FYI: Radiohead
Hopefully by now you’ve heard the news about Radiohead’s new album, if not, you can go here or there for more info. With all this buzz, it seems like a good time for an FYI on Radiohead.
- Colin Greenwood, Thom Yorke, Ed O’ Brien, Phil Selway and Jonny Greenwood went to Abingdon School together.
- In 1986 they formed the band On A Friday and played their first gig at Jericho Tavern in Oxford.
- Guitarist Jonny Greenwood originally joined the band as a keyboard player.
- In 1991 the band signed with EMI and changed their name to Radiohead.
- “Radio Head” is a song featured on the Talking Heads album True Stories.
- On May 5, 1992 the band released the EP Drill.
- Pablo Honey was released on Februrary 22, 1993; the title is taken from a Jerky Boys skit (the Jerky Boys made lots of money by prank calling people).
- “Creep” was the band’s first single from Pablo Honey and gained popularity in Israel, followed by San Francisco and then the rest of the States.
- Pearl Jam have NOT covered “Creep”, however, Eddie Vedder did record a version during the infamous “birdman session”.
- On March 13, 1995 Radiohead released their second album, The Bends.
- Thom Yorke recorded the vocals for “Fake Plastic Trees” after the band had seen Jeff Buckley.
- Radiohead opened up for R.E.M. in the summer of 1995.
- The band contributed two songs for the 1996 adaptation of Romeo and Juliet. “Talk Show Host” appeared on the soundtrack, while “Exit Music (For a Film)” only appeared in the closing credits.
- Radiohead performed songs from OK Computer live while on tour with Alanis Morissette before the recording the album.
- OK Computer was recorded in a converted apple shed and actress Jane Seymour’s 15th century mansion.
- OK Computer was released on June 16, 1997 and has gone on to triple platinum status in the UK and double platinum in the US.
- The video for “Paranoid Android” was done by Swedish cartoonist Magnus Carlssonm, which used characters from his animated TV series Robin.
- The band’s rockumentary, Meeting People Is Easy, covers the band during the OK Computer tour and was the first ever DVD released by their label (EMI/Parlophone/Capitol).
- Kid A was released on October 2, 2ooo, with no official singles being released and using the internet instead to promote the album.
- The song “Everything in it’s Place” appears in the movie and soundtrack for Vanilla Sky.
- “Motion Picture Soundtrack” was written before “Creep” was.
- Amnesiac was released in June of 2001 and was recorded during the Kid A sessions.
- “Pyramid Song” made it’s live debut at the 1999 Tibetan Freedom Concert in Amsterdam, which was just Thom Yorke and a piano.
- “Knives Out” was covered by the Flaming Lips on their Fight Test EP.
- Hail to the Thief was released in June of 2003 and was recorded mainly during a two week session in L.A.
- Every song title on Hail to the Thief has a parenthetical subtitle.
- “There There. (The Boney King of Nowhere)” was the band’s biggest radio single since “Karma Police”.
- The EP COM LAG (2plus2isfive) is a compilation of b-sides from Hail to the Thief, and was released in Australia and Japan in 2004 and finally the UK in 2007.
- Radiohead have fulfilled their contract with EMI and are currently without a label.
- The band began work on a new album in early 2005.
- During their European and North American tour in 2006, Radiohead unveiled 13 new songs.
- The bands seventh album, In Rainbows, will be released as a digital download on October, 1o.
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