RADIOHEAD
BIOGRAPHY
Radiohead are an English rock band formed in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, in 1985. They comprise Thom Yorke (vocals, guitar, piano, keyboards); brothers Jonny Greenwood (guitar, keyboards, other instruments) and Colin Greenwood (bass); Ed O'Brien (guitar, backing vocals); and Philip Selway (drums, percussion). They have worked with the producer Nigel Godrich and the cover artist Stanley Donwood since 1994. Radiohead's experimental approach is credited with advancing the sound of alternative rock.
TRIVIA
- Phil Selway and Johnny Greenwood (along with Pulp's Jarvis Cocker) are members of The Weird Sisters, the popular wizarding band featured in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
- Thom Yorke recorded the vocals of "Planet Telex" while lying on the floor. He was extremely drunk on wine.
- "Exit Music (for a film)" was inspired by Chopin's Prelude in E Minor (Op. 48, No. 4).
- "Just" originated as a competition between Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood to get as many chords as possible into one song.
- Jonny Greenwood's signature guitar sounds on "Creep" came from him crunching the strings together as a protest because of how much he hated the song. To sabotage it during recording, Greenwood turned his distortion pedals all the way up and hit the strings as hard as he could, generating the now iconic crunch.
- The name of the band was originally On a Friday, for the day they met for practice while still at school, but they changed it to Radiohead in reference to the Talking Heads song "Radio Head."
