly unsettling and more uncomfortable to the listener. In 1985, Page McConnell joined on keyboards. With Amnesiac, you're actually in the forest while the fire's happening. Phish, a US band, was formed in 1983 (1983 in music) at the University of Vermont by guitarist/vocalist Trey Anastasio, rhythm guitarist Jeff Holdsworth, bassist Mike Gordon, and drummer Jonathan Fishman. The fires were all going on the other side of the hill.

Download sample of "Farmhouse" from Farmhouse. The artwork to Kid A was all in the distance. Undermind (2004 in music). I think the artwork is the best way of explaining it. Round Room (2002 in music). Amnesiac is more about being in the woods, in the countryside. Farmhouse (2000 in music). About the differences with the previous record he says: "Kid A was kind of like an electric shock.

Hampton Comes Alive (1999 in music). Go back and listen to Kid A after listening to Amnesiac, and I think you'll hear it.". The Siket Disc (1999 in music) - "All music on this disc was recorded live (no overdubs) during two multi-day jam sessions at Bearsville Studios in 1997." (1997 in music). In some weird way, I think Amnesiac gives another take on Kid A, a form of explanation." He continues: "Something traumatic is happening in Kid A, and this is looking back at it, trying to piece together what has happened. The Story of the Ghost (1998 in music). They come from two different places, I think .. Slip Stitch and Pass (1997 in music) - Recorded live at Markthalle, Hamburg, Germany, March 1, 1997. They cancel each other out as overall finished things.

Billy Breathes (1996 in music). Conceived as two separate sequences of songs, the two albums are similar in style and are linked by two different versions of the same song: "Morning Bell." While explaining the decision to release two albums rather than one, Thom illuminates his artistic intentions and further clarifies the relationship between Kid A and Amnesiac: "They are separate because they cannot run in a straight line with each other. A Live One (1995 in music) - Recorded live during the fall of 1994. The follow-up, Amnesiac, which was released in June of the following year, was comprised of further tracks from the same recording sessions as Kid A. Hoist (1994 in music). Today, Kid A is considered by fans and critics as one of the greatest electronic albums made by a rock band and one of Radiohead's finest records. Rift (1993 in music). Kid A received Grammy Award for Best Alternative Album as its predecessor, which fired them to superstardom.

Picture of Nectar (1992 in music). The band cited Alice Coltrane, Charles Mingus and Paul Lansky as influences, as well as the entire back catalogue of Warp Records. Lawn Boy (1990 in music). Kid A was released in October 2000. Junta (1988 in music). The album's arrangements have been likened to a meeting of Pink Floyd and Aphex Twin. The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday (1987 in music). Whatever the reason for the record's success on the charts, Kid A took the band from indie faves to burgeoning supergroup.

Phish (1986 in music). Even Oasis' chief Noel Gallagher admitted that Kid A's great marketing scheme was its lack of any promotion: "If you refuse to talk about your own album, that just stirs the pot and makes everyone else start talking about it." While others agreed with Gallagher's assessment, it ignored any potential effect of Napster despite the fact it distributed Kid A to a huge number of music fans. With the record's absence of radio airplay, big time marketing, and any other factor that may have explained this stunning success, Menta declared this was proof of the promotional powers of file trading and of word-of-mouth generated by the Net. Instead the opposite happened and the band, which had never hit the US top 20 before, captured the number one spot in Kid A's debut week. The record industry assumed the album was now doomed to failure since fans already had the music for free.

As Richard Menta of MP3 Newswire detailed in his essay "Did Napster Take Radiohead's New Album to Number 1?" millions of fans had possession of this music by the time the CD hit stores. Three months prior to the release of Kid A MP3 tracks of the entire album made their way onto the file sharing service. This is where Radiohead's infamous relationship with Napster came into play. Kid A was finished in April 2000 and with no singles, yet with promos, the album was promoted mainly on the Internet.

After O'Brien's collaboration for the BBC drama series "Eureka Street", the band returned to the studio to record Kid A, a defiantly experimental album that complemented the lyrical and musical hooks of their earlier work with a more minimalist style. He also added that he fell in depression, but managed to recover with Michael Stipe's (R.E.M.'s singer) help. Thom Yorke admitted that after the tour the band was on the verge of splitting up. They only appeared at the Amnesty International Concert in Paris (10 December 1998), and Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood performed at the Tibetan Freedom Concert in Amsterdam, where a new song, "Pyramid Song", made its live debut.

Exhausted by their fame and on the verge of burnout following the OK Computer tour, the band spent the latter part of 1998 in relative quiet. and U2. It nailed Radiohead as top superstars and defined them as one of the greatest bands of 90s, threatening the leadership of seminal acts like R.E.M. Nevertheless OK Computer is regarded by some as one of the greatest rock albums and still tops peaks of various charts.

OK Computer and Verve's sublime final effort - Urban Hymns - are regarded as a boost of the already dying Britpop movement, despite that both records departed from the style. The more notable is the second, which has few songs that could best be described as a bridge between the progressive alternative rock of OK Computer and their subsequent experimental work. We learned a lot from doing it on our own and in retrospect, we are very proud of this record." The band released two EPs No Surprises/Running From Demons (1997) and Airbag/How Am I Driving?(1998), which differ only by a couple of songs. There was the five people in the band and the engineer/mixer Nigel Godrich.

