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|Origin = [[Abingdon, Oxfordshire]], [[England]]

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|Genre = [[Alternative rock]], [[Electronic music]], [[Art rock]]

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|Formed = [[1986]]

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|Years_active = [[1991]] – present

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|Label = [[EMI]]<br/>[[Parlophone]]<br>[[Capitol Records|Capitol]]

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|URL = [http://www.radiohead.com/ Official site]

| origin = [[Abingdon-on-Thames|Abingdon]], [[Oxfordshire]], England

|Current_members = [[Thom Yorke]]<br />[[Jonny Greenwood]]<br />[[Ed O'Brien]]<br />[[Colin Greenwood]]<br />[[Phil Selway]]

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* [[Radiohead discography|Discography]]

* [[List of songs recorded by Radiohead|songs]]

* [[List of Radiohead live performances|live performances]]

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| years_active = 1985–present

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* [[Atoms for Peace (band)|Atoms for Peace]]

* [[The Smile (band)|The Smile]]

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* [[EMI]]

* [[XL Recordings|XL]]

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* [[Hostess Entertainment|Hostess]]

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| current_members = * [[Colin Greenwood]]

* [[Ed O'Brien]]

* [[Philip Selway]]

* [[Thom Yorke]]

* [[Jonny Greenwood]]

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'''Radiohead''' are<!-- This article is written in British English, which commonly treats collective nouns as plural. Please do NOT change "ARE" to "IS". Thank you. --> an English rock band formed in [[Abingdon-on-Thames|Abingdon]], [[Oxfordshire]], in 1985. The band members are [[Thom Yorke]] (vocals, guitar, piano, keyboards); brothers [[Jonny Greenwood]] (guitar, keyboards, other instruments) and [[Colin Greenwood]] (bass); [[Ed O'Brien]] (guitar, backing vocals); and [[Philip Selway]] (drums, percussion). They have worked with the producer [[Nigel Godrich]] and the cover artist [[Stanley Donwood]] since 1994. Radiohead's [[Experimental music|experimental]] approach is credited with advancing the sound of [[alternative rock]].

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'''Radiohead''' are an [[England|English]] music group from [[Oxfordshire]]. They have often been praised as among the most creative and [[musical genre|genre]]-bending rock bands of their era, noted for multilayered songs and radical evolutions from album to album.<ref>Ross, Alex. "The Searchers: Radiohead's unquiet revolution." ''The New Yorker'', August 20 and 27, 2001. [http://www.therestisnoise.com/2004/04/mahler_1.html]

</ref> They are also seen by some to have maintained a spirit of musical and political independence

<ref>Burton, Sarah. "Art and Politics" (interview with [[Howard Zinn]] and Thom Yorke). ''Resonance Magazine'', November 22, 2003. [http://www.alternet.org/story/17242/ archived at alternet]

</ref>

<ref>Whittington-Hill, Lisa. "Let's Rant and Roll." ''This Magazine'', November-December 2004. [http://dev.thismagazine.ca/issues/2004/11/rantandroll.php]

</ref>

despite recording for [[EMI]], a [[Record label|major label]]. The band are currently without a record deal, working on their next album.

Radiohead signed to [[EMI]] in 1991 and released their debut album, ''[[Pablo Honey]]'', in 1993. Their debut single, "[[Creep (Radiohead song)|Creep]]", was a worldwide hit, and their popularity and critical standing rose with ''[[The Bends (album)|The Bends]]'' in 1995. Their third album, ''[[OK Computer]]'' (1997), is acclaimed as a landmark record and one of the greatest albums in popular music, with complex production and themes of [[social alienation|modern alienation]]. Their fourth album, ''[[Kid A]]'' (2000), marked a dramatic change in style, incorporating influences from [[electronic music]], [[jazz]], [[classical music]] and [[krautrock]]. Though ''Kid A'' divided listeners, it was later named the best album of the decade by multiple outlets. It was followed by ''[[Amnesiac (album)|Amnesiac]]'' (2001), recorded in the same sessions. Radiohead's final album for EMI, ''[[Hail to the Thief]]'' (2003), blended rock and electronic music, with lyrics addressing the [[war on terror]].

Formed by school friends in 1986, Radiohead did not release their first [[single (music)|single]] until 1992. "[[Creep (song)|Creep]]", from their debut album ''[[Pablo Honey]]'' (1993), became a worldwide hit as [[grunge music]] dominated radio airwaves. Radiohead were initially branded as a [[one-hit wonder]] abroad, but they caught on at home in the [[United Kingdom|UK]] with their second album, ''[[The Bends]]'' (1995), earning fans with their three guitarists' dense atmospheres and frontman [[Thom Yorke]]'s expressive singing. The band's third album, ''[[OK Computer]]'' (1997), propelled them to greater attention. Popular both for its expansive sound and themes of modern alienation, it has been acclaimed by critics as a landmark record of the 1990s.

