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Thom Yorke

February 16, 2024

Not to be confused with Tom Yorke or Tom York.

Thomas Edward Yorke (born 7 October 1968) is an English musician who is the main vocalist and songwriter of the rock band Radiohead. A multi-instrumentalist, he mainly plays guitar and keyboards and is noted for his falsetto. He has been described by Rolling Stone as one of the greatest and most influential singers of his generation.

Thom Yorke
Yorke in 2022
Background information
Birth nameThomas Edward Yorke
Also known as
  • Sisi Bakbak[1]
  • Tchock[2]
  • The White Chocolate Farm
  • Zachariah Wildwood
  • Thmx
Born (1968-10-07) 7 October 1968 (age 55)
Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, England
Genres
Occupation(s)
  • Singer
  • songwriter
  • composer
Instrument(s)
  • Vocals
  • guitar
  • keyboards
  • bass
Years active1985–present
LabelsXL
Member of
Formerly ofAtoms for Peace
Spouse(s)
  • ​
    ​
    (m. 2003; sep. 2015)​
  • Dajana Roncione
    ​
    (m. 2020)​

Yorke formed Radiohead with schoolmates at Abingdon School in Oxfordshire. Their 1992 debut single, "Creep", made Yorke a celebrity, and Radiohead went on to achieve critical acclaim and sales of more than 30 million albums. Yorke's early influences included alternative rock acts such as Pixies and R.E.M. With Radiohead's fourth album, Kid A (2000), Yorke moved into electronic music, influenced by Warp acts such as Aphex Twin. With the artist Stanley Donwood, Yorke creates artwork for Radiohead albums and his other projects. He often incorporates "erratic" dancing into his performances.

Yorke's solo work comprises mainly electronic music. His debut solo album, The Eraser, was released in 2006. To perform it live, in 2009, he formed a new band, Atoms for Peace, with musicians including the Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea and the Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich. They released an album, Amok, in 2013. Yorke's second solo album, Tomorrow's Modern Boxes, was released in 2014, followed by Anima in 2019. In 2021, Yorke debuted a new band, the Smile, with the Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood and the jazz drummer Tom Skinner. Yorke has collaborated with artists including PJ Harvey, Björk, Flying Lotus and Modeselektor, and has composed for film and theatre. His first feature film soundtrack, Suspiria, was released in 2018.

Yorke is an activist on behalf of human rights, animal rights, environmental and anti-war causes, and his lyrics incorporate political themes. He has been critical of the music industry, particularly of major labels and streaming services such as Spotify. With Radiohead and his solo work, he has employed alternative release platforms such as pay-what-you-want and BitTorrent. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Radiohead in 2019.

Early life edit

Yorke was born on 7 October 1968 in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire. He was born with a paralysed left eye, and underwent five eye operations by the age of six.[5] According to Yorke, the last surgery was "botched", giving him a drooping eyelid.[6] He decided against further surgery: "I decided I liked the fact that it wasn't the same, and I've liked it ever since. And when people say stuff I kind of thought it was a badge of pride, and still do."[7]

The family moved frequently. Shortly after Yorke's birth, his father, a nuclear physicist and later a chemical equipment salesman, was hired by a firm in Scotland. The family lived in Lundin Links[8][9] until Yorke was seven, and he moved from school to school.[10] The family settled in Oxfordshire in 1978,[10] where Yorke attended primary school in Standlake.[11]

Yorke said he knew he would become a rock star after seeing the Queen guitarist Brian May on television for the first time at the age of eight.[12] He initially wanted to be a guitarist rather than a singer, but began singing as he had no one else to sing the songs he was writing.[13] He received his first guitar as a child.[6][14] At 10, he made his own guitar, inspired by May's homemade Red Special.[15] By 11, he had joined his first band and written his first song.[16] Seeing Siouxsie Sioux in concert at the Apollo in 1985 inspired him to become a performer; Yorke said he had never seen anyone "captivate an audience like she did".[17]

Yorke attended the boys' public school Abingdon in Oxfordshire. He felt out of place,[18] and got into physical fights with other students.[12] He found sanctuary in the music and art departments,[18] and wrote music for a school production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.[19] At school, he performed a vocal recital of a Schubert piece, which helped him find the confidence to become a singer.[13] Terence Gilmore-James, the Abingdon director of music, recalled Yorke as "forlorn and a little isolated" thanks to his unusual appearance, but talkative and opinionated. He said Yorke was "not a great musician", unlike his future bandmate Jonny Greenwood, but a "thinker and experimenter".[18] Yorke later credited the support of Gilmore-James and the head of the art department for his success.[7]

1985–1991: On a Friday edit

 
Abingdon School, Oxfordshire, where Yorke formed Radiohead with classmates

In sixth form at Abingdon, Yorke played with a punk band, TNT, but left when he was dissatisfied with their progress.[20] He began playing with the students Ed O'Brien, Philip Selway and Colin Greenwood, joined later by Colin's younger brother Jonny.[20] In 1985, they formed a band, On a Friday, named after the only day they were allowed to practice.[6][21] According to Selway, while each member contributed songs in the band's early period, Yorke emerged as the main songwriter.[22]

After leaving Abingdon, Yorke took a gap year and tried to become a professional musician.[7] He held several jobs, including a period selling suits and working in an architect's office, and made a demo tape.[7][20] He was also involved in a serious car accident that influenced the lyrics of later songs, including the Bends B-side "Killer Cars" (1995) and "Airbag" from OK Computer (1997).[23] In the late 1980s, Yorke made a solo album, Dearest, which O'Brien described as similar to the Jesus and Mary Chain, with delay and reverb effects.[12]

On the strength of their first demo, On a Friday were offered a record deal by Island Records, but the members decided they were not ready and wanted to go to university first.[7] Yorke had wanted to apply to St John's to read English at the University of Oxford, but, he said, "I was told I couldn't even apply – I was too thick. Oxford University would have eaten me up and spat me out. It's too rigorous."[24] He also considered studying music, but could not read sheet music.[25]

In late 1988, Yorke left Oxford to study English and fine arts at the University of Exeter. On a Friday entered hiatus aside from rehearsals during breaks.[26] At Exeter, Yorke performed experimental music with a classical ensemble,[27] played in a techno group called Flickernoise,[28] and played with the band Headless Chickens, performing songs including future Radiohead material.[29] He also met his future wife Rachel Owen, and Stanley Donwood, who later produced artwork for Radiohead and Yorke's solo releases.[30][31] According to Yorke, his paintings at Exeter were "shit"; he was rejected by his classmates and "went AWOL for three months".[32] Yorke credited his art school education for preparing him creatively for his later work.[7]

On a Friday resumed activity in 1991 as most of the members were finishing their degrees. Ronan Munro, the editor of the Oxford music magazine Curfew, gave the band their first interview while they were sharing a house in Oxford. He recalled: "Thom wasn't like anyone I'd interviewed before ... He was like 'This is going to happen... Failure is not an option.' ... He wasn't some ranting diva or a megalomaniac, but he was so focused on what he wanted to do."[33]

Career edit

1991–1993: "Creep" and rise to fame edit

In 1991, when Yorke was 22,[24] On a Friday signed to EMI and changed their name to Radiohead. They gained notice with their debut single, "Creep", which appeared on their 1993 debut album, Pablo Honey.[34] Yorke grew tired of "Creep" after it became a hit, and told Rolling Stone in 1993: "It's like it's not our song any more ... It feels like we're doing a cover."[35][36]

According to Yorke, around this time he "hit the self-destruct button pretty quickly". He tried to project himself as a rock star and drank heavily, often becoming too drunk to perform.[37] Yorke said: "When I got back to Oxford I was unbearable ... As soon as you get any success you disappear up your own arse."[38] Years later, Yorke said he had found it difficult to cope with Radiohead's success: "I got angry ... I got more control-freakery. I put my hands on the steering wheel and I was white-knuckled, and I didn't care who I hurt or what I said." He later apologised to his bandmates for his behaviour.[39]

1994–1997: The Bends edit

Paul Q Kolderie, the co-producer of Pablo Honey, observed that Yorke's songwriting improved dramatically after Pablo Honey.[40] O'Brien later said: "After all that touring on Pablo Honey ... the songs that Thom was writing were so much better. Over a period of a year and a half, suddenly, bang."[41]

Recording Radiohead's second album, The Bends (1995), was stressful, as they felt pressured to release a follow-up to "Creep".[42] Yorke in particular struggled. According to the band's co-manager, Chris Hufford, "Thom became totally confused about what he wanted to do, what he was doing in a band and in his life, and that turned into a mistrust of everybody else."[42] The Bends was engineered by Nigel Godrich, who became one of Yorke's longest-running collaborators.[43]

The Bends received critical acclaim and brought Radiohead wider international attention.[44] It influenced a generation of British and Irish alternative rock acts;[45][46] The Observer wrote that it popularised an "angst-laden falsetto" which "eventually coalesced into an entire decade of sound".[47] The American rock band R.E.M., a major influence on Radiohead, picked them as their support act for their European tour.[48] Yorke befriended the R.E.M. singer Michael Stipe, who gave him advice about how to deal with fame.[49] Yorke joined R.E.M. to perform their song "E-Bow the Letter" on several occasions from 1998 to 2004.[50]

1997–1998: OK Computer edit

 
Yorke in 1998

During the production of Radiohead's third album, OK Computer (1997), the members had differing opinions and equal production roles, with Yorke having "the loudest voice", according to O'Brien.[51] OK Computer achieved acclaim and strong sales, establishing Radiohead as one of the leading rock acts of the 1990s.[52]

Yorke struggled with the attention the success brought him, and the stress of the OK Computer tour.[52] Colin Greenwood described the "hundred-yard stare" in Yorke's eyes when performing, and said "he absolutely did not want to be there... You hate having to put your friend through that experience."[53] Yorke said later:

When I was a kid, I always assumed that [fame] was going to answer something – fill a gap. And it does the absolute opposite. It happens with everybody. I was so driven for so long, like a fucking animal, and then I woke up one day and someone had given me a little gold plate for OK Computer and I couldn't deal with it for ages.[54]

In 1997, Yorke provided backing vocals for a cover of the 1975 Pink Floyd song "Wish You Were Here" with Sparklehorse.[55] The following year, he duetted on "El President" with Isabel Monteiro of Drugstore,[55] and sang on the Unkle track "Rabbit in Your Headlights", a collaboration with DJ Shadow. Pitchfork cited "Rabbit in Your Headlights" as a "turning point" for Yorke, foreshadowing his work in experimental electronic music.[55]

For the soundtrack of the 1998 film Velvet Goldmine, Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Andy Mackay of Roxy Music and Bernard Butler of Suede formed a band, the Venus in Furs, to cover Roxy Music songs. In 2016, Pitchfork wrote that Yorke "weirdly comes off as the weak link", with understated vocals that did not resemble the Roxy Music singer Bryan Ferry.[55]

1999–2004: Kid A, Amnesiac and Hail to the Thief edit

 
Yorke in 2001

Following the OK Computer tour, Yorke suffered a mental breakdown[52] and found it impossible to write new music.[56] He experienced imposter syndrome, and became self-critical and over-analytical.[57] He was approached to score the 1999 film Fight Club, but declined as he was recovering from stress.[58]

Around this period, acts influenced by Radiohead emerged, such as Travis and Coldplay. Yorke resented them, feeling they had copied him.[59] He said in 2006: "I was really, really upset about it, and I tried my absolute best not to be, but yeah, it was kind of like— that sort of thing of missing the point completely."[60] Godrich felt Yorke was oversensitive and told him he did not invent "guys singing in falsetto with an acoustic guitar".[59] He saw Yorke's resentment as "a byproduct of being so focused on what he wanted to do that he figures he's the only person that's ever had that idea".[59]

To recuperate, Yorke moved to Cornwall and spent time walking the cliffs, writing and drawing. He restricted his songwriting to piano; the first song he wrote was "Everything in Its Right Place".[54] During this period, Yorke listened almost exclusively to the electronic music of artists such as Aphex Twin and Autechre, saying: "It was refreshing because the music was all structures and had no human voices in it. But I felt just as emotional about it as I'd ever felt about guitar music."[52] Yorke gradually relaxed and came to enjoy his work again.[57]

Radiohead took Yorke's electronic influences to their next albums Kid A (2000) and Amnesiac (2001), processing vocals, obscuring lyrics, and using electronic instruments such as synthesisers, drum machines and samplers. The albums divided listeners, but were commercially successful and later attracted wide acclaim. At the turn of the decade, Kid A was named the best album of the 2000s by Rolling Stone and Pitchfork.[61][62]