We had to learn how to make decisions amongst the six of us. The important thing for us on this record was that we produce it ourselves. I think we made things a little bit more extreme on this record. I think that there is a consistent sound to 80 percent of the new album.

Colin Greenwood said about the album: "I think the overall mood on the record is starker than The Bends. Grant Gee, the director of the "No Surprises" video, accompanied the band on their tour and filmed it, which resulted in the "on the fly" documentary Meeting People Is Easy. It received a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Album and was followed by their big "Against Demons World Tour". In 16 June 1997 OK Computer was released and received even greater acclaim than The Bends, featuring prominently in many "best album" polls, then and now. It found Radiohead introducing uncommon musical elements, experimenting with ambience and noise to create a set of songs that many consider to be a high point of late-twentieth century rock music.

We were delaying it because we were a bit frightened of actually finishing stuff.". "We weren't given any deadlines and we had complete freedom to do what we wanted. "The biggest pressure was actually completing it," remembers Ed O'Brien. By Christmas 1996, the album was finished, and in February and March was mixed.

A couple of songs—"Exit Music (for a film)" and "Let Down"—were recorded live. They made much use of the various different rooms and atmospheres throughout the house, and the isolation from the outside world encouraged time to run at a different pace, making working hours more flexible and spontaneous. In September they moved to St. Catherine's Court—a mansion owned by actress Jane Seymour—where they recorded the rest of OK Computer, without pressure. At July and August, they returned briefly for touring to present and try the new songs.

The songs were "Subterranean Homesick Alien", "Electioneering", "The Tourist" and "No Surprises". Despite the experimental and unconventional setting, four songs from Canned Applause found their way onto the album. It was the first time the band had attempted to cut album tracks outside of a conventional studio environment. By July 1996, Canned Applause was set up for recording.

Having learnt from The Bends, they decided to break the songs in live before completing the record. By July they had recorded four songs with producer Nigel Godrich. Radiohead began writing OK Computer in early 1996 at their rehearsal studio, Canned Applause, a converted apple shed near their homes in Oxford, England. Now, The Bends is considered by many critics and fans as one of the best albums of the mid-1990s.

Despite that it was not a Britpop album, it was associated with the movement and in early 1996 — widely praised a year after the album's release — Radiohead took part in Cool Britannia, battling famous acts like Oasis, Blur, Pulp and Suede. Although the album helped the band shake off the popular conception that they were "one hit wonders", it wasn't until the fifth single, "Street Spirit (fade out)", that the band would hit the top 10 again after "Creep". Tracks such as "Planet Telex", "Street Spirit (fade out)" and "Fake Plastic Trees" were striking, original and indicators of the group's subsequent developments. Drawing heavily on 1960s influences as well as the then popular music exemplified by groups such as the Pixies and R.E.M., the album was a significant step forward for the group with Yorke's vocal style to the fore.

"It made them re-evaluate what they were good at and enjoyed doing," claimed Hufford. "Playing live again put the perspective back on what they'd lost in the studio." Having worked the songs in on the road, they returned to Britain and completed the album in a fortnight. The solution was a change of scenario: they quit the studio and toured Australasia and the Far East. Everyone was pulling their hair and saying, 'It's not good enough! We were trying too hard.'" The EP My Iron Lung (1994) was released between the two albums, and saw the band in a transitional stage between the poppy simplicity of Pablo Honey and the musical depth of their next album. "We had to give those absolute attention, make the amazing, instant smash hits number 1 in America.

"It was either going to be Sulk, The Bends, Nice Dream or Just," remembers producer John Leckie. However the edifice marked "follow-up to Creep" casted a long shadow over the sessions. It was unexpectedly and suprisingly more mature than their previous, considering the fact that they were marked as one-hit-wonders after their debut. In 1995 it was time for their second record - the more significant and better one The Bends.

Regardless, their potential was evident with songs like the aforementioned "Creep", "Anyone Can Play Guitar", "Thinking About You" and "You". Pablo Honey was a solid, if unremarkable recording, that lacks both the force and experimentation of their later work. Because the album kept on breaking around the world, the Pablo Honey supporting tour lumbered into its second year. A year after its original release, a reissued "Creep" finally hit the UK charts, peaking at number 7.

The single eventually peaked at a modest 34 in the US, but Pablo Honey went gold. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to the band, a radio station in San Francisco, "Live 105" had just named Pablo Honey its favourite record of the year and quickly crossed over onto L.A.'s KROQ and other West Coast stations. The single "Creep" was released in September 1992, while the album was scheduled for February next year. So that's what got us the job doing the album." The album was finished in three weeks.

"Everyone who heard Creep just started going insane. "Jonny played the piano at the end of the song and it was gorgeous" notes producer Paul Kolderie. Legend says that Jonny's famous guitar crunches were supposedly an attempt to ruin a song he didn't like. It was initially passed over, dismissed by Yorke as 'Jonny's Scott Walker song'.

