By the end of 1995, Radiohead had already got their hands on a track that would soon be included on their next album. “Lucky” – which got a release as a single to help promote the War Child charity’s album The Help Album – had been laid down in a…
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1995 was a big year for Radiohead tours of North America and Europe – this time it was in support of R.E.M. a band that had a huge influence on Radiohead and were at the time one of the biggest rock acts in the world. Looking good on the telly…
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Radiohead headed into the studio to start work on their second album in 1994 with the help of veteran producer John Leckie from the esteemed Abbey Road Studios . The pressure was on to follow up on the massive success of ” Creep “. All the attention and adoration was…
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The My Iron Lung EP which came out in 1994 was basically Radiohead’s riposte , a sign that they were moving in the direction of the more in-depth sound they were aiming for with their next album . This one was actually their first proper collaboration with Nigel Godrich who’s…
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In early 1993 though things started to pick up for Radiohead. “Creep” somehow started doing OK in Israel – thanks to influential DJ Yoav Kutner who was playing it all the time – and in March they got a gig in Tel Aviv – their first show overseas. Around the…
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Pablo Honey was released in February 1993. It somehow managed to scrape its way up to number 22 in the UK chart. The singles “Creep”, “Anyone Can Play Guitar” and “Stop Whispering” didnt quite have the impact we wanted, and the non-album single “Pop Is Dead” tanked pretty badly. Years…
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So Radiohead recorded a debut EP called Drill, with Hufford and Edge at Courtyard Studios. But unfortunately, it didn’t exactly set the world on fire when it came out in May 1992. The EMI bigwigs were struggling to get Radiohead noticed in the UK – where the indie labels were…
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Late in 1991, Colin bumped into EMI’s A&R man Keith Wozencroft at a record shop and just handed him a copy of the demo. Wozencroft was a fan, and he showed up to see the band play at the Jericho Tavern that November. That was their eighth gig, but somehow…
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In 1991, On a Friday reformed in Oxford, and this time they shared a house on the corner of Magdalen Road and Ridgefield Road. They knocked up another demo, which caught the ear of Chris Hufford – producer for Slowdive, and one half of the team that ran Courtyard Studios…
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In those early days, each member chipped in with their own songs, but Yorke eventually emerged as the main songwriter. As Colin puts it, the band members just sort of picked up instruments because it seemed like a cool idea – no one bothered to think “oh, I really want…
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