In 2000, Yorke contributed vocals to three tracks on the PJ Harvey album Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea,[55] and duetted with Björk on her song "I've Seen It All" from her soundtrack album Selmasongs.[55] Radiohead released their sixth album, Hail to the Thief, a blend of rock and electronic music, in 2003. Yorke wrote many of its lyrics in response to the war on terror and the resurgence of right-wing politics in the west after the turn of the millennium,[63] and his shifting worldview after becoming a father.[64] Yorke and Jonny Greenwood contributed to the 2004 Band Aid 20 single "Do They Know It's Christmas?", produced by Godrich.[65]

2004–2008: The Eraser and In Rainbows edit

Yorke recorded his debut solo album, The Eraser, during Radiohead's 2004 hiatus.[66] It comprises electronics songs recorded and edited with computers.[43] Yorke, who formed Radiohead while the members were in school, said he was curious to try working alone.[66] He stressed that Radiohead were not splitting up and that the album was made "with their blessing".[67] According to Jonny Greenwood, Radiohead were happy for Yorke to make the album: "He'd go mad if every time he wrote a song it had to go through the Radiohead consensus."[68] Godrich said that working with Yorke on The Eraser was easier than working with Radiohead, as "when we were in a room when it's with Radiohead ... I'm trying to manage a relationship between [Yorke] and the band and it's me butting heads with him and trying to work on behalf of the band."[69]

The Eraser was released in 2006 on the independent label XL Recordings,[67] backed by the singles "Harrowdown Hill", which reached number 23 in the UK Singles Chart,[70] and "Analyse".[71] It reached the top ten in the UK, Ireland, United States, Canada and Australia, and was nominated for the 2006 Mercury Prize[72] and the 2007 Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album.[73] It was followed by a B-sides compilation, Spitting Feathers,[74] and a remix album by various artists, The Eraser Rmxs.[75]

In 2007, Radiohead independently released their seventh album, In Rainbows, as a pay-what-you-want download, the first for a major act. The release made headlines worldwide and sparked debate about the implications for the music industry.[76] Yorke described it as a statement of Radiohead's belief in the value of music and a "contract of faith" between musicians and audiences.[57]

In the same year, Yorke sang on the Modeselektor track "The White Flash" from the album Happy Birthday!. Pitchfork likened it to The Eraser and wrote that Yorke's vocals "work so perfectly that it feels like this is his band".[55] Yorke also sang backing vocals on Björk's 2008 charity single "Náttúra".[55]

2009–2010: Atoms for Peace edit

 
Yorke performing at Glastonbury Festival 2010

In 2009, Yorke released a cover of the Miracle Legion song "All for the Best" with his brother, Andy, for the compilation Ciao My Shining Star: The Songs of Mark Mulcahy.[77] In July, Yorke performed solo at the Latitude Festival in Suffolk[78] and released a double-A-side single, "FeelingPulledApartByHorses/TheHollowEarth".[79] He also contributed the track "Hearing Damage" to the Twilight Saga: New Moon film soundtrack.[80]

That year, Yorke formed a new band, Atoms for Peace, to perform songs from The Eraser.[81] Alongside Yorke, the band comprises Godrich on keyboards and guitar, the bassist Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, the drummer Joey Waronker and the percussionist Mauro Refosco of Forro in the Dark.[82] Yorke said: "God love 'em but I've been playing with [Radiohead] since I was 16, and to do this was quite a trip ... It felt like we'd knocked a hole in a wall, and we should just fucking go through it."[81] Atoms for Peace performed eight North American shows in 2010.[83] They went unnamed for early performances, billed as "Thom Yorke" or "??????".[84] In June, Yorke performed a surprise set at Glastonbury Festival with Jonny Greenwood, performing Eraser and Radiohead songs.[85]

In the same year, Yorke provided vocals for "...And the World Laughs with You" from the Flying Lotus album Cosmogramma,[55] and for "Shipwreck" and "This" on the Modeselektor album Monkeytown.[86] Along with Damien Rice and Philip Glass, he contributed to the soundtrack for the 2010 documentary When the Dragon Swallowed the Sun.[87]

2011–2013: The King of Limbs and Amok edit

 
Yorke performing with Atoms for Peace in 2013

In 2011, Radiohead released their eighth album, The King of Limbs, which Yorke described as "an expression of physical movements and wildness".[88] Yorke sought to move further from conventional recording methods.[89] The music video for "Lotus Flower", featuring Yorke's erratic dancing, became an internet meme.[90] By 2011, Radiohead had sold more than 30 million albums.[91]

In the same year, Yorke collaborated with the electronic artists Burial and Four Tet on "Ego" and "Mirror",[92] and collaborated with Greenwood and the American rapper MF Doom on "Retarded Fren".[93] In 2012, Yorke provided vocals for "Electric Candyman" on the Flying Lotus album Until the Quiet Comes.[55] He also remixed the single "Hold On" by the electronic musician Sbtrkt, under the name Sisi BakBak. His identity was not confirmed until September 2014.[1]

In February 2013, Atoms for Peace released an album, Amok,[94] followed by a tour of Europe, the US and Japan.[95] Amok received generally positive reviews,[96] though some critics felt it was too similar to Yorke's solo work.[97][98][99] That year, Yorke and Jonny Greenwood contributed music to The UK Gold, a documentary about tax avoidance. The soundtrack, described by Rolling Stone as a series of "minimalist soundscapes", was released free in February 2015 through the online music platform SoundCloud.[100]

2014–2017: Tomorrow's Modern Boxes and A Moon Shaped Pool edit

Yorke released his second solo album, Tomorrow's Modern Boxes, via BitTorrent on 26 September 2014. It became the most torrented album of 2014 (excluding piracy),[101] with more than a million downloads in its first six days.[102] Yorke and Godrich hoped to use the BitTorrent release to hand "some control of internet commerce back to people who are creating the work".[103] In December 2014, Yorke released the album on the online music platform Bandcamp along with a new track, "Youwouldn'tlikemewhenI'mangry".[104]

In 2015, Yorke contributed a soundtrack, Subterranea, to an installation of Radiohead artwork, The Panic Office, in Sydney, Australia. The soundtrack was composed of field recordings made in the English countryside and played on speakers at different heights with different frequency ranges. The radio station Triple J described it as similar to the ambient sections of Tomorrow's Modern Boxes, with some digitally spoken sections similar to "Fitter Happier" from OK Computer. The music was not released.[105] In July 2015, Yorke joined the band Portishead at the Latitude Festival to perform their song "The Rip".[106]

Yorke composed music for a 2015 production of Harold Pinter's 1971 play Old Times by the Roundabout Theater Company in New York City. The director described the music as "primeval, unusual ... the sort of neurosis within [Yorke's] music certainly has elucidated elements of the compulsive repetition of the play."[107] That year, Yorke performed with Godrich and the audiovisual artist Tarik Barri at the Latitude Festival in the UK and the Summer Sonic Festival in Japan.[108] Radiohead released their ninth album, A Moon Shaped Pool, on 8 May 2016.[109] Yorke contributed vocals and appeared in the video for "Beautiful People" on Mark Pritchard's 2016 album Under the Sun.[110][111]

2018–2019: Suspiria edit

Yorke's first feature film soundtrack, Suspiria, composed for the 2018 horror film, was released on 26 October 2018 by XL.[112] It was the first Yorke project since The Bends not to feature production from his longtime collaborator Nigel Godrich;[113] Instead, it was produced by Yorke and Sam Petts-Davies. Suspiria features the London Contemporary Orchestra and Choir, and Yorke's son, Noah, on drums.[114] Yorke cited inspiration from the 1982 Blade Runner soundtrack[115] and music from Suspiria's 1977 Berlin setting, such as krautrock.[116] The lyrics do not follow the film narrative and were influenced by discourse surrounding President Donald Trump and Brexit.[58][117] "Suspirium" was nominated for Best Song Written for Visual Media at the 2020 Grammy Awards.[118]

Yorke performed two shows in 2017, and toured Europe and the US in 2018.[119][120] That year, Yorke and the artist Tarik Barri created an audiovisual exhibition, "City Rats", commissioned by the Institute for Sound and Music in Berlin.[121] I See You, a limited-edition zine edited by Yorke with Crack Magazine, was published in September 2018, with profits donated to Greenpeace.[122] Yorke contributed music to the 2018 short films Why Can't We Get Along?[123] and Time of Day[124] for the fashion label Rag & Bone.[125]

Yorke was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Radiohead on 29 March 2019.[126] He did not attend the induction ceremony, citing cultural differences between the UK and America and his negative experience of the Brit Awards, "which is like this sort of drunken car crash that you don't want to get involved with".[127]

2019–2020: Anima edit

Yorke's third solo album, Anima, was released on 27 June 2019, accompanied by a short film directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.[128] Anima became Yorke's first number-one album on the Billboard Dance/Electronic Albums chart.[129] At the 2020 Grammy Awards, it was nominated for Best Alternative Music Album and Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package; the Anima film was nominated for the Grammy for Best Music Film.[130] The album was followed by Not the News Rmx EP, comprising an extended version of the track "Not the News" plus remixes by various artists.[131] A solo tour set to begin in March 2020 was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[132]

For the 2019 film Motherless Brooklyn, Yorke wrote "Daily Battles", with horns by his Atoms for Peace bandmate Flea. The director, Edward Norton, enlisted the jazz musician Wynton Marsalis to rearrange the song as a ballad reminiscent of 1950s Miles Davis.[133] It was shortlisted for Best Original Song at the 92nd Academy Awards.[134] Yorke's first classical composition, "Don't Fear the Light", written for the piano duo Katia and Marielle Labeque, debuted in April 2019.[135]

In April 2020, Yorke performed a new song from his home, "Plasticine Figures", for The Tonight Show.[136] In the same year, he collaborated with Four Tet and Burial again on "Her Revolution" and "His Rope",[92] and remixed "Isolation Theme" by the electronic musician Clark.[137] Yorke said his remix mirrored the COVID-19 lockdowns, "entering a new type of silence".[137]

2021–present: the Smile edit

 
Yorke performing with the Smile in 2022

In March 2021, Yorke contributed music to shows by the Japanese fashion designer Jun Takahashi, including a remixed version of "Creep".[138] That August, he contributed two remixes of "Gazzillion Ear" by the rapper MF Doom.[139]

In May, Yorke debuted a new band, the Smile, with Jonny Greenwood and the jazz drummer Tom Skinner, produced by Godrich.[140] Greenwood said the project was a way for him and Yorke to work together during the COVID-19 lockdowns.[141] The Smile made their surprise debut in a performance streamed by Glastonbury Festival on May 22, with Yorke singing and playing guitar, bass, Moog synthesiser and Rhodes piano.[142] The Guardian critic Alexis Petridis said the Smile "sound like a simultaneously more skeletal and knottier version of Radiohead", exploring more progressive rock influences with unusual time signatures, complex riffs and "hard-driving" motorik psychedelia.[143]

In October 2021, Yorke performed a Smile song, "Free in the Knowledge", at the Letters Live event at the Royal Albert Hall, London.[144] In the same month, Yorke and the Radiohead cover artist Stanley Donwood curated an exhibition of Kid A artwork and lyrics at Christie's headquarters in London, ahead of reissued package of the Kid A and Amnesia albums, Kid A Mnesia.[145] The pair also contributed lyrics and artwork to Kid A Mnesia Exhibition, a free digital experience for PlayStation 5, macOS and Windows.[146]

On 9 April 2022, Yorke performed a solo concert at the Zeltbühne festival in Zermatt, Switzerland, playing songs from his work with Radiohead, the Smile and Unkle, and his solo records.[147] In May 2022, the Smile released their debut album, A Light for Attracting Attention, and began a European tour.[148] Yorke wrote two songs, "5.17" and "That's How Horses Are", for the sixth series of the television drama Peaky Blinders, broadcast in 2022.[149] He executive-produced Sus Dog (2023), the tenth album by Clark. Yorke acted as a mentor for Clark's vocals and contributed vocals and bass.[150]

In September 2023, Yorke and Donwood exhibited a selection of artwork, The Crow Flies, in London. The paintings, based on Islamic pirate maps and 1960s US military topographic charts, began as work for A Light For Attracting Attention.[151] The second Smile album, Wall of Eyes, was released in January 2024, with a European tour to follow in March.[152] Yorke composed the score for the film Confidenza by the Italian filmmaker Daniele Luchetti, which will premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in January 2024.[153]