Radiohead self-released their seventh album, ''[[In Rainbows]]'' (2007), as a [[music download|download]] for which customers could [[Pay what you want|set their own price]], to critical and commercial success. Their eighth album, ''[[The King of Limbs]]'' (2011), an exploration of rhythm, was developed using extensive [[Loop (music)|looping]] and [[Sampling (music)|sampling]]. ''[[A Moon Shaped Pool]]'' (2016) prominently featured Jonny Greenwood's [[orchestra]]l arrangements. Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Selway and O'Brien have released solo albums. In 2021, Yorke and Jonny Greenwood debuted a new band, [[The Smile (band)|the Smile]].

Radiohead's original influences were alternative rock and [[post-punk]] bands like [[The Smiths]], [[Pixies]], [[R.E.M.]] and [[Joy Division]]. With their albums ''[[Kid A]]'' (2000) and ''[[Amnesiac]]'' (2001), the band reached their peak global popularity even as their music became less conventional, turning toward influences in [[electronic music]], experimental [[jazz]] and avant garde [[20th century classical music|classical]], ranging from [[Autechre]] and [[Can (band)|Can]] to [[Charles Mingus]] and [[Olivier Messiaen]]. Although the band's recent albums have polarised listeners and failed to spin off major radio hits, Radiohead continue to be seen as figureheads in the music industry,

<ref>Pareles, Jon. ''New York Times'' article, July 2, 2006. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/02/arts/music/02pare.html?_r=1&oref=slogin]

</ref>

<ref>Abramovich, Alex. "The Anti-Christs: Radiohead defies rock's own, personal Jesus myth." ''Slate'', June 8, 2001. [http://www.slate.com/id/109743/]

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drawing adoring crowds to their [[Concert|live concerts]], influencing artists in many genres and enjoying surprising commercial success for a band of "outsiders".<ref>Ross, Alex. "The Searchers: Radiohead's unquiet revolution." ''The New Yorker'', August 20 and 27, 2001. [http://www.therestisnoise.com/2004/04/mahler_1.html]</ref>

By 2011, Radiohead had sold more than 30 million albums worldwide.<ref>Jonathan, Emma. [http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/bbcworldwide/worldwidestories/pressreleases/2011/05_may/radiohead.shtml "BBC Worldwide takes exclusive Radiohead performance to the world"]. [[BBC]]. 3 May 2011. Retrieved 30 November 2023.</ref> [[List of awards and nominations received by Radiohead|Their awards]] include six [[Grammy Awards]] and four [[Ivor Novello Awards]], and they hold five [[Mercury Prize]] nominations, the most of any act. Seven Radiohead singles have reached the top 10 on the [[UK singles chart]]: "Creep" (1992), "[[Street Spirit (Fade Out)]]" (1996), "[[Paranoid Android]]" (1997), "[[Karma Police]]" (1997), "[[No Surprises]]" (1998), "[[Pyramid Song]]" (2001), and "[[There There (song)|There There]]" (2003). "Creep" and "[[Nude (song)|Nude]]" (2008) reached the [[top 40]] on the US [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]]. ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' named Radiohead one of the [[Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Artists of All Time|100 greatest artists of all time]], and included five of their albums in its lists of the "[[Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time|500 Greatest Albums of All Time]]". Radiohead were inducted into the [[Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]] in 2019.

==History==

===(1986-1991) Formation and first years ===

Radiohead were formed in the mid-Eighties at [[Abingdon School]], a [[Independent school (UK)|public]] (in American English: private) boys-only school located just outside the city of Oxford, which drummer [[Phil Selway]], guitarist [[Ed O'Brien]], guitarist/vocalist [[Thom Yorke]], bassist [[Colin Greenwood]] and Colin's multi-instrumentalist brother [[Jonny Greenwood|Jonny]] all attended. They began practicing in the school's music room, which led to the formation of their first band [[On a Friday]], so named because of their customary rehearsal date. Among On a Friday's earliest influences were [[Morissey]] [[The Smiths]], [[Joy Division]], [[Magazine (band)|Magazine]], [[Queen (band)|Queen]], [[R.E.M. (band)|R.E.M.]], [[Roxy Music]] and [[Elvis Costello]]. The band played their first gig in September 1986, at Oxford's [[Jericho Tavern]]. Jonny was the youngest member, and played only [[harmonica]] until he could persuade the others to allow him on guitar, but he soon developed into the band's [[lead guitar|lead]] player. At one point early in the band's history, On a Friday also had several girls in the lineup playing [[saxophone]].

== History ==

When the five band members left school to attend university they temporarily put aside On a Friday, but continued to practice on holiday breaks, always planning to return to the band. After four years of dormancy, On a Friday began releasing demos (such as the [[Manic Hedgehog Demo]]) and performing live again in Oxford in 1991, becoming popular in the region and also appearing on the cover of local magazine ''Curfew''. Though Oxfordshire and the [[Thames Valley]] had an active independent music scene in the late 80s and early 90s centred around [[shoegazing]] bands like [[Ride (band)|Ride]] and [[Slowdive]], Radiohead was not seen to fit into this trend, and commented that they had "missed" it by the time they returned from university.