The band weren't unanimously keen on Creep and, until recently, refused to play it, believing that its meaning had been misinterpreted and given too much weight by fans. Striking a highly popular and sympathetic note of similar self-loathing among fans, "Creep" was released around the same time as other so-called "slacker" anthems such as Beck's "Loser". They first came to international attention in the early 1990s, when their single "Creep" received extensive airplay and charted in many countries. Radiohead formed during the late 1980s, originally under the name On A Friday, a name referring to the only time where all band members were able to practice.

In the late years, Yorke showed some of Bono and Michael Stipe's public persona features with disagreement and outcry against the Iraq war in 2003 and against various other topics in politics and social life. and Pink Floyd's mantle. Fans and media regard them as a seminal rock outfit and natural inheritors of R.E.M. The band has a revered rock 'n roll status and is hailed as one of the best acts of the mid '90s.

With his usual wry wit, Thom commented on this: in 2001, when asked by The New Yorker, "how do you guys feel about the fact that bands like Travis, Coldplay, and Muse are making a career sounding exactly like your records did in 1997?" he replied, "good luck with Kid A." Radiohead influence also flows further in many other acts as well as public style from the late 90s and nowadays. The Bends and OK Computer are particularly influential in this respect. Many believe Radiohead to have had a strong influence on contemporary Britpop bands including Coldplay, Stereophonics, Muse and Travis, as well as other acts as Linkin Park and Limp Bizkit have noted Radiohead as huge influence. Donwood and Yorke met at the University of Exeter, and also produce the official band website, Radiohead.com (http://www.radiohead.com/).

Tchock"—a pseudonym for Yorke. Another major contributor is Stanley Donwood, who has produced the artwork for the band's albums since their My Iron Lung EP in collaboration with "Dr. Producer Nigel Godrich has worked with the band since the recording of The Bends, where he assisted producer John Leckie, and has contributed significantly to their sound, often being dubbed the "sixth member" of the band. Later influences include German art-rock band Can, electronic artists such as Autechre and Aphex Twin, and jazz artists such as Charles Mingus and Miles Davis.

The band's early influences include artists such as Elvis Costello, the Pixies, Pink Floyd, R.E.M., U2, Talking Heads, The Beatles, The Smiths, and Mancunian post-punk acts The Fall, Joy Division, and Magazine. Greenwood are chiefly responsible for songwriting, most often with Yorke originating songs and Greenwood building on them. Yorke and J. The band consists of:.

Their current moniker, "Radiohead", was taken from the song "Radio Head" by Talking Heads, whose album Remain in Light (1980) is a band favorite and major influence on their Kid A (2000). Radiohead is a British rock band from Oxford. Pink Floyd. Coldplay.

Brian Eno. Manic Street Preachers. Muse. Blur.

The Music and Art of Radiohead by Joseph Tate (2005). Radiohead: A Visual Documentary by Tim Footman and Billy Dancer (2002). Radiohead: Back to Save the Universe: The Stories Behind Every Song by James Doheny (2002). Exit Music: The Radiohead Story by Mac Randall (2000).

Radiohead: Hysterical and Useless by Martin Clarke (2000). Radiohead: From a Great Height by Jonathan Hale (1999). Radiohead: An Illustrated Biography by Nick Johnstone (1997). The Most Gigantic Lying Mouth Of All Time (December 1, 2004) DVD.

7 Television Commercials (August 5, 2003) DVD. Meeting People Is Easy (1999) VHS/DVD. Seven Television Commercials (1997) VHS/DVD. Live at the Astoria (1995) VHS.

"2 + 2 = 5" (2003); #15 UK. "Go To Sleep." (2003); #12 UK. "There There." (2003); #4 UK. "I Might Be Wrong" (2001) (promo only).

"Knives Out" (2001); #13 UK. "Pyramid Song" (2001); #5 UK. "The National Anthem" (2000) (promo only). "No Surprises" (1998); #4 UK.

"Karma Police" (1997); #8 UK. "Paranoid Android" (1997); #3 UK. "Street Spirit (Fade Out)" (1996); #5 UK. "Just" (1995); #19 UK.

"Fake Plastic Trees" (1995); #20 UK. "Planet Telex / High & Dry" (1995); #17 UK, #78 US. "My Iron Lung" (1994); #24 UK. "The Bends" (1996).

only. "Stop Whispering" (1993) *U.S. "Pop Is Dead" (1993); #42 UK. "Creep" (1993); #7 UK, #34 US.

"Anyone Can Play Guitar" (1993); #32 UK. COM LAG (2plus2isfive) (2004); #37 UK (album chart) - Japan release. I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings (2001); #22 UK (album chart), #44 US (album chart). Amnesiac College EP (2001) - US College Radio.

Airbag/How Am I Driving? (1998); #56 US (album chart) - US aimed release. No Surprises/Running From Demons (1997) - Japan Only. The Bends Pinkpop (1996) - Dutch Single. Live Au Forum (1995) - France Only.

My Iron Lung (1994) - Australian CD