Artistry edit

 
Yorke performing with Atoms for Peace in 2013

Yorke writes the first versions of most Radiohead songs, after which they are developed harmonically by Jonny Greenwood before the other band members develop their parts.[154] His solo work comprises mainly electronic music.[155] Stereogum characterised it as "largely interior", "frigid" and "beat-driven", unlike the "wide-open horizons" of Radiohead songs.[156]

Yorke said the nature of being a creative person was "to retain a beginner's mind. The search is the point. The flailing around is the point. The process is the point."[157] Yorke said he used to be more controlling in the studio, but learnt to be more relaxed and open to new ideas.[158] He likened the creative process to surfing: "You can sit out there on a board for ages waiting for the right wave to come along. You can't get angry about it. You know it will happen eventually and you start to understand the waiting itself might be part of it."[158]

Yorke has worked with the producer Nigel Godrich on most of his projects, including Radiohead, Atoms for Peace, the Smile and most of his solo work.[159] Yorke credits Godrich with helping edit his work, identifying which parts need improvement and which have potential.[159] He said they sometimes had arguments that last for days, but that they always resolve their differences, and likened him to a brother.[24] Godrich said the pair were "very productive together and that's a really precious and important thing and it changes within the context of whatever we're doing".[160]

Musicianship edit

Yorke is a multi-instrumentalist, and plays instruments including guitar,[161] piano,[162] bass[163] and drums.[164] He played drums for performances of the 2007 Radiohead song "Bangers and Mash".[164] With the Smile, Yorke has used a Fender Mustang bass with a fingerstyle technique.[163]

Yorke uses electronic instruments such as synthesisers, drum machines and sequencers, and electronic techniques including programming, sampling and looping. In 2015, he said: "Really I just enjoy writing words sitting at a piano. I tend to lose interest in the drum machine."[165] According to Godrich, "Thom will sit down and make some crazy, fractured cheese-grater-on-head mayhem on a computer, but at some point he always gets his guitar out to check he can actually play it."[166]

Unlike his bandmate Jonny Greenwood, Yorke does not read sheet music;[167] he said: "You can't express the rhythms properly like that. It's a very ineffective way of doing it, so I've never really bothered picking it up."[168] Explaining why he turned down a request to play piano on the song "Mr. Bellamy" on Paul McCartney's album Memory Almost Full (2007), Yorke said: "The piano playing involved two hands doing things separately. I don't have that skill available. I said to him, 'I strum piano, that's it.'"[162]

Vocals edit

Yorke has one of the widest vocal ranges in popular music.[169] He is known for his falsetto, which Paste described as "sweet", "cautious" and "haunting".[170] Rolling Stone described his voice as a "broad, emotive sweep" with a "high, keening sound".[171] The Guardian described it as "instrument-like" and "spectral", and wrote that it "transcends the egocentric posturing of the indie rock singer stereotype".[111] The music journalist Robert Christgau wrote that Yorke's voice has "a pained, transported intensity, pure up top with hints of hysterical grit below ... Fraught and self-involved with no time for jokes, not asexual but otherwise occupied, and never ever common, this is the idealised voice of a pretentious college boy ... Like it or not the voice is remarkable."[172]

Yorke often manipulates his voice with software and effects, transforming it into a "disembodied instrument".[171] For example, on "Everything in Its Right Place" (2000), his vocals are treated to create a "glitching, stuttering collage".[173] Pitchfork wrote in 2016 that, over the decades, Yorke's voice had evolved from "semi-interesting alt-rocker" to "left-field art-rock demigod" to "electronic grand wizard".[55] In 2006, Yorke said: "It annoys me how pretty my voice is. That sounds incredibly immodest, but it annoys me how polite it can sound when perhaps what I'm singing is deeply acidic."[168] He said he keeps vocals in mind whenever he builds music, no matter the genre, and that he found it difficult to listen to dance music without imagining a voice.[81] In 2023, Yorke said that his vocal range had dropped with age and that he now found "Creep" difficult to sing.[174]

In 2005, readers of Blender and MTV2 voted Yorke the 18th-greatest singer of all time. In 2010, Rolling Stone ranked him the 66th-greatest and wrote that he was one of the most influential singers of his generation, influencing bands such as Muse, Coldplay, Travis and Elbow.[171] In their updated 2023 list, Rolling Stone ranked Yorke the 34th-greatest singer, praising his "genuine edge of alienation".[175]

Lyrics edit

Yorke's early lyrics were personal, but he found that "tortured" lyrics became tired.[158] He said his lyrics were not "some deep heartfelt thing"; instead, he likened them to a collage assembled from images and external sources such as television.[25] From Kid A, he experimented with cutting up words and phrases and assembling them at random.[56] He sometimes chooses words for their sounds rather than their meaning, such as the title phrase of "Myxomatosis" or the repeated phrase "the rain drops" on "Sit Down. Stand Up".[176] A 2021 study found that Yorke had among the largest vocabularies of pop singers, based on the number of different words used in each song.[177]

Yorke deliberately uses cliches, idioms and other common expressions,[178] inspired by the American artist Barbara Kruger.[25] For example, according to the Pitchfork writer Rob Mitchum, the Kid A lyrics feature "hum-drum observations twisted into panic attacks".[179] Another Pitchfork writer, Jayson Greene, said the approach suggested "a mind consumed by meaningless data".[180] Yorke said he hoped to capture the experience people have every day of trying to make emotional sense of the words and images that surround them,[158] and that "lyrics should be a series of windows opening rather than shutting, which is incredibly hard to do".[57] Colin Greenwood described his lyrics as "a running commentary on what's happening in the world ... like a shutter snapping in succession".[176]

The New Republic writer Ryan Kearney speculated that Yorke's use of common expressions, which he described as "Radioheadisms", was an attempt "to sap our common tongue of meaning and expose the vapidity of everyday discourse".[178] Kearney felt the approach had become a crutch for Yorke, creating a "senseless mush". He wrote in 2016 that he was "the most overrated lyricist in music today", and that fans, critics and academics had "taken the bait and delivered one overwrought interpretation after another".[178]

Many of Yorke's lyrics express paranoia. The Guardian critic Alexis Petridis described "what you might call the Yorke worldview: that life is a waking nightmare and everything is completely and perhaps irreparably screwed".[181] According to Yorke, many of his lyrics are motivated by anger, expressing his political and environmental concerns[88] and written as "a constant response to doublethink".[182] The lyrics of the 2003 Radiohead album Hail to the Thief dealt with what Yorke called the "ignorance and intolerance and panic and stupidity" following the 2000 election of US President George W. Bush and the unfolding war on terror.[183] Yorke wrote his 2006 single "Harrowdown Hill" about David Kelly, the British weapons expert and whistleblower.[184] In a 2008 television performance of "House of Cards", Yorke dedicated the "denial, denial" refrain to Bush for rejecting the Kyoto Protocol, an international treaty to reduce greenhouse gases.[185] The 2011 single "The Daily Mail" attacks the right-wing Daily Mail newspaper.[186]

In a 2015 interview with the activist and writer George Monbiot, Yorke said: "In the 60s, you could write songs that were like calls to arms, and it would work ... It's much harder to do that now. If I was going to write a protest song about climate change in 2015, it would be shit. It's not like one song or one piece of art or one book is going to change someone's mind."[187] Working on Radiohead's ninth album, A Moon Shaped Pool, Yorke worried that political songs alienated some listeners, but decided it was better than writing "another lovey-dovey song about nothing".[188] Greene wrote that Yorke's lyrics on A Moon Shaped Pool were less cynical, conveying wonder and amazement.[180] Many critics felt the lyrics might address Yorke's separation from Rachel Owen, his partner of more than 20 years.[189][190][191][192] However, Yorke denied writing biographically, saying he instead writes "spasmodic" lyrics based on imagery.[193]

Dance edit

Yorke often incorporates dance into his performances, described by the Sunday Times as his "on-stage signature".[193] He began dancing on stage after Radiohead released Kid A in 2000, as many songs did not require him to play guitar.[193] The New York Times contrasted Yorke's "tortured" 1990s appearance with his later "looser", more comfortable performances.[57] Yorke said he enjoyed "messing around with the idea of being the rock star or the uptight [1990s] guy. I can choose to do something completely different and be stupid or jump around."[57]

Yorke's dancing features in music videos for songs such as "Lotus Flower"[194] and "Ingenue",[195] and the short film Anima.[196] Critics have described it as "erratic",[194] "flailing"[197] and unconventional.[198] In 2011, Rolling Stone readers voted Yorke their 10th-favourite dancing musician.[198]

Influences edit

As a child, Yorke's favourite artists included Queen,[13] R.E.M., Siouxsie and the Banshees, Joy Division and Bob Dylan were important to him as a teenager.[199] He initially attempted to emulate singers including Michael Stipe, Morrissey and David Sylvian.[13] He also wrote that Mark Mulcahy of Miracle Legion had affected him "a great deal" at this time: "It was the voice of someone who was only truly happy when he was singing ... It changed the way I thought about songs and singing."[200]

When he was 16, Yorke sent a demo to a music magazine, who wrote that he sounded like Neil Young. Unfamiliar with Young, Yorke purchased his 1970 album After the Gold Rush,[201] which gave him the confidence to reveal "softness and naiveté" in vocals.[13] Yorke also credited Young as a lyrical influence.[202] He said: "It was his attitude toward the way he laid songs down. It's always about laying down whatever is in your head at the time and staying completely true to that, no matter what it is."[201] Yorke said that Jeff Buckley had given him the confidence to use falsetto and be vulnerable in his singing.[203][13]

Yorke cited the Pixies,[204] Björk and PJ Harvey as artists who "changed his life",[205] and in 2006 he told Pitchfork that Radiohead had "ripped off R.E.M. blind for years".[206] He cited Stipe as his favourite lyricist: "I loved the way he would take an emotion and then take a step back from it and in doing so make it so much more powerful."[158] The chorus of "How to Disappear Completely" from Kid A was inspired by Stipe, who advised Yorke to relieve tour stress by repeating to himself: "I'm not here, this isn't happening."[207] Yorke cited the Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante as an influence on his guitar playing on In Rainbows,[161] and Scott Walker as an influence on his vocals and lyrics.[208]

After OK Computer, Yorke and Radiohead incorporated influences from electronic artists such as Aphex Twin and Autechre.[52] In 2013, Yorke cited Aphex Twin as his biggest influence, saying: "He burns a heavy shadow ... Aphex opened up another world that didn't involve my fucking electric guitar ... I hated all the music that was around Radiohead at the time, it was completely fucking meaningless. I hated the Britpop thing and what was happening in America, but Aphex was totally beautiful."[209]

Artwork edit

 
The Radiohead cover artist Stanley Donwood (left) and Yorke promoting The King of Limbs in 2011

Since the EP My Iron Lung (1994), Yorke has created artwork for Radiohead and his other projects with Stanley Donwood. The pair met as art students at the University of Exeter. Donwood said his first impression of Yorke was that he was "mouthy. Pissed off. Someone I could work with."[210] Yorke is credited for artwork alongside Donwood as the White Chocolate Farm, Tchock, Dr. Tchock and similar abbreviations.[211]

Whereas Donwood described himself as having a tendency towards "detailing and perfectionism", he said Yorke is "completely opposed, fucking everything up ... I do something, then he fucks it up, then I fuck up what he's done ... and we keep doing that until we're happy with the result. It's a competition to see who 'wins' the painting, which one of us takes possession of it in an artistic way."[212] The artist Tarik Barri provides live visuals for Yorke's solo and multimedia projects and shows with Atoms for Peace.[213]

Politics and activism edit

Music industry edit

Yorke has been critical of the music industry and has pioneered alternative release platforms with Radiohead and his solo work. Following Radiohead's tour of America in 1993, he became disenchanted with being "right at the sharp end of the sexy, sassy, MTV eye-candy lifestyle" he felt he was helping sell.[214] After a 1995 Melody Maker article suggested that Yorke would kill himself like the Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain, Yorke developed an aversion to the British music press.[215] In November 1995, NME covered an incident in which Yorke became sick and collapsed on stage at a show in Munich, and titled the story "Thommy's Temper Tantrum". Yorke said it was the most hurtful thing anyone had written about him, and refused to give interviews to NME for five years.[216]

The 1998 documentary Meeting People Is Easy portrays Yorke's disaffection with the music industry and press during Radiohead's OK Computer tour.[21] After Radiohead's fourth album, Kid A (2000), was leaked via the peer-to-peer filesharing software Napster weeks before release, Yorke told Time he felt Napster "encourages enthusiasm for music in a way that the music industry has long forgotten to do. I think anybody sticking two fingers up at the whole fucking thing is wonderful as far as I'm concerned."[217] In 2001, Yorke criticised the American live music industry, describing it as a monopoly controlled by Clear Channel Entertainment and Ticketmaster.[218]