===(1992-1995) ''Pablo1985–1992: Honey''formation and ''Thefirst Bends''years ===

[[File:Abingdon School, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England-23April2011.jpg|thumb|[[Abingdon School]], where Radiohead formed]]

As On a Friday's live bookings increased, various record labels began to show an interest. Eventually the group signed a six-album recording contract with [[EMI]]. The band also changed their name to Radiohead at the behest of the label, the title of a song on [[Talking Heads]]' ''[[True Stories (album)|True Stories]]'' album. The band's debut [[Extended play|EP]] was produced by their managers Chris Hufford and Bryce Edge, of the local Courtyard Studios. Both remain Radiohead's managers to this day. However, shortly after releasing ''[[Drill (EP)|Drill]]'' in March 1992, the band hired Paul Kolderie and Sean Slade, known for their work with the [[Pixies]] and [[Dinosaur Jr.]], to produce their first full-length [[studio album]]. Radiohead's first album was finished in three weeks in an Oxford studio.

The members of Radiohead met while attending [[Abingdon School]], a [[Private schools in the United Kingdom|private]] school for boys in [[Abingdon-on-Thames|Abingdon, Oxfordshire]].<ref name="MCLEAN">{{cite news |last=McLean |first=Craig |title=Don't worry, be happy |newspaper=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |date=14 July 2003 |url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/dont-worry-be-happy-20030614-gdgxei.html|access-date=25 December 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191001040219/https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/dont-worry-be-happy-20030614-gdgxei.html|archive-date=1 October 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> The guitarist and singer [[Thom Yorke]] and the bassist [[Colin Greenwood]] were in the same year; the guitarist [[Ed O'Brien]] was one year above, and the drummer [[Philip Selway]] was in the year above O'Brien.<ref name="AbingdonArchives">{{Cite web |title=Radiohead |url=https://archives.abingdon.org.uk/content/uncategorized/radiohead |url-status= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240821213232/https://archives.abingdon.org.uk/content/uncategorized/radiohead |archive-date=21 August 2024 |access-date=21 August 2024 |website=Abingdon School Archives |language=en}}</ref> Colin's brother, the multi-instrumentalist [[Jonny Greenwood]], was three years below Colin and Yorke and the last to join.<ref name="AbingdonArchives" />

[[Image:Jonny Greenwood.jpg|thumb|left|220px|Jonny Greenwood]]

With the limited release of single "[[Creep (song)|Creep]]" in 1992, the band began to receive interest from the British music press, not all of it favourable. One journalist called them "a lily livered excuse for a rock band," and after a few plays the single was blacklisted from [[BBC Radio 1]] for being too depressing. The band subsequently released its debut album ''[[Pablo Honey]]'' in 1993. They began touring America, issued the irreverent stand-alone single "[[Pop Is Dead]]" (which they soon came to regret), and then nearly broke up over the pressure of sudden success when "Creep" unexpectedly became a smash hit. Although representing a style from which the band would later move, songs like "Anyone Can Play Guitar," "Stop Whispering," "Thinking About You," and "You" also gained considerable popularity for their heart-on-sleeve songwriting, causing Radiohead to be seen as a "British [[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana]]." The ''Pablo Honey'' supporting tour moved into its second year as the album continued to break internationally, fueled by "Creep," which remains the band's largest worldwide hit.

In 1985, the group formed On a Friday, the name referring to their usual rehearsal day in the school's music room.<ref name="guitar-world">{{cite journal |author=Randall |first=Mac |date=1 April 1998 |title=The Golden Age of Radiohead |url=https://www.guitarworld.com/radiohead-interview-golden-age-radiohead |journal=[[Guitar World]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170903205835/http://www.guitarworld.com/radiohead-interview-golden-age-radiohead |archive-date=3 September 2017}}</ref> The band disliked the school's strict atmosphere—the headmaster once charged them for using a rehearsal room on a Sunday—and found solace in the music department. They credited their music teacher for introducing them to [[jazz]], [[film scores]], postwar [[avant-garde music]], and [[20th-century classical music]].<ref name="ROSS">{{cite news |last=Ross |first=Alex |author-link=Alex Ross |date=20 August 2001 |title=The Searchers |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2001/08/20/the-searchers |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080214053947/http://www.therestisnoise.com/2004/04/mahler_1.html |archive-date=14 February 2008 |access-date=16 March 2011 |newspaper=[[The New Yorker]]}}</ref>

Radiohead set to work on their second album. The hiring of veteran producer [[John Leckie]] contributed significantly to the sound of the album. "The best part about working with John Leckie," Jonny recalls, "was that he didn't dictate anything to us. He allowed us to figure out what we wanted to do ourselves." Nevertheless, tensions were high as the band felt smothered by "Creep's" success and the pressures of creating a superior follow-up mounted. Recalling these sessions, Leckie recounted: "It was either going to be 'Sulk', 'The Bends', 'Nice Dream', or 'Just'. We had to give those absolute attention, make them amazing, instant smash hits number 1 in America. Everyone was pulling their hair and saying, 'It's not good enough!' We were trying too hard!" The band responded by seeking a change of scenery, quitting the studio and touring [[Australasia]] and the Far East in an attempt to relax the atmosphere.