After Radiohead's record contract with EMI ended with the release of Hail to the Thief (2003), Yorke told Time: "I like the people at our record company, but the time is at hand when you have to ask why anyone needs one. And, yes, it probably would give us some perverse pleasure to say 'Fuck you' to this decaying business model."[219] In 2006, he called major record labels "stupid little boys' games – especially really high up".[66]

Radiohead independently released their 2007 album In Rainbows as a download for which listeners could choose their price.[76] Yorke said the "most exciting" part of the release was the removal of the barrier between artist and audience.[220] However, in 2013, Yorke told the Guardian he feared the In Rainbows release had instead played into the hands of content providers such as Apple and Google: "They have to keep commodifying things to keep the share price up, but in doing so they have made all content, including music and newspapers, worthless, in order to make their billions. And this is what we want?"[158] In 2015, he criticised YouTube for "seizing control" of contributor content, likening it to Nazis looting art during World War II.[221]

Spotify edit

In 2013, Yorke and Godrich made headlines for their criticism of the music streaming service Spotify, and removed Atoms for Peace and Yorke's solo music from the service.[222] In a series of tweets, Yorke wrote: "Make no mistake, new artists you discover on Spotify will not get paid. Meanwhile, shareholders will shortly be rolling in it ... New artists get paid fuck-all with this model." Yorke called Spotify "the last gasp of the old industry", accusing it of only benefiting major labels with large back catalogues, and encouraged artists to build their own "direct connections" with audiences instead.[220]

Brian Message, a partner at Radiohead's management company,[223] disagreed with Yorke, noting that Spotify pays 70 percent of its revenue back to the music industry. He said that "Thom's issue was that the pipe has become so jammed ... We encourage all of our artists to take a long-term approach ... Plan for the long term, understand that it's a tough game."[224] Yorke's music was re-added to Spotify in December 2017.[225]

For Yorke's second solo album, Tomorrow's Modern Boxes (2014), released via BitTorrent, he and Godrich expressed their hope to "hand some control of internet back to people who are creating the work ... bypassing the self-elected gatekeepers".[226] Asked if the release had been a success, Yorke said: "No, not exactly ... I wanted to show that, in theory, today one could follow the entire chain of record production, from start to finish, on his own. But in practice it is very different. We cannot be burdened with all of the responsibilities of the record label."[221]

Climate change edit

In 2000, during the recording of Kid A, Yorke became "obsessed" with the Worldwatch Institute website, "which was full of scary statistics about icecaps melting and weather patterns changing".[227] He said he became involved in the movement to halt climate change after having children and "waking up every night just terrified".[228]

Yorke has been a supporter of Friends of the Earth and their Big Ask Campaign since 2003. He and Jonny Greenwood headlined the Big Ask Live, a 2006 benefit concert to persuade the government to enact a new law on climate change.[229] In a Guardian article, Yorke wrote:

At first I told Friends of the Earth that I was absolutely the wrong person to be associated with their campaign. I've based my life on touring, and the rock industry is a high energy-consuming industry. But they persuaded me that that was exactly why it was a good idea for me to be involved; that they didn't want to present a holier-than-thou message. Initially, I attracted some criticism, but you just have to accept it, drink some cold water and get on with your life.[227]

In 2006, Yorke refused an invitation from Friends of the Earth to meet the British prime minister, Tony Blair, to discuss climate change. Yorke said that Blair had "no environmental credentials" and that his spin doctors would manipulate the meeting.[230] He told the Guardian that Blair's advisers had wanted to vet Yorke beforehand, and that Friends of the Earth would lose access if Yorke said "the wrong thing" afterwards, which he equated to blackmail.[229]

In 2008, Radiohead commissioned a study to reduce the carbon expended on tour. Based on the findings, they chose to play at venues supported by public transport, made deals with trucking companies to reduce emissions, used new low-energy LED lighting and encouraged festivals to offer reusable plastics.[227][231] That year, Yorke guest-edited a special climate change edition of Observer Magazine and wrote: "Unlike pessimists such as James Lovelock, I don't believe we are all doomed ... You should never give up hope."[227]

In 2009, Yorke performed via Skype at the premier of the environmentalist documentary The Age of Stupid,[232] and gained access to the COP 15 climate change talks in Copenhagen by posing as a journalist.[233] In 2010, he performed a benefit concert at the Cambridge Corn Exchange for the British Green Party[234] and supported the 10:10 campaign for climate change mitigation.[235] The following year, he joined the maiden voyage of Rainbow Warrior III, a yacht used by Greenpeace to monitor damage to the environment.[228]

Yorke was one of several celebrities who endorsed the parliamentary candidacy of the Green candidate Caroline Lucas at the 2015 UK general election.[236] In December 2015, he performed at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris at a benefit concert in aid of 350.org, an environmental organisation raising awareness about climate change.[237] His performance was included on the live album Pathway to Paris, released in July 2016.[238] Yorke contributed an electronic track, "Hands Off the Antarctic", to a 2018 Greenpeace campaign.[239]

2017 Israel concert edit

In April 2017, more than 50 prominent figures, including the musicians Roger Waters and Thurston Moore, the rights activist Desmond Tutu and the filmmaker Ken Loach, signed a petition urging Radiohead to cancel a performance in Israel as part of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, a cultural boycott of Israel.[240] In a Rolling Stone interview, Yorke said of the criticism: "I just can't understand why going to play a rock show or going to lecture at a university [is a problem to them] ... It's really upsetting that artists I respect think we are not capable of making a moral decision ourselves after all these years. They talk down to us and I just find it mind-boggling that they think they have the right to do that."[241]

Yorke said that the petitioners had not contacted him. This was disputed by Waters, who wrote in an open letter in Rolling Stone that he had attempted to contact Yorke several times.[242] In a statement, Yorke responded: "Playing in a country isn't the same as endorsing the government. Music, art and academia is about crossing borders not building them, about open minds not closed ones, about shared humanity, dialogue and freedom of expression."[243]

Other issues edit

In 1999, Yorke travelled to the G8 summit to support the Jubilee 2000 movement calling for cancellation of third-world debt.[244] In a 2003 Guardian article criticising the World Trade Organization, he wrote: "The west is creating an extremely dangerous economic, environmental and humanitarian time bomb. We are living beyond our means."[245] In 2005, he performed at an all-night vigil for the Trade Justice Movement, calling for a better trade deal for poor countries.[246]

In 2002, Yorke performed at the Bridge School Benefit, a charity concert organised by the Canadian songwriter Neil Young, one of Yorke's influences. His set included a cover of Young's 1970 song "After the Gold Rush", performed on the piano Young wrote it on.[247] In September 2004, Yorke was a key speaker at a Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament rally outside the Fylingdales air base in Yorkshire, protesting Tony Blair's support of the Bush administration's plans for the "Star Wars" missile defence system.[248] In 2011, alongside Robert Del Naja of Massive Attack and Tim Goldsworthy of Unkle, Yorke played a secret DJ set for a group of Occupy activists in the abandoned offices of the investment bank UBS.[249]

To celebrate the 2008 election of US president Barack Obama, Yorke released a remixed version of his single "Harrowdown Hill" as a free download.[250] After the election of Donald Trump in 2016, he tweeted lyrics from Radiohead's single "Burn the Witch", interpreted as a criticism of Trump's policies.[251][252] In June 2016, following the Orlando nightclub shooting in Florida, Yorke was one of nearly 200 music industry figures to sign an open letter published in Billboard urging the United States Congress to impose stricter gun control.[253][254] He opposed Brexit,[255][256] and in March 2019 joined the People's Vote march calling for a second referendum.[257]

Yorke is vegetarian.[187] In a 2005 film for the animal rights foundation Animal Aid, he said: "Society deems it necessary to create this level of suffering in order for [people] to eat food that they don't need ... You should at least be aware of what you're doing rather than assuming that that's your right as a human being to do it."[258]

Personal life edit

For 23 years, Yorke was in a relationship with the artist and lecturer Rachel Owen, whom he met while studying at the University of Exeter.[229] In 2012, Rolling Stone reported that Owen and Yorke were not married.[89] However, The Times later found that they had married in a secret ceremony in Oxfordshire in May 2003.[259] Their son, Noah, was born in 2001, and their daughter, Agnes, in 2004.[229]

On Yorke's 2018 soundtrack album Suspiria, Agnes collaborated on the artwork and Noah played drums on two tracks.[260] In September 2021, Noah released a song, "Trying Too Hard (Lullaby)". NME likened its "ghostly" arrangement to Radiohead's album In Rainbows.[261] Noah has since released several songs and is due to release an EP, Cerebral Key.[262] He also performs with James Knott as the noise duo Hex Girlfriend.[263]

In August 2015, Yorke and Owen announced that they had separated amicably.[264] Owen died from cancer on 18 December 2016, aged 48.[265] In September 2020, Yorke married the Italian actress Dajana Roncione in Bagheria, Sicily.[266] Roncione appears in the video for the Radiohead song "Lift" and Yorke's short film Anima.[267] They live in Oxford.[25]

Yorke practises meditation.[268] He has suffered from anxiety and depression, which he treats with exercise, yoga and reading.[269] While recording in California with Atoms for Peace, he took up surfing, which he said taught him patience in creativity.[158] His only sibling, his younger brother Andy, was the singer of the band Unbelievable Truth from 1993 until 2000.[270] In 2023, a species of fossil stingray from Italy was named Dasyomyliobatis thomyorkei in honor of Yorke.[271]

Awards and nominations edit

See also: List of awards and nominations received by Radiohead
Award Year Work Category Result Ref.
A2IM Libera Awards 2020 Himself Marketing Genius Nominated [272]
Anima Best Dance/Electronic Album Nominated
Brit Awards 2007 Himself British Male Solo Artist Nominated [273]
Chicago Film Critics Association Award 2018 Suspiria Best Original Score Nominated [274]
David di Donatello 2020 Suspiria Best Score Nominated
Denmark GAFFA Awards 1998 Himself Best Foreign Songwriter Nominated [275]
2001 Best Foreign Male Act Nominated
2004 Nominated
2006 Nominated
The Eraser Best Foreign Album Nominated
Grammy Awards 2007 The Eraser Best Alternative Music Album Nominated
2020 Anima Best Alternative Music Album Nominated
Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package Nominated
Best Music Film Nominated
"Suspirium" Best Song Written for Visual Media Nominated
Libera Awards 2020 Anima Best Dance/Electronic Record Nominated [276]
Marketing Genius Nominated
Mercury Prize 2006 The Eraser Album of the Year Nominated [277]
NME Awards 2008 Himself Hero of the Year Nominated [278]
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association 2018 Suspiria Best Score Nominated
UK Music Video Awards 2019 Anima Best Special Video Project Nominated [279]
Best Production Design in a Video Nominated
Best Choreography in a Video Won
2020 "Last I Heard (...He Was Circling the Drain)" Best Alternative Video - UK Nominated [280]
Žebřík Music Awards 2000 Himself Best International Male Nominated [281]
2001 Nominated
2003 Nominated
2005 Nominated [282]

Solo discography edit

Main article: Thom Yorke discography
See also: Radiohead discography, Atoms for Peace discography, and The Smile discography

Studio albums edit

Film soundtracks edit

  • When the Dragon Swallowed the Sun (2010; additional music only)
  • The UK Gold (2013; with Robert Del Naja)
  • Why Can't We Get Along (2018; Rag & Bone short film)
  • Time of Day (2018; Rag & Bone short film)
  • Suspiria (2018)
  • Confidenza (2024)

Albums produced edit

See also edit

References edit

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thom, yorke, confused, with, yorke, york, thomas, edward, yorke, born, october, 1968, english, musician, main, vocalist, songwriter, rock, band, radiohead, multi, instrumentalist, mainly, plays, guitar, keyboards, noted, falsetto, been, described, rolling, sto. Not to be confused with Tom Yorke or Tom York Thomas Edward Yorke born 7 October 1968 is an English musician who is the main vocalist and songwriter of the rock band Radiohead A multi instrumentalist he mainly plays guitar and keyboards and is noted for his falsetto He has been described by Rolling Stone as one of the greatest and most influential singers of his generation Thom YorkeYorke in 2022Background informationBirth nameThomas Edward YorkeAlso known asSisi Bakbak 1 Tchock 2 The White Chocolate Farm Zachariah Wildwood ThmxBorn 1968 10 07 7 October 1968 age 55 Wellingborough Northamptonshire EnglandGenresAlternative rockelectronica 3 experimental rock 4 Occupation s Singer songwriter composerInstrument s Vocals guitar keyboards bassYears active1985 presentLabelsXLMember ofRadiohead The SmileFormerly ofAtoms for PeaceSpouse s Rachel Owen m 2003 sep 2015 wbr Dajana Roncione m 2020 wbr Yorke formed Radiohead with schoolmates at Abingdon School in Oxfordshire Their 1992 debut single Creep made Yorke a celebrity and Radiohead went on to achieve critical acclaim and sales of more than 30 million albums Yorke s early influences included alternative rock acts such as Pixies and R E M With Radiohead s fourth album Kid A 2000 Yorke moved into electronic music influenced by Warp acts such as Aphex Twin With the artist Stanley Donwood Yorke creates artwork for Radiohead albums and his other projects He often incorporates erratic dancing into his performances Yorke s solo work comprises mainly electronic music His debut solo album The Eraser was released in 2006 To perform it live in 2009 he formed a new band Atoms for Peace with musicians including the Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea and the Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich They released an album Amok in 2013 Yorke s second solo album Tomorrow s Modern Boxes was released in 2014 followed by Anima in 2019 In 2021 Yorke debuted a new band the Smile with the Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood and the jazz drummer Tom Skinner Yorke has collaborated with artists including PJ Harvey Bjork Flying Lotus and Modeselektor and has composed for film and theatre His first feature film soundtrack Suspiria was released in 2018 Yorke is an activist on behalf of human rights animal rights environmental and anti war causes and his lyrics incorporate political themes He has been critical of the music industry particularly of major labels and streaming services such as Spotify With Radiohead and his solo work he has employed alternative release platforms such as pay what you want and BitTorrent He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Radiohead in 2019 Contents 1 Early life 1 1 1985 1991 On a Friday 2 Career 2 1 1991 1993 Creep and rise to fame 2 2 1994 1997 The Bends 2 3 1997 1998 OK Computer 2 4 1999 2004 Kid A Amnesiac and Hail to the Thief 2 5 2004 2008 The Eraser and In Rainbows 2 6 2009 2010 Atoms for Peace 2 7 2011 2013 The King of Limbs and Amok 2 8 2014 2017 Tomorrow s Modern Boxes and A Moon Shaped Pool 2 9 2018 2019 Suspiria 2 10 2019 2020 Anima 2 11 2021 present the Smile 3 Artistry 3 1 Musicianship 3 2 Vocals 3 3 Lyrics 3 4 Dance 3 5 Influences 3 6 Artwork 4 Politics and activism 4 1 Music industry 4 1 1 Spotify 4 2 Climate change 4 3 2017 Israel concert 4 4 Other issues 5 Personal life 6 Awards and nominations 7 Solo discography 7 1 Studio albums 7 2 Film soundtracks 7 3 Albums produced 8 See also 9 References 9 1 Sources 10 External linksEarly life editYorke was born on 7 October 1968 in Wellingborough Northamptonshire He was born with a paralysed left eye and underwent five eye operations by the age of six 5 According to Yorke the last surgery was botched giving him a drooping eyelid 6 He decided against further surgery I decided I liked the fact that it wasn t the same and I ve liked it ever since And when people say stuff I kind of thought it was a badge of pride and still do 7 The family moved frequently Shortly after Yorke s birth his father a nuclear physicist and later a chemical equipment salesman was hired by a firm in Scotland The family lived in Lundin Links 8 9 until Yorke was seven and he moved from school to school 10 The family settled in Oxfordshire in 1978 10 where Yorke attended primary school in Standlake 11 Yorke said he knew he would become a rock star after seeing the Queen guitarist Brian May on television for the first time at the age of eight 12 He initially wanted to be a guitarist rather than a singer but began singing as he had no one else to sing the songs he was writing 13 He received his first guitar as a child 6 14 At 10 he made his own guitar inspired by May s homemade Red Special 15 By 11 he had joined his first band and written his first song 16 Seeing Siouxsie Sioux in concert at the Apollo in 1985 inspired him to become a performer Yorke said he had never seen anyone captivate an audience like she did 17 Yorke attended the boys public school Abingdon in Oxfordshire He felt out of place 18 and got into physical fights with other students 12 He found sanctuary in the music and art departments 18 and wrote music for a school production of A Midsummer Night s Dream 19 At school he performed a vocal recital of a Schubert piece which helped him find the confidence to become a singer 13 Terence Gilmore James the Abingdon director of music recalled Yorke as forlorn and a little isolated thanks to his unusual appearance but talkative and opinionated He said Yorke was not a great musician unlike his future bandmate Jonny Greenwood but a thinker and experimenter 18 Yorke later credited the support of Gilmore James and the head of the art department for his success 7 1985 1991 On a Friday edit nbsp Abingdon School Oxfordshire where Yorke formed Radiohead with classmatesIn sixth form at Abingdon Yorke played with a punk band TNT but left when he was dissatisfied with their progress 20 He began playing with the students Ed O Brien Philip Selway and Colin Greenwood joined later by Colin s younger brother Jonny 20 In 1985 they formed a band On a Friday named after the only day they were allowed to practice 6 21 According to Selway while each member contributed songs in the band s early period Yorke emerged as the main songwriter 22 After leaving Abingdon Yorke took a gap year and tried to become a professional musician 7 He held several jobs including a period selling suits and working in an architect s office and made a demo tape 7 20 He was also involved in a serious car accident that influenced the lyrics of later songs including the Bends B side Killer Cars 1995 and Airbag from OK Computer 1997 23 In the late 1980s Yorke made a solo album Dearest which O Brien described as similar to the Jesus and Mary Chain with delay and reverb effects 12 On the strength of their first demo On a Friday were offered a record deal by Island Records but the members decided they were not ready and wanted to go to university first 7 Yorke had wanted to apply to St John s to read English at the University of Oxford but he said I was told I couldn t even apply I was too thick Oxford University would have eaten me up and spat me out It s too rigorous 24 He also considered studying music but could not read sheet music 25 In late 1988 Yorke left Oxford to study English and fine arts at the University of Exeter On a Friday entered hiatus aside from rehearsals during breaks 26 At Exeter Yorke performed experimental music with a classical ensemble 27 played in a techno group called Flickernoise 28 and played with the band Headless Chickens performing songs including future Radiohead material 29 He also met his future wife Rachel Owen and Stanley Donwood who later produced artwork for Radiohead and Yorke s solo releases 30 31 According to Yorke his paintings at Exeter were shit he was rejected by his classmates and went AWOL for three months 32 Yorke credited his art school education for preparing him creatively for his later work 7 On a Friday resumed activity in 1991 as most of the members were finishing their degrees Ronan Munro the editor of the Oxford music magazine Curfew gave the band their first interview while they were sharing a house in Oxford He recalled Thom wasn t like anyone I d interviewed before He was like This is going to happen Failure is not an option He wasn t some ranting diva or a megalomaniac but he was so focused on what he wanted to do 33 Career edit1991 1993 Creep and rise to fame edit In 1991 when Yorke was 22 24 On a Friday signed to EMI and changed their name to Radiohead They gained notice with their debut single Creep which appeared on their 1993 debut album Pablo Honey 34 Yorke grew tired of Creep after it became a hit and told Rolling Stone in 1993 It s like it s not our song any more It feels like we re doing a cover 35 36 According to Yorke around this time he hit the self destruct button pretty quickly He tried to project himself as a rock star and drank heavily often becoming too drunk to perform 37 Yorke said When I got back to Oxford I was unbearable As soon as you get any success you disappear up your own arse 38 Years later Yorke said he had found it difficult to cope with Radiohead s success I got angry I got more control freakery I put my hands on the steering wheel and I was white knuckled and I didn t care who I hurt or what I said He later apologised to his bandmates for his behaviour 39 1994 1997 The Bends edit Paul Q Kolderie the co producer of Pablo Honey observed that Yorke s songwriting improved dramatically after Pablo Honey 40 O Brien later said After all that touring on Pablo Honey the songs that Thom was writing were so much better Over a period of a year and a half suddenly bang 41 Recording Radiohead s second album The Bends 1995 was stressful as they felt pressured to release a follow up to Creep 42 Yorke in particular struggled According to the band s co manager Chris Hufford Thom became totally confused about what he wanted to do what he was doing in a band and in his life and that turned into a mistrust of everybody else 42 The Bends was engineered by Nigel Godrich who became one of Yorke s longest running collaborators 43 The Bends received critical acclaim and brought Radiohead wider international attention 44 It influenced a generation of British and Irish alternative rock acts 45 46 The Observer wrote that it popularised an angst laden falsetto which eventually coalesced into an entire decade of sound 47 The American rock band R E M a major influence on Radiohead picked them as their support act for their European tour 48 Yorke befriended the R E M singer Michael Stipe who gave him advice about how to deal with fame 49 Yorke joined R E M to perform their song E Bow the Letter on several occasions from 1998 to 2004 50 1997 1998 OK Computer edit nbsp Yorke in 1998During the production of Radiohead s third album OK Computer 1997 the members had differing opinions and equal production roles with Yorke having the loudest voice according to O Brien 51 OK Computerachieved acclaim and strong sales establishing Radiohead as one of the leading rock acts of the 1990s 52 Yorke struggled with the attention the success brought him and the stress of the OK Computer tour 52 Colin Greenwood described the hundred yard stare in Yorke s eyes when performing and said he absolutely did not want to be there You hate having to put your friend through that experience 53 Yorke said later When I was a kid I always assumed that fame was going to answer something fill a gap And it does the absolute opposite It happens with everybody I was so driven for so long like a fucking animal and then I woke up one day and someone had given me a little gold plate for OK Computer and I couldn t deal with it for ages 54 In 1997 Yorke provided backing vocals for a cover of the 1975 Pink Floyd song Wish You Were Here with Sparklehorse 55 The following year he duetted on El President with Isabel Monteiro of Drugstore 55 and sang on the Unkle track Rabbit in Your Headlights a collaboration with DJ Shadow Pitchfork cited Rabbit in Your Headlights as a turning point for Yorke foreshadowing his work in experimental electronic music 55 For the soundtrack of the 1998 film Velvet Goldmine Yorke Jonny Greenwood Andy Mackay of Roxy Music and Bernard Butler of Suede formed a band the Venus in Furs to cover Roxy Music songs In 2016 Pitchfork wrote that Yorke weirdly comes off as the weak link with understated vocals that did not resemble the Roxy Music singer Bryan Ferry 55 1999 2004 Kid A Amnesiac and Hail to the Thief edit nbsp Yorke in 2001Following the OK Computer tour Yorke suffered a mental breakdown 52 and found it impossible to write new music 56 He experienced imposter syndrome and became self critical and over analytical 57 He was approached to score the 1999 film Fight Club but declined as he was recovering from stress 58 Around this period acts influenced by Radiohead emerged such as Travis and Coldplay Yorke resented them feeling they had copied him 59 He said in 2006 I was really really upset about it and I tried my absolute best not to be but yeah it was kind of like that sort of thing of missing the point completely 60 Godrich felt Yorke was oversensitive and told him he did not invent guys singing in falsetto with an acoustic guitar 59 He saw Yorke s resentment as a byproduct of being so focused on what he wanted to do that he figures he s the only person that s ever had that idea 59 To recuperate Yorke moved to Cornwall and spent time walking the cliffs writing and drawing He restricted his songwriting to piano the first song he wrote was Everything in Its Right Place 54 During this period Yorke listened almost exclusively to the electronic music of artists such as Aphex Twin and Autechre saying It was refreshing because the music was all structures and had no human voices in it But I felt just as emotional about it as I d ever felt about guitar music 52 Yorke gradually relaxed and came to enjoy his work again 57 Radiohead took Yorke s electronic influences to their next albums Kid A 2000 and Amnesiac 2001 processing vocals obscuring lyrics and using electronic instruments such as synthesisers drum machines and samplers The albums divided listeners but were commercially