[[File:Radiohead Curfew advert.jpg|thumb|upright=0.9|Advertisement placed in the Oxford music magazine ''[[Nightshift (magazine)|Curfew]]'' announcing On a Friday's change of name<ref>{{cite news |date=13 March 2016 |title=Radiohead, Foals and 25 years of discovering Oxford music |language=en-GB |work=[[BBC News]] |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-33176717|url-status=live|access-date=14 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314074533/http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-33176717|archive-date=14 March 2016}}</ref>]]While each member contributed songs in the band's early period, Yorke emerged as the main songwriter.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Randall |first=Mac |date=9 June 2023 |title=Philip Selway: Tidal Backstory |url=https://tidal.com/magazine/article/philip-selway-backstory/1-91629 |access-date=15 June 2023 |website=[[Tidal (service)|Tidal]]}}</ref> According to Colin, the band members picked their instruments because they wanted to play together, rather than through any particular interest: "It was more of a collective angle, and if you could contribute by having someone else play your instrument, then that was really cool."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2001/0915/01091500133.html |title=Taking Music To Strange Places |last=Kelly |first=John |date=15 September 2001 |newspaper=The Irish Times|access-date=16 June 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121012072827/http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2001/0915/01091500133.html|archive-date=12 October 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> They played few gigs, and focused on rehearsing in village halls.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Graham |first=Jane |date=20 October 2024 |title=Colin Greenwood: 'I never let Jonny forget it was me that got him into Radiohead' |url=https://www.bigissue.com/culture/music/colin-greenwood-interview-radiohead-jonny-music/ |access-date=20 October 2024 |website=[[The Big Issue]] |language=en-US}}</ref> [[Oxford]] had an active [[independent music]] scene in the late 1980s, but it centred on [[shoegazing]] bands such as [[Ride (band)|Ride]] and [[Slowdive]].<ref name="KENT">{{cite journal |last=Kent |first=Nick |author-link=Nick Kent |date=1 June 2001 |title=Happy now? |journal=[[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]]}}</ref> On a Friday played their first gig in 1987 at Oxford's [[Jericho Tavern]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Randall |first=Mac |title=Exit Music: The Radiohead Story |date=12 September 2000 |publisher=Delta |isbn=0-385-33393-5}}</ref>

The EP ''[[My Iron Lung]]'' (1994), featuring the single of the same title, was released while the band were touring and marked a transitional stage between the pop-rock of ''Pablo Honey'' and the musical depth of their second album. Having developed the remainder of the songs on the road, they returned to Britain and completed the album in a fortnight in late 1994, mixing and releasing ''[[The Bends]]'' in May (1995). The band finally earned British success (amid a sea of [[Britpop]]) and won new fans with the album's densely layered guitar atmospheres and Thom Yorke's expressive, often [[falsetto]], singing. Singles included "[[Fake Plastic Trees]]," "[[Just (song)|Just]]," and "[[High and Dry]]," but major success for the album did not come until the release of final single "[[Street Spirit (Fade Out)]]", which hit the Top 5 in the UK.

On the strength of an early demo, On a Friday were offered a record deal by [[Island Records]], but they decided they were not ready and wanted to go to university first.<ref>{{Cite web |title=BBC Radio 4 – Desert Island Discs – Ten things we learned from Thom Yorke's Desert Island Discs |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/b7zfNZjlKBK3r8s9t9ldhx/ten-things-we-learned-from-thom-yorkes-desert-island-discs |access-date=23 September 2019 |website=[[BBC]] |language=en-GB}}</ref> They continued to rehearse on weekends and holidays,<ref name="ROSS" /> but did not perform for four years.<ref name="guitar-world" /> At the [[University of Exeter]], Yorke played with the band Headless Chickens, performing songs including future Radiohead material.<ref>{{cite web |last=Minsker |first=Evan |date=13 July 2015 |title=Rare footage surfaces of Thom Yorke performing 'High and Dry' with pre-Radiohead band |url=https://pitchfork.com/news/60375-rare-footage-surfaces-of-thom-yorke-performing-high-and-dry-with-pre-radiohead-band/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150715025618/http://pitchfork.com/news/60375-rare-footage-surfaces-of-thom-yorke-performing-high-and-dry-with-pre-radiohead-band/|archive-date=15 July 2015|access-date=16 July 2015 |website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]}}</ref> He also met [[Stanley Donwood]], who later became Radiohead's cover artist.<ref name="EYE">{{cite web |url=https://www.eyestorm.com/artists/profile/Stanley_Donwood.html |title=Stanley Donwood |publisher=Eyestorm|access-date=29 May 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070516152202/http://www.eyestorm.com/artists/profile/Stanley_Donwood.html|archive-date=16 May 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In summer 1995, Radiohead toured with R.E.M.- one of their strongest influences and by then one of the biggest rock bands in the world. Introducing his opening act, [[Michael Stipe]] said "Radiohead are so good, they're scary," and the two bands have continued their close relationship since, with Stipe often acting as a mentor to his friend Yorke. The buzz generated by such famous fans, along with a series of distinctive [[music videos]] such as "[[Just (song)#Music video|Just]]," helped to expand Radiohead's name outside the UK.