successful and later attracted wide acclaim At the turn of the decade Kid A was named the best album of the 2000s by Rolling Stone and Pitchfork 61 62 In 2000 Yorke contributed vocals to three tracks on the PJ Harvey album Stories from the City Stories from the Sea 55 and duetted with Bjork on her song I ve Seen It All from her soundtrack album Selmasongs 55 Radiohead released their sixth album Hail to the Thief a blend of rock and electronic music in 2003 Yorke wrote many of its lyrics in response to the war on terror and the resurgence of right wing politics in the west after the turn of the millennium 63 and his shifting worldview after becoming a father 64 Yorke and Jonny Greenwood contributed to the 2004 Band Aid 20 single Do They Know It s Christmas produced by Godrich 65 2004 2008 The Eraser and In Rainbows edit Yorke recorded his debut solo album The Eraser during Radiohead s 2004 hiatus 66 It comprises electronics songs recorded and edited with computers 43 Yorke who formed Radiohead while the members were in school said he was curious to try working alone 66 He stressed that Radiohead were not splitting up and that the album was made with their blessing 67 According to Jonny Greenwood Radiohead were happy for Yorke to make the album He d go mad if every time he wrote a song it had to go through the Radiohead consensus 68 Godrich said that working with Yorke on The Eraser was easier than working with Radiohead as when we were in a room when it s with Radiohead I m trying to manage a relationship between Yorke and the band and it s me butting heads with him and trying to work on behalf of the band 69 The Eraser was released in 2006 on the independent label XL Recordings 67 backed by the singles Harrowdown Hill which reached number 23 in the UK Singles Chart 70 and Analyse 71 It reached the top ten in the UK Ireland United States Canada and Australia and was nominated for the 2006 Mercury Prize 72 and the 2007 Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album 73 It was followed by a B sides compilation Spitting Feathers 74 and a remix album by various artists The Eraser Rmxs 75 In 2007 Radiohead independently released their seventh album In Rainbows as a pay what you want download the first for a major act The release made headlines worldwide and sparked debate about the implications for the music industry 76 Yorke described it as a statement of Radiohead s belief in the value of music and a contract of faith between musicians and audiences 57 In the same year Yorke sang on the Modeselektor track The White Flash from the album Happy Birthday Pitchfork likened it to The Eraser and wrote that Yorke s vocals work so perfectly that it feels like this is his band 55 Yorke also sang backing vocals on Bjork s 2008 charity single Nattura 55 2009 2010 Atoms for Peace edit nbsp Yorke performing at Glastonbury Festival 2010In 2009 Yorke released a cover of the Miracle Legion song All for the Best with his brother Andy for the compilation Ciao My Shining Star The Songs of Mark Mulcahy 77 In July Yorke performed solo at the Latitude Festival in Suffolk 78 and released a double A side single FeelingPulledApartByHorses TheHollowEarth 79 He also contributed the track Hearing Damage to the Twilight Saga New Moon film soundtrack 80 That year Yorke formed a new band Atoms for Peace to perform songs from The Eraser 81 Alongside Yorke the band comprises Godrich on keyboards and guitar the bassist Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers the drummer Joey Waronker and the percussionist Mauro Refosco of Forro in the Dark 82 Yorke said God love em but I ve been playing with Radiohead since I was 16 and to do this was quite a trip It felt like we d knocked a hole in a wall and we should just fucking go through it 81 Atoms for Peace performed eight North American shows in 2010 83 They went unnamed for early performances billed as Thom Yorke or 84 In June Yorke performed a surprise set at Glastonbury Festival with Jonny Greenwood performing Eraserand Radiohead songs 85 In the same year Yorke provided vocals for And the World Laughs with You from the Flying Lotus album Cosmogramma 55 and for Shipwreck and This on the Modeselektor album Monkeytown 86 Along with Damien Rice and Philip Glass he contributed to the soundtrack for the 2010 documentary When the Dragon Swallowed the Sun 87 2011 2013 The King of Limbs and Amok edit nbsp Yorke performing with Atoms for Peace in 2013In 2011 Radiohead released their eighth album The King of Limbs which Yorke described as an expression of physical movements and wildness 88 Yorke sought to move further from conventional recording methods 89 The music video for Lotus Flower featuring Yorke s erratic dancing became an internet meme 90 By 2011 Radiohead had sold more than 30 million albums 91 In the same year Yorke collaborated with the electronic artists Burial and Four Tet on Ego and Mirror 92 and collaborated with Greenwood and the American rapper MF Doom on Retarded Fren 93 In 2012 Yorke provided vocals for Electric Candyman on the Flying Lotus album Until the Quiet Comes 55 He also remixed the single Hold On by the electronic musician Sbtrkt under the name Sisi BakBak His identity was not confirmed until September 2014 1 In February 2013 Atoms for Peace released an album Amok 94 followed by a tour of Europe the US and Japan 95 Amok received generally positive reviews 96 though some critics felt it was too similar to Yorke s solo work 97 98 99 That year Yorke and Jonny Greenwood contributed music to The UK Gold a documentary about tax avoidance The soundtrack described by Rolling Stone as a series of minimalist soundscapes was released free in February 2015 through the online music platform SoundCloud 100 2014 2017 Tomorrow s Modern Boxes and A Moon Shaped Pool edit Yorke released his second solo album Tomorrow s Modern Boxes via BitTorrent on 26 September 2014 It became the most torrented album of 2014 excluding piracy 101 with more than a million downloads in its first six days 102 Yorke and Godrich hoped to use the BitTorrent release to hand some control of internet commerce back to people who are creating the work 103 In December 2014 Yorke released the album on the online music platform Bandcamp along with a new track Youwouldn tlikemewhenI mangry 104 In 2015 Yorke contributed a soundtrack Subterranea to an installation of Radiohead artwork The Panic Office in Sydney Australia The soundtrack was composed of field recordings made in the English countryside and played on speakers at different heights with different frequency ranges The radio station Triple J described it as similar to the ambient sections of Tomorrow s Modern Boxes with some digitally spoken sections similar to Fitter Happier from OK Computer The music was not released 105 In July 2015 Yorke joined the band Portishead at the Latitude Festival to perform their song The Rip 106 Yorke composed music for a 2015 production of Harold Pinter s 1971 play Old Times by the Roundabout Theater Company in New York City The director described the music as primeval unusual the sort of neurosis within Yorke s music certainly has elucidated elements of the compulsive repetition of the play 107 That year Yorke performed with Godrich and the audiovisual artist Tarik Barri at the Latitude Festival in the UK and the Summer Sonic Festival in Japan 108 Radiohead released their ninth album A Moon Shaped Pool on 8 May 2016 109 Yorke contributed vocals and appeared in the video for Beautiful People on Mark Pritchard s 2016 album Under the Sun 110 111 2018 2019 Suspiria edit Yorke s first feature film soundtrack Suspiria composed for the 2018 horror film was released on 26 October 2018 by XL 112 It was the first Yorke project since The Bends not to feature production from his longtime collaborator Nigel Godrich 113 Instead it was produced by Yorke and Sam Petts Davies Suspiria features the London Contemporary Orchestra and Choir and Yorke s son Noah on drums 114 Yorke cited inspiration from the 1982 Blade Runner soundtrack 115 and music from Suspiria s 1977 Berlin setting such as krautrock 116 The lyrics do not follow the film narrative and were influenced by discourse surrounding President Donald Trump and Brexit 58 117 Suspirium was nominated for Best Song Written for Visual Media at the 2020 Grammy Awards 118 Yorke performed two shows in 2017 and toured Europe and the US in 2018 119 120 That year Yorke and the artist Tarik Barri created an audiovisual exhibition City Rats commissioned by the Institute for Sound and Music in Berlin 121 I See You a limited edition zine edited by Yorke with Crack Magazine was published in September 2018 with profits donated to Greenpeace 122 Yorke contributed music to the 2018 short films Why Can t We Get Along 123 and Time of Day 124 for the fashion label Rag amp Bone 125 Yorke was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Radiohead on 29 March 2019 126 He did not attend the induction ceremony citing cultural differences between the UK and America and his negative experience of the Brit Awards which is like this sort of drunken car crash that you don t want to get involved with 127 2019 2020 Anima edit Yorke s third solo album Anima was released on 27 June 2019 accompanied by a short film directed by Paul Thomas Anderson 128 Anima became Yorke s first number one album on the Billboard Dance Electronic Albums chart 129 At the 2020 Grammy Awards it was nominated for Best Alternative Music Album and Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package the Anima film was nominated for the Grammy for Best Music Film 130 The album was followed by Not the News Rmx EP comprising an extended version of the track Not the News plus remixes by various artists 131 A solo tour set to begin in March 2020 was canceled due to the COVID 19 pandemic 132 For the 2019 film Motherless Brooklyn Yorke wrote Daily Battles with horns by his Atoms for Peace bandmate Flea The director Edward Norton enlisted the jazz musician Wynton Marsalis to rearrange the song as a ballad reminiscent of 1950s Miles Davis 133 It was shortlisted for Best Original Song at the 92nd Academy Awards 134 Yorke s first classical composition Don t Fear the Light written for the piano duo Katia and Marielle Labeque debuted in April 2019 135 In April 2020 Yorke performed a new song from his home Plasticine Figures for The Tonight Show 136 In the same year he collaborated with Four Tet and Burial again on Her Revolution and His Rope 92 and remixed Isolation Theme by the electronic musician Clark 137 Yorke said his remix mirrored the COVID 19 lockdowns entering a new type of silence 137 2021 present the Smile edit nbsp Yorke performing with the Smile in 2022In March 2021 Yorke contributed music to shows by the Japanese fashion designer Jun Takahashi including a remixed version of Creep 138 That August he contributed two remixes of Gazzillion Ear by the rapper MF Doom 139 In May Yorke debuted a new band the Smile with Jonny Greenwood and the jazz drummer Tom Skinner produced by Godrich 140 Greenwood said the project was a way for him and Yorke to work together during the COVID 19 lockdowns 141 The Smile made their surprise debut in a performance streamed by Glastonbury Festival on May 22 with Yorke singing and playing guitar bass Moog synthesiser and Rhodes piano 142 The Guardian critic Alexis Petridis said the Smile sound like a simultaneously more skeletal and knottier version of Radiohead exploring more progressive rock influences with unusual time signatures complex riffs and hard driving motorik psychedelia 143 In October 2021 Yorke performed a Smile song Free in the Knowledge at the Letters Live event at the Royal Albert Hall London 144 In the same month Yorke and the Radiohead cover artist Stanley Donwood curated an exhibition of Kid A artwork and lyrics at Christie s headquarters in London ahead of reissued package of the Kid A and Amnesia albums Kid A Mnesia 145 The pair also contributed lyrics and artwork to Kid A Mnesia Exhibition a free digital experience for PlayStation 5 macOS and Windows 146 On 9 April 2022 Yorke performed a solo concert at the Zeltbuhne festival in Zermatt Switzerland playing songs from his work with Radiohead the Smile and Unkle and his solo records 147 In May 2022 the Smile released their debut album A Light for Attracting Attention and began a European tour 148 Yorke wrote two songs 5 17 and That s How Horses Are for the sixth series of the television drama Peaky Blinders broadcast in 2022 149 He executive produced Sus Dog 2023 the tenth album by Clark Yorke acted as a mentor for Clark s vocals and contributed vocals and bass 150 In September 2023 Yorke and Donwood exhibited a selection of artwork The Crow Flies in London The paintings based on Islamic pirate maps and 1960s US military topographic charts began as work for A Light For Attracting Attention 151 The second Smile album Wall of Eyes was released in January 2024 with a European tour to follow in March 152 Yorke composed the score for the film Confidenza by the Italian filmmaker Daniele Luchetti which will premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in January 2024 153 Artistry edit nbsp Yorke performing with Atoms for Peace in 2013Yorke writes the first versions of most Radiohead songs after which they are developed harmonically by Jonny Greenwood before the other band members develop their parts 154 His solo work comprises mainly electronic music 155 Stereogum characterised it as largely interior frigid and beat driven unlike the wide open horizons of Radiohead songs 156 Yorke said the nature of being a creative person was to retain a beginner s mind The search is the point The flailing around is the point The process is the point 157 Yorke said he used to be more controlling in the studio but learnt to be more relaxed and open to new ideas 158 He likened the creative process to surfing You can sit out there on a board for ages waiting for the right wave to come along You can t get angry about it You know it will happen eventually and you start to understand the waiting itself might be part of it 158 Yorke has worked with the producer Nigel Godrich on most of his projects including Radiohead Atoms for Peace the Smile and most of his solo work 159 Yorke credits Godrich with helping edit his work identifying which parts need improvement and which have potential 159 He said they sometimes had arguments that last for days but that they always resolve their differences and likened him to a brother 24 Godrich said the pair were very productive together and that s a really precious and important thing and it changes within the context of whatever we re doing 160 Musicianship edit Yorke is a multi instrumentalist and plays instruments including guitar 161 piano 162 bass 163 and drums 164 He played drums for performances of the 2007 Radiohead song Bangers and Mash 164 With the Smile Yorke has used a Fender Mustang bass with a fingerstyle technique 163 Yorke uses electronic instruments such as synthesisers drum machines and sequencers and electronic techniques including programming sampling and looping In 2015 he said Really I just enjoy writing words sitting at a piano I tend to lose interest in the drum machine 165 According to Godrich Thom will sit down and make some crazy fractured cheese grater on head mayhem on a computer but at some point he always gets his guitar out to check he can actually play it 166 Unlike his bandmate Jonny Greenwood Yorke does not read sheet music 167 he said You can t express the rhythms properly like that It s a very ineffective way of doing it so I ve never really bothered picking it up 168 Explaining why he turned down a request to play piano on the song Mr Bellamy on Paul McCartney s album Memory Almost Full 2007 Yorke said The piano playing involved two hands doing things separately I don t have that skill available I said to him I strum piano that s it 162 Vocals edit Yorke has one of the widest vocal ranges in popular music 169 He is known for his falsetto which Paste described as sweet cautious and haunting 170 Rolling Stonedescribed his voice as a broad emotive sweep with a high keening sound 171 The Guardian described it as instrument like and spectral and wrote that it transcends the egocentric posturing of the indie rock singer stereotype 111 The music journalist Robert Christgau wrote that Yorke s voice has a pained transported intensity pure up top with hints of hysterical grit below Fraught and self involved with no time for jokes not asexual but otherwise occupied and never ever common this is the idealised voice of a pretentious college boy Like it or not the voice is remarkable 172 Yorke often manipulates his voice with software and effects transforming it into a disembodied instrument 171 For example on Everything in Its Right Place 2000 his vocals are treated to create a glitching stuttering collage 173 Pitchfork wrote in 2016 that over the decades Yorke s voice had evolved from semi interesting alt rocker to left field art rock demigod to electronic grand wizard 55 In 2006 Yorke said It annoys me how pretty my voice is That sounds incredibly immodest but it annoys me how polite it can sound when perhaps what I m singing is deeply acidic 168 He said he keeps vocals in mind whenever he builds music no matter the genre and that he found it difficult to listen to dance music without imagining a voice 81 In 2023 Yorke said that his vocal range had dropped with age and that he now found Creep difficult to sing 174 In 2005 readers of Blender and MTV2 voted Yorke the 18th greatest singer of all time In 2010 Rolling Stone ranked him the 66th greatest and wrote that he was one of the most influential singers of his generation influencing bands such as Muse Coldplay Travis and Elbow 171 In their updated 2023 list Rolling Stone ranked Yorke the 34th greatest singer praising his genuine edge of alienation 175 Lyrics edit Yorke s early lyrics were personal but he found that tortured lyrics became tired 158 He said his lyrics were not some deep heartfelt thing instead he likened them to a collage assembled from images and external sources such as television 25 From Kid A he experimented with cutting up words and phrases and assembling them at random 56 He sometimes chooses words for their sounds rather than their meaning such as the title phrase of Myxomatosis or the repeated phrase the rain drops on Sit Down Stand Up 176 A 2021 study found that Yorke had among the largest vocabularies of pop singers based on the number of different words used in each song 177 Yorke deliberately uses cliches idioms and other common expressions 178 inspired by the American artist Barbara Kruger 25 For example according to the Pitchfork writer Rob Mitchum the Kid A lyrics feature hum drum observations twisted into panic attacks 179 Another Pitchfork writer Jayson Greene said the approach suggested a mind consumed by meaningless data 180 Yorke said he hoped to capture the experience people have every day of trying to make emotional sense of the words and images that surround them 158 and that lyrics should be a series of windows opening rather than shutting which is incredibly hard to do 57 Colin Greenwood described his lyrics as a running commentary on what s happening in the world like a shutter snapping in succession 176 The New Republic writer Ryan Kearney speculated that Yorke s use of common expressions which he described as Radioheadisms was an attempt to sap our common tongue of meaning and expose the vapidity of everyday discourse 178 Kearney felt the approach had become a crutch for Yorke creating a senseless mush He wrote in 2016 that he was the most overrated lyricist in music today and that fans critics and academics had taken the bait and delivered one overwrought interpretation after another 178 Many of Yorke s lyrics express paranoia The Guardian critic Alexis Petridis described what you might call the Yorke worldview that life is a waking nightmare and everything is completely and perhaps irreparably screwed 181 According to Yorke many of his lyrics are motivated by anger expressing his political and environmental concerns 88 and written as a constant response to doublethink 182 The lyrics of the 2003 Radiohead album Hail to the Thiefdealt with what Yorke called the ignorance and intolerance and panic and stupidity following the 2000 election of US President George W Bush and the unfolding war on terror 183 Yorke wrote his 2006 single Harrowdown Hill about David Kelly the British weapons expert and whistleblower 184 In a 2008 television performance of House of Cards Yorke dedicated the denial denial refrain to Bush for rejecting the Kyoto Protocol an international treaty to reduce greenhouse gases 185 The 2011 single The Daily Mail attacks the right wing Daily Mail newspaper 186 In a 2015 interview with the activist and writer George Monbiot Yorke said In the 60s you could write songs that were like calls to arms and it would work It s much harder to do that now If I was going to write a protest song about climate change in 2015 it would be shit It s not like one song or one piece of art or one book is going to change someone s mind 187 Working on Radiohead s ninth album A Moon Shaped Pool Yorke worried that political songs alienated some listeners but decided it was better than writing another lovey dovey song about nothing 188 Greene wrote that Yorke s lyrics on A Moon Shaped Pool were less cynical conveying wonder and amazement 180 Many critics felt the lyrics might address Yorke s separation from Rachel Owen his partner of more than 20 years 189 190 191 192 However Yorke denied writing biographically saying he instead writes spasmodic lyrics based on imagery 193 Dance edit Yorke often incorporates dance into his performances described by the Sunday Times as his on stage signature 193 He began dancing on stage after Radiohead released Kid A in 2000 as many songs did not require him to play guitar 193 The New York Times contrasted Yorke s tortured 1990s appearance with his later looser more comfortable performances 57 Yorke said he enjoyed messing around with the idea of being the rock star or the uptight 1990s guy I can choose to do something completely different and be stupid or jump around 57 Yorke s dancing features in music videos for songs such as Lotus Flower 194 and Ingenue 195 and the short film Anima 196 Critics have described it as erratic 194 flailing 197 and unconventional 198 In 2011 Rolling Stone readers voted Yorke their 10th favourite dancing musician 198 Influences edit As a child Yorke s favourite artists included Queen 13 R E M Siouxsie and the Banshees Joy Division and Bob Dylan were important to him as a teenager 199 He initially attempted to emulate singers including Michael Stipe Morrissey and David Sylvian 13 He also wrote that Mark Mulcahy of Miracle Legion had affected him a great deal at this time It was the voice of someone who was only truly happy when he was singing It changed the way I thought about songs and singing 200 When he was 16 Yorke sent a demo to a music magazine who wrote that he sounded like Neil Young Unfamiliar with Young Yorke purchased his 1970 album After the Gold Rush 201 which gave him the confidence to reveal softness and naivete in vocals 13 Yorke also credited Young as a lyrical influence 202 He said It was his attitude toward the way he laid songs down It s always about laying down whatever is in your head at the time and staying completely true to that no matter what it is 201 Yorke said that Jeff Buckley had given him the confidence to use falsetto and be vulnerable in his singing 203 13 Yorke cited the Pixies 204 Bjork and PJ Harvey as artists who changed his life 205 and in 2006 he told Pitchfork that Radiohead had ripped off R E M blind for years 206 He cited Stipe as his favourite lyricist I loved the way he would take an emotion and then take a step back from it and in doing so make it so much more powerful 158 The chorus of How to Disappear Completely from Kid A was inspired by Stipe who advised Yorke to relieve tour stress by repeating to himself I m not here this isn t happening 207 Yorke cited the Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante as an influence on his guitar playing on In Rainbows 161 and Scott Walker as an influence on his vocals and lyrics 208 After OK Computer Yorke and Radiohead incorporated influences from electronic artists such as Aphex Twin and Autechre 52 In 2013 Yorke cited Aphex Twin as his biggest influence saying He burns a heavy shadow Aphex opened up another world that didn t involve my fucking electric guitar I hated all the music that was around Radiohead at the time it was completely fucking meaningless I hated the Britpop thing and what was happening in America but Aphex was totally beautiful 209 Artwork edit nbsp The Radiohead cover artist Stanley Donwood left and Yorke promoting The King of Limbs in 2011Since the EP My Iron Lung 1994 Yorke has created artwork for Radiohead and his other projects with Stanley Donwood The pair met as art students at the University of Exeter Donwood said his first impression of Yorke was that he was mouthy Pissed off Someone I could work with 210 Yorke is credited for artwork alongside Donwood as the White Chocolate Farm Tchock Dr Tchock and similar abbreviations 211 Whereas Donwood described himself as having a tendency towards detailing and perfectionism he said Yorke is completely opposed fucking everything up I do something then he fucks it up then I fuck up what he s done and we keep doing that until we re happy with the result It s a competition to see who wins the painting which one of us takes possession of it in an artistic way 212 The artist Tarik Barri provides live visuals for Yorke s solo and multimedia projects and shows with Atoms for Peace 213 Politics and activism editMusic industry edit Yorke has been critical of the music industry and has pioneered alternative release platforms with Radiohead and his solo work Following Radiohead s tour of America in 1993 he became disenchanted with being right at the sharp end of the sexy sassy MTV eye candy lifestyle he felt he was helping sell 214 After a 1995 Melody Maker article suggested that Yorke would kill himself like the Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain Yorke developed an aversion to the British music press 215 In November 1995 NME covered an incident in which Yorke became sick and collapsed on stage at a show in Munich and titled the story Thommy s Temper Tantrum Yorke said it was the most hurtful thing anyone had written about him and refused to give interviews to NME for five years 216 The 1998 documentary Meeting People Is Easy portrays Yorke s disaffection with the music industry and press during Radiohead s OK Computer tour 21 After Radiohead s fourth album Kid A 2000 was leaked via the peer to peer filesharing software Napster weeks before release Yorke told Time he felt Napster encourages enthusiasm for music in a way that the music industry has long forgotten to do I think anybody sticking two fingers up at the whole fucking thing is wonderful as far as I m concerned 217 In 2001 Yorke criticised the American live music industry describing it as a monopoly controlled by Clear Channel Entertainment and Ticketmaster 218 After Radiohead s record contract with EMI ended with the release of Hail to the Thief 2003 Yorke told Time I like the people at our record company but the time is at hand when you have to ask why anyone needs one And yes it probably would give us some perverse pleasure to say Fuck you to this decaying business model 219 In 2006 he called major record labels stupid little boys games especially really high up 66 Radiohead independently released their 2007 album In Rainbowsas a download for which listeners could choose their price 76 Yorke said the most exciting part of the release was the removal of the barrier between artist and audience 220 However in 2013 Yorke told the Guardian he feared the In Rainbows release had instead played into the hands of content providers such as Apple and Google They have to keep commodifying things to keep the share price up but in doing so they have made all content including music and newspapers worthless in order to make their billions And this is what we want 158 In 2015 he criticised YouTube for seizing control of contributor content likening it to Nazis looting art during World War II 221 Spotify edit In 2013 Yorke and Godrich made headlines for their criticism of the music streaming service Spotify and removed Atoms for Peace and Yorke s solo music from the service 222 In a series of tweets Yorke wrote Make no mistake new artists you discover on Spotify will not get paid Meanwhile shareholders will shortly be rolling in it New artists get paid fuck all with this model Yorke called Spotify the last gasp of the old industry accusing it of only benefiting major labels with large back catalogues and encouraged artists to build their own direct connections with audiences instead 220 Brian Message a partner at Radiohead s management company 223 disagreed with Yorke noting that Spotify pays 70 percent of its revenue back to the music industry He