In 1991, the band regrouped in Oxford, sharing a house on the corner of Magdalen Road and Ridgefield Road.<ref name="Fricke-2012">{{cite magazine |last=Fricke |first=David |author-link=David Fricke |date=26 April 2012 |title=Radiohead reconnect |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/radiohead-reconnect-20120426 |url-status=live |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160317233858/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/radiohead-reconnect-20120426 |archive-date=17 March 2016 |access-date=15 March 2016}}</ref> They recorded another demo, which attracted the attention of Chris Hufford, Slowdive's producer and the co-owner of Oxford's Courtyard Studios.<ref name="Doyle-2008">{{Cite journal |last=Doyle |first=Tom |date=April 2008 |title=The complete Radiohead |journal=[[Q (magazine)|Q]] |publisher=[[Bauer Media Group]] |volume=261 |pages=65–69 |issn=0955-4955}}</ref> Hufford and his business partner, Bryce Edge, attended a concert at the Jericho Tavern; impressed, they became On a Friday's managers.<ref name="Doyle-2008" /> According to Hufford, at this point the band had "all of the elements of Radiohead", but with a rougher, punkier sound and faster tempos.<ref name="Gilbert-1996">{{Cite journal |last=Gilbert |first=Pat |date=November 1996 |title=Radiohead |journal=[[Record Collector]]}}</ref> At Courtyard Studios, On a Friday recorded the ''Manic Hedgehog'' demo tape, named after an Oxford record shop.<ref name="Gilbert-1996" />

According to Phil Selway, "When ''The Bends'' came out everyone went on about how uncommercial that was. Twelve months later it was being hailed as a pop classic. The record company were worried there wasn't a single on it- and we ended up with five top 30 hits from it!" However, while critically acclaimed, in the rest of the world the album failed to match the commercial success of "Creep."

In late 1991, Colin happened to meet the [[EMI]] [[A&R]] representative Keith Wozencroft at a record shop and handed him a copy of the demo.<ref name="Doyle-2008" /> Wozencroft was impressed and attended a performance.<ref name="Doyle-2008" /> That November, On a Friday performed at the Jericho Tavern to an audience that included several A&R representatives. It was only their eighth gig, but they had attracted interest from several record companies.<ref name="Doyle-2008" /> A ''[[Melody Maker]]'' review praised their promise and "astonishing intensity", but said their name was "terrible".<ref name="Irvin-1997" /> On 21 December, On a Friday signed a six-album recording contract with EMI.<ref name="ROSS" /><ref name="Doyle-2008" /> At EMI's request, they changed their name; "Radiohead" was taken from the song "Radio Head" on the [[Talking Heads]] album ''[[True Stories (Talking Heads album)|True Stories]]'' (1986).<ref name="ROSS" /> Yorke said the name "sums up all these things about receiving stuff ... It's about the way you take information in, the way you respond to the environment you're put in."<ref name="Doyle-2008" />

===(1996-1998) ''OK Computer'' ===

Thom Yorke said that ''The Bends'' succeeded because "we had to put ourselves into an environment where we felt free to work. And that's why we want to produce the next one ourselves, because the times we most got off on making the last record were when we were just completely communicating with ourselves, and John Leckie wasn't really saying much, and it was just all happening".

=== 1992–1994: "Creep", ''Pablo Honey'' and early success ===

One new song was already recorded for the album: "[[Lucky (Radiohead song)|Lucky]]", which was recorded in September 1995 for the [http://www.warchild.com War Child] charity's ''[[The Help Album]]''. Radiohead also contributed two songs to [[Baz Luhrmann]]'s 1996 adaptation of ''[[Romeo and Juliet (1996 film)|Romeo and Juliet]]'', "[[Talk Show Host]]" and "[[Exit Music (For a Film)]]." The former was a remix of one of the [[b-sides]] to "Street Spirit (Fade Out)," a single from ''The Bends''. The latter was a new song, to be included eventually on the band's next album.

Radiohead recorded their debut EP, ''[[Drill (EP)|Drill]]'', with Hufford and Edge at Courtyard Studios. Released in May 1992, its chart performance was poor.<ref name="guitar-world" /> As it was difficult for [[major labels]] such as EMI to promote bands in the UK, where [[Independent record label|independent labels]] dominated the [[indie charts]], Radiohead's managers planned to have Radiohead use American producers and tour aggressively in America, then return to build a following in the UK.<ref name="popisdead-1" /> [[Paul Q. Kolderie|Paul Kolderie]] and [[Sean Slade]], who had worked with the US bands [[Pixies (band)|Pixies]] and [[Dinosaur Jr.]], were enlisted to produce Radiohead's debut album, ''[[Pablo Honey]],'' recorded quickly in Oxford in 1992.<ref name="guitar-world" /> With the release of their debut single, "[[Creep (Radiohead song)|Creep]]", that September, Radiohead began to receive attention in the British music press, not all of it favourable; ''[[NME]]'' described them as "a lily-livered excuse for a rock band",<ref name="FREQUENCY">{{cite news |title=Radiohead: The right frequency |date=22 February 2001 |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1182725.stm |newspaper=BBC News|access-date=24 November 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110728142710/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1182725.stm|archive-date=28 July 2011|url-status=live}}</ref> and "Creep" was blacklisted by [[BBC Radio 1]] as "too depressing".<ref>{{cite news |title=Creepshow |newspaper=[[Melody Maker]] |date=19 December 1992}}</ref>

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With the assistance of engineer [[Nigel Godrich]], Radiohead did produce their next album themselves, buying their own recording gear and beginning work in early 1996. By July they had recorded four songs with producer Godrich at their rehearsal studio, Canned Applause, a converted apple shed near [[Didcot]], Oxfordshire. Their plan was to stay away from traditional recording studios and the bad vibes they'd previously set off in the band. Having learnt from ''The Bends'', they decided to perform and perfect the songs live, briefly touring as opening act for [[Alanis Morissette]], before completing the record. The rest was recorded in actress [[Jane Seymour (actress)|Jane Seymour]]'s 15th-century mansion in St. Catherine's Court near Bath. The recording sessions were relaxed, with the band playing at all hours of the day, recording songs in different rooms, and blasting [[DJ Shadow]], [[Ennio Morricone]] and [[the Beatles]]' "[[I Am the Walrus]]" through the house for inspiration. Unfortunately, some of the same tension present during ''The Bends'' sessions appeared once again during the track selection for ''OK Computer''. By the end of the year the album was finished and in February and March it was mixed and mastered.

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Radiohead released ''[[OK Computer]]'' in the summer of [[1997]], to great critical acclaim. A melodic rock album, ''OK Computer'' also found Radiohead introducing uncommon musical elements, experimenting with [[ambient|ambience]] and [[noise music|noise]] to create a set of songs that many consider a high point of twentieth-century rock music. It is among the [[pop albums that have consistently appeared in top lists]]. ''OK Computer'' included the singles "[[Paranoid Android]]," "[[Karma Police]]," and "[[No Surprises]]" (as well as "[[Let Down]]," a fan favourite whose planned single release was cancelled). It received a [[Grammy Award]] for [[Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album|Best Alternative Album]], and a nomination for [[Grammy Award for Album of the Year|Album of the Year]].

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''Pablo Honey'' was released in February 1993. It reached number 22 in the UK charts. "Creep" and its follow-up singles "Anyone Can Play Guitar" and "[[Stop Whispering]]" failed to become hits, and "[[Pop Is Dead]]", a non-album single, also sold poorly. O'Brien later called it "a hideous mistake".<ref name="popisdead-1">{{cite book |author=Randall |first=Mac |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GU9QmQEpLoYC&q=%22Pop+Is+Dead%22+radiohead&pg=PT112 |title=Exit Music – The Radiohead Story |publisher=[[Omnibus Press]] |year=2011 |isbn=978-0-85712-695-5}}</ref> Some critics compared Radiohead to the wave of [[grunge]] music popular in the early 1990s, dubbing them "[[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana]]-lite",<ref name="SMITH">{{cite news |last=Smith |first=Andrew |date=1 October 2000 |title=Sound and Fury |url=http://observer.guardian.co.uk/life/story/0,6903,375564,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031226112721/http://observer.guardian.co.uk/life/story/0%2C6903%2C375564%2C00.html |archive-date=26 December 2003 |access-date=17 March 2007 |newspaper=[[The Observer]] |___location=London}}</ref> and ''Pablo Honey'' initially failed to make a critical or a commercial impact.<ref name="FREQUENCY" /> The members of Radiohead expressed dissatisfaction with the album in later years.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Klein |first=Joshua |date=26 February 2007 |title=Various artists: ''Jonny Greenwood Is the Controller'' Album Review |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/9911-jonny-greenwood-is-the-controller/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210310040933/https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/9911-jonny-greenwood-is-the-controller/ |archive-date=10 March 2021 |access-date=23 June 2016 |website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]}}</ref>