said that Thom s issue was that the pipe has become so jammed We encourage all of our artists to take a long term approach Plan for the long term understand that it s a tough game 224 Yorke s music was re added to Spotify in December 2017 225 For Yorke s second solo album Tomorrow s Modern Boxes 2014 released via BitTorrent he and Godrich expressed their hope to hand some control of internet back to people who are creating the work bypassing the self elected gatekeepers 226 Asked if the release had been a success Yorke said No not exactly I wanted to show that in theory today one could follow the entire chain of record production from start to finish on his own But in practice it is very different We cannot be burdened with all of the responsibilities of the record label 221 Climate change edit In 2000 during the recording of Kid A Yorke became obsessed with the Worldwatch Institute website which was full of scary statistics about icecaps melting and weather patterns changing 227 He said he became involved in the movement to halt climate change after having children and waking up every night just terrified 228 Yorke has been a supporter of Friends of the Earth and their Big Ask Campaign since 2003 He and Jonny Greenwood headlined the Big Ask Live a 2006 benefit concert to persuade the government to enact a new law on climate change 229 In a Guardian article Yorke wrote At first I told Friends of the Earth that I was absolutely the wrong person to be associated with their campaign I ve based my life on touring and the rock industry is a high energy consuming industry But they persuaded me that that was exactly why it was a good idea for me to be involved that they didn t want to present a holier than thou message Initially I attracted some criticism but you just have to accept it drink some cold water and get on with your life 227 In 2006 Yorke refused an invitation from Friends of the Earth to meet the British prime minister Tony Blair to discuss climate change Yorke said that Blair had no environmental credentials and that his spin doctors would manipulate the meeting 230 He told the Guardian that Blair s advisers had wanted to vet Yorke beforehand and that Friends of the Earth would lose access if Yorke said the wrong thing afterwards which he equated to blackmail 229 In 2008 Radiohead commissioned a study to reduce the carbon expended on tour Based on the findings they chose to play at venues supported by public transport made deals with trucking companies to reduce emissions used new low energy LED lighting and encouraged festivals to offer reusable plastics 227 231 That year Yorke guest edited a special climate change edition of Observer Magazine and wrote Unlike pessimists such as James Lovelock I don t believe we are all doomed You should never give up hope 227 In 2009 Yorke performed via Skype at the premier of the environmentalist documentary The Age of Stupid 232 and gained access to the COP 15 climate change talks in Copenhagen by posing as a journalist 233 In 2010 he performed a benefit concert at the Cambridge Corn Exchange for the British Green Party 234 and supported the 10 10 campaign for climate change mitigation 235 The following year he joined the maiden voyage of Rainbow Warrior III a yacht used by Greenpeace to monitor damage to the environment 228 Yorke was one of several celebrities who endorsed the parliamentary candidacy of the Green candidate Caroline Lucas at the 2015 UK general election 236 In December 2015 he performed at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris at a benefit concert in aid of 350 org an environmental organisation raising awareness about climate change 237 His performance was included on the live album Pathway to Paris released in July 2016 238 Yorke contributed an electronic track Hands Off the Antarctic to a 2018 Greenpeace campaign 239 2017 Israel concert edit In April 2017 more than 50 prominent figures including the musicians Roger Waters and Thurston Moore the rights activist Desmond Tutu and the filmmaker Ken Loach signed a petition urging Radiohead to cancel a performance in Israel as part of Boycott Divestment and Sanctions a cultural boycott of Israel 240 In a Rolling Stone interview Yorke said of the criticism I just can t understand why going to play a rock show or going to lecture at a university is a problem to them It s really upsetting that artists I respect think we are not capable of making a moral decision ourselves after all these years They talk down to us and I just find it mind boggling that they think they have the right to do that 241 Yorke said that the petitioners had not contacted him This was disputed by Waters who wrote in an open letter in Rolling Stone that he had attempted to contact Yorke several times 242 In a statement Yorke responded Playing in a country isn t the same as endorsing the government Music art and academia is about crossing borders not building them about open minds not closed ones about shared humanity dialogue and freedom of expression 243 Other issues edit In 1999 Yorke travelled to the G8 summit to support the Jubilee 2000 movement calling for cancellation of third world debt 244 In a 2003 Guardian article criticising the World Trade Organization he wrote The west is creating an extremely dangerous economic environmental and humanitarian time bomb We are living beyond our means 245 In 2005 he performed at an all night vigil for the Trade Justice Movement calling for a better trade deal for poor countries 246 In 2002 Yorke performed at the Bridge School Benefit a charity concert organised by the Canadian songwriter Neil Young one of Yorke s influences His set included a cover of Young s 1970 song After the Gold Rush performed on the piano Young wrote it on 247 In September 2004 Yorke was a key speaker at a Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament rally outside the Fylingdales air base in Yorkshire protesting Tony Blair s support of the Bush administration s plans for the Star Wars missile defence system 248 In 2011 alongside Robert Del Naja of Massive Attack and Tim Goldsworthy of Unkle Yorke played a secret DJ set for a group of Occupy activists in the abandoned offices of the investment bank UBS 249 To celebrate the 2008 election of US president Barack Obama Yorke released a remixed version of his single Harrowdown Hill as a free download 250 After the election of Donald Trump in 2016 he tweeted lyrics from Radiohead s single Burn the Witch interpreted as a criticism of Trump s policies 251 252 In June 2016 following the Orlando nightclub shooting in Florida Yorke was one of nearly 200 music industry figures to sign an open letter published in Billboard urging the United States Congress to impose stricter gun control 253 254 He opposed Brexit 255 256 and in March 2019 joined the People s Vote march calling for a second referendum 257 Yorke is vegetarian 187 In a 2005 film for the animal rights foundation Animal Aid he said Society deems it necessary to create this level of suffering in order for people to eat food that they don t need You should at least be aware of what you re doing rather than assuming that that s your right as a human being to do it 258 Personal life editFor 23 years Yorke was in a relationship with the artist and lecturer Rachel Owen whom he met while studying at the University of Exeter 229 In 2012 Rolling Stone reported that Owen and Yorke were not married 89 However The Times later found that they had married in a secret ceremony in Oxfordshire in May 2003 259 Their son Noah was born in 2001 and their daughter Agnes in 2004 229 On Yorke s 2018 soundtrack album Suspiria Agnes collaborated on the artwork and Noah played drums on two tracks 260 In September 2021 Noah released a song Trying Too Hard Lullaby NME likened its ghostly arrangement to Radiohead s album In Rainbows 261 Noah has since released several songs and is due to release an EP Cerebral Key 262 He also performs with James Knott as the noise duo Hex Girlfriend 263 In August 2015 Yorke and Owen announced that they had separated amicably 264 Owen died from cancer on 18 December 2016 aged 48 265 In September 2020 Yorke married the Italian actress Dajana Roncione in Bagheria Sicily 266 Roncione appears in the video for the Radiohead song Lift and Yorke s short film Anima 267 They live in Oxford 25 Yorke practises meditation 268 He has suffered from anxiety and depression which he treats with exercise yoga and reading 269 While recording in California with Atoms for Peace he took up surfing which he said taught him patience in creativity 158 His only sibling his younger brother Andy was the singer of the band Unbelievable Truth from 1993 until 2000 270 In 2023 a species of fossil stingray from Italy was named Dasyomyliobatis thomyorkei in honor of Yorke 271 Awards and nominations editSee also List of awards and nominations received by Radiohead Award Year Work Category Result Ref A2IM Libera Awards 2020 Himself Marketing Genius Nominated 272 Anima Best Dance Electronic Album NominatedBrit Awards 2007 Himself British Male Solo Artist Nominated 273 Chicago Film Critics Association Award 2018 Suspiria Best Original Score Nominated 274 David di Donatello 2020 Suspiria Best Score NominatedDenmark GAFFA Awards 1998 Himself Best Foreign Songwriter Nominated 275 2001 Best Foreign Male Act Nominated2004 Nominated2006 NominatedThe Eraser Best Foreign Album NominatedGrammy Awards 2007 The Eraser Best Alternative Music Album Nominated2020 Anima Best Alternative Music Album NominatedBest Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package NominatedBest Music Film Nominated Suspirium Best Song Written for Visual Media NominatedLibera Awards 2020 Anima Best Dance Electronic Record Nominated 276 Marketing Genius NominatedMercury Prize 2006 The Eraser Album of the Year Nominated 277 NME Awards 2008 Himself Hero of the Year Nominated 278 Washington D C Area Film Critics Association 2018 Suspiria Best Score NominatedUK Music Video Awards 2019 Anima Best Special Video Project Nominated 279 Best Production Design in a Video NominatedBest Choreography in a Video Won2020 Last I Heard He Was Circling the Drain Best Alternative Video UK Nominated 280 Zebrik Music Awards 2000 Himself Best International Male Nominated 281 2001 Nominated2003 Nominated2005 Nominated 282 Solo discography editMain article Thom Yorke discography See also Radiohead discography Atoms for Peace discography and The Smile discography Studio albums edit The Eraser 2006 Tomorrow s Modern Boxes 2014 Anima 2019 Film soundtracks edit When the Dragon Swallowed the Sun 2010 additional music only The UK Gold 2013 with Robert Del Naja Why Can t We Get Along 2018 Rag amp Bone short film Time of Day 2018 Rag amp Bone short film Suspiria 2018 Confidenza 2024 Albums produced edit Suspiria 2018 Sus Dog by Clark 2023 executive produced See also editList of Old AbingdoniansReferences edit a b Pelly John 2 September 2014 Thom Yorke Confirms That He Was Sisi BakBak Mysterious SBTRKT Remixer Pitchfork Retrieved 9 September 2014 McLean Craig 18 June 2006 All messed up London guardian co uk Retrieved 9 July 2009 Review ANIMA AllMusic Retrieved 3 December 2023 Leahey Andrew September 2007 Book reviews Dead Children Playing A Picture Book CMJ Vol 64 no 151 p 62 Randall p 19 a b c McLean Craig 18 June 2006 All messed up The Observer London Archived from the original on 23 July 2008 Retrieved 26 March 2007 a b c d e f Ten 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December 2021 Radiohead s Thom Yorke is co curating a Kid A artwork exhibition NME 22 September 2021 Retrieved 16 October 2021 Stanton Rich 18 November 2021 Radiohead s freaky looking Kid A Mnesiac exhibition game thing is out and free PC Gamer Retrieved 20 November 2021 Brodsky Rachel 9 April 2022 Watch Thom Yorke perform Radiohead s Bodysnatchers acoustic for the first time Stereogum Retrieved 9 April 2022 Lavin Will 20 April 2022 The Smile announce debut album A Light for Attracting Attention NME Retrieved 20 April 2022 Corcoran Nina 13 March 2022 Thom Yorke releases new solo song 5 17 Listen Pitchfork Retrieved 13 March 2022 Condon Dan 24 January 2023 Thom Yorke is the backseat driver on the new LP from UK producer Clark Double J Retrieved 24 January 2023 Lindert Hattie 2 August 2023 Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood Announce Art Exhibition The Crow Flies Part One Pitchfork Retrieved 3 August 2023 Lindert Hattie 13 November 2023 The Smile Announce New Album Wall of Eyes Share Video for New Song Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson Pitchfork Retrieved 13 November 2023 Geraghty Hollie 24 January 2024 Thom Yorke has written the score for new movie Confidenza NME Retrieved 24 January 2024 Ross Alex 20 August 2001 The Searchers Radiohead s unquiet revolution The New Yorker Archived from the original on 14 February 2008 Retrieved 22 February 2012 Cush Andy 2 July 2019 Thom Yorke Fully Realizes His Electronic Vision on the Bleak Beautiful ANIMA Spin Retrieved 6 July 2019 Thom Yorke s Live Show Might Change Your Perspective On His Solo Work Stereogum 3 October 2019 Retrieved 5 October 2019 Donwood Stanley Yorke Thom 4 November 2021 We had a fierce anger and suspicion Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood on Radiohead s Kid A and Amnesiac The Guardian Retrieved 13 March 2022 a b c d e f g Adams Tim 23 February 2013 Thom Yorke If I can t enjoy this now when do I start The Guardian Retrieved 26 April 2015 a b Vozick Levinson Simon 23 April 2013 Thom Yorke and Nigel Godrich on Atoms for Peace the state of dance music and what s next for Radiohead Rolling Stone Retrieved 8 June 2013 Doherty Niall 27 July 2022 Lost in music Nigel Godrich The New Cue Retrieved 27 July 2022 a b Radiohead on In Rainbows XFM 28 January 2008 Archived from the original on 21 June 2015 Retrieved 30 January 2015 a b McLean Craig 9 December 2007 Radiohead Caught in the flash part 3 The Guardian Retrieved 16 January 2022 a b Michael Astley Brown 31 January 2022 The Smile just played their first ever public gigs here are six things we learned about the Radiohead offshoot Guitar World Retrieved 2 February 2022 a b Radiohead video Thom Yorke playing drums MusicRadar 9 April 2008 Retrieved 26 April 2015 Yin Wong Flora 22 January 2013 Uni of Yorke Class 2 Pearson Sound Caribou RYAT Dazed Retrieved 3 January 2018 Our reference was Saturday Night by Whigfield Ultraista interviewed Clash Magazine 20 March 2020 Retrieved 13 May 2022 Happy now June 2001 Archived from the original on 6 February 2012 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