In early 1993, Radiohead began to attract listeners elsewhere. "Creep" had become a hit in Israel after it was played frequently by the influential DJ [[Yoav Kutner]], and, in March, Radiohead were invited to [[Tel Aviv]] for their first show overseas.<ref>{{cite news |last=Rubinstein |first=Harry |title=The Radiohead&nbsp;— Israel connection |newspaper=israelity.com |url=http://israelity.com/2009/01/20/the-radiohead-israel-connection/ |date=20 January 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090515111700/http://israelity.com/2009/01/20/the-radiohead-israel-connection/|archive-date=15 May 2009}}</ref> Around the same time, "Creep" became a hit in America, a "[[slacker]] anthem" in the vein of "[[Smells Like Teen Spirit]]" by [[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana]] and "[[Loser (Beck song)|Loser]]" by [[Beck]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Marzorati |first=Gerald |date=1 October 2000 |title=The post-rock band |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/01/magazine/the-post-rock-band.html |access-date=28 July 2008 |work=[[The New York Times]] |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> It reached number two on the ''Billboard'' [[Alternative Airplay|Modern Rock chart]],<ref name="ROSS" /> number 34 on the ''Billboard'' [[Hot 100]] chart,<ref name="Irvin-1997">{{cite journal |last1=Irvin |first1=Jim|author-link=Jim Irvin |last2=Hoskyns |first2=Barney |date=July 1997 |title=We have lift-off! |journal=[[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]] |issue=45}}</ref> and number seven on the [[UK singles chart]] when EMI rereleased it in September.<ref name="BILL" /> To build on the success, Radiohead embarked on a US tour supporting [[Belly (band)|Belly]] and [[PJ Harvey]],<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Nichols |first=Natalie |date=Fall 1993 |title=Creeping into the Limelight |journal=Fender Frontline |publisher=The Phelps Group |volume=11}}</ref> followed by a European tour supporting [[James (band)|James]] and [[Tears for Fears]].<ref name="Irvin-1997" /><ref name="Gilbert-1996" />

''OK Computer'' was followed by a world tour, nicknamed "Against Demons," the band's biggest yet. [[Grant Gee]], the director of the "No Surprises" video, accompanied the band on their tour and filmed it, which resulted in the "fly on the wall" documentary ''[[Meeting People Is Easy]]'' (released in 1999). Rather than stereotypical rock n' roll behaviour, the film depicted the band's disaffection from the music industry and showed their burnout as they progressed from their first concert dates in mid-1997 to mid-1998, nearly a year later. The band also released a compilation of their music videos (''[[7 Television Commercials]]''), and two EPs ''[[Running From Demons|No Surprises/Running From Demons]]'' (1997) and ''[[Airbag/How Am I Driving?]]'' (1998) during this time. The more notable is the second, which has songs that could be described as a bridge between the [[progressive rock|progressive]] [[alternative rock]] of ''OK Computer'' and their subsequent more atmospheric work.

===(1999-2001) 1994–1995: ''KidThe ABends'', critical recognition and ''Amnesiac''growing fanbase ===

Exhausted by fame and on the verge of burning out following their 1997-1998 world tour, the band spent the next year in relative quiet. Thom Yorke later admitted that during that period the band were close to splitting up, and that he himself had developed mild [[depression (mood)|depression]]. Radiohead's only appearance later that year was at an [[Amnesty International]] concert in Paris ([[10 December]], 1998). In 1999 Thom and Jonny performed alone at the [[Tibetan Freedom Concert]] in Amsterdam, debuting a new work, "Egyptian Song" (later known as "[[Pyramid Song]]"), and the band's only public performance was in an [[Internet]] [[webcast]] to their fans, introducing the new song "[[Knives Out]]." Neither of these songs would see commercial release until 2001.

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In early 1999 Radiohead began work on a follow-up to ''OK Computer'', but in a less organised fashion than with their previous albums. Although there was no longer any pressure or even a deadline from their record label, tension during this period was high. Different members had different visions for the band's future, and Yorke, who made the tie-breaking decisions, was experiencing [[writer's block]]. Eventually all members got behind the new musical direction, redefining their roles in the band. For the first time the band recorded without considering live performance, secluding themselves with producer [[Nigel Godrich]] in a series of different studios from [[Paris]] to [[Copenhagen]] to [[Gloucester]] to their own studio, newly complete in [[Oxford]], in the process paring down about 40 new songs to the 30 which ultimately made their subsequent two records and accompanying b-sides.<ref>O'Brien, Ed. Studio diary from ''Kid A'' and ''Amnesiac'' recording sessions, 1999-2000. [http://www.greenplastic.com/coldstorage/articles/edsdiary/index.php archived at green plastic]</ref> Radiohead refused to create a stylistic sequel to ''OK Computer''. The result was a more minimalist and textured style featuring less overt guitar and more diverse instrumentation (such as the [[ondes martenot]], electronic beats, strings, and jazz horns), but one which retained some of the lyrical and musical hooks of their earlier records. "The trick is to try and carry on doing things that interest you, but not turn into some art-rock nonsense just for its own sake," Colin Greenwood said of the recording sessions,<ref>Eccleston, Danny. ''Q'' magazine feature and interview, October 2000. [http://www.followmearound.com/presscuttings.php?year=2000&cutting=89&PHPSESSID=c033bc19e81ba698894f33e264541fc4 archived at follow me around]</ref> which were completed in late spring of 2000, after nearly 18 months.

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''[[Kid A]]'', released on [[October 2]], [[2000]], was the first of two albums taken from these recording sessions. Synthesised, claustrophobic, alternately lush and abrasive, with ever more cryptic lyrics, the album stunned both the music industry and Radiohead's fan base for its departures from their past work and from pop conventions. The band declined to release any singles from ''Kid A'', apparently suggesting the album should be listened to as a whole (however, a promo of "Optimistic" received some radio play). Instead, a series of "video blips" or "antivideos" were created by video directors Chris Bran and [[Shynola]]; these 30-second largely animated videos were seen to tie in with the album's anti-consumerist themes.<ref>Tate, Joseph. "Radiohead's Antivideos: Works of Art in the Age of Electronic Reproduction." ''Postmodern Culture'', May 2002. Volume 12, Number 3. also reprinted in ''[[The Music and Art of Radiohead]]'', edited by Tate, 2005.[http://www3.iath.virginia.edu/pmc/issue.502/12.3tate.html]</ref>

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Radiohead began work on their second album in 1994 with the veteran [[Abbey Road Studios]] producer [[John Leckie]]. Tensions were high, with mounting expectations to match the success of "Creep".<ref>{{cite journal |first=Johnny |last=Black |title=The Greatest Songs Ever! Fake Plastic Trees |date=1 June 2003 |journal=[[Blender (magazine)|Blender]] |url=http://www.blender.com/guide/articles.aspx?id=824|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070409000921/http://blender.com/guide/articles.aspx?id=824|archive-date=9 April 2007|access-date=15 April 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref> To break a deadlock, Radiohead toured Asia, Australasia and Mexico and found greater confidence performing their new music live.<ref>{{cite book |last=Randall |first=Mac |title=Exit Music: The Radiohead Story |date=12 September 2000 |publisher=Delta |isbn=0-385-33393-5 |pages=127–134}}</ref> However, troubled by his new fame, Yorke became disillusioned with being "at the sharp end of the sexy, sassy, MTV eye-candy lifestyle" he felt he was helping to sell to the world.<ref name="REYNOLDS">{{cite web |last=Reynolds |first=Simon |date=July 2001 |title=Walking on thin ice |url=https://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Article/radiohead-walking-on-thin-ice |url-access=subscription |access-date=10 March 2024 |work=[[The Wire (magazine)|The Wire]]}}</ref>

Yet the "difficult" ''Kid A'' achieved Radiohead's highest worldwide chart placement to date, debuting at number 1 in many countries, including the United States. Its top position on the [[Billboard]] album chart (where ''OK Computer'' had reached a peak of #22) marked a first for the band, identifying them as one of the few modern British pop artists to penetrate the American market,<ref>BBC News. "US success for Radiohead." 14 June, 2001.[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1389135.stm]</ref><ref>Jenkins, Mark. "The End of the British Invasion." ''Slate'', May 3, 2002.[http://www.slate.com/id/2065252/]</ref> though the album fell off soon after. ''Kid A'''s success has been attributed both to massive hype and to the early availability of all the songs on the Internet file-sharing network [[Napster]], accustoming fans to the new musical style,<ref>Menta, Richard. "Did Napster Take Radiohead's New Album to Number 1?" ''MP3 Newswire'', October 28, 2000.[http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/2000/radiohead.html]</ref> but it was also a clear result of anticipation after ''OK Computer''.<ref>Oldham, James. "Radiohead - Their Stupendous Return." ''NME'', 24 June, 2000. [http://www.followmearound.com/presscuttings.php?year=2000&cutting=75 archived at follow me around]</ref>

[[Image:Ed_O'Brien_singing_Radiohead_at_Blackpool.jpg|thumb|right|Ed O'Brien]]

Like its predecessor, ''Kid A'' ultimately received a [[Grammy Award]] for [[Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album|Best Alternative Album]] and a nomination for [[Grammy Award for Album of the Year|Album of the Year]], and also appeared on many best-of-year lists. But while the press continued to brand Radiohead one of the world's most "important" rock bands, ''Kid A'' did not inspire universal praise. "I think a lot of writers expected us to come back with a combination of ''OK Computer'' and ''The Bends''. The fact that we didn't do that means people who got their guitars out have had to put them back into the wardrobe," said Jonny Greenwood.<ref>BBC Music. Interview with Jonny Greenwood, 2000. [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/world/ram/wradiohead.ram audio]</ref> However, the record also cemented Radiohead's enigmatic image, gaining them plaudits for courage and innovation. While some fans were mystified or appalled, many others now see it as the band's best work.

The ''[[My Iron Lung]]'' EP and single, released in 1994, was Radiohead's reaction, marking a transition towards the greater depth they aimed for on their second album.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Mallins |first=Steve |date=1 April 1995 |title=Scuba Do |journal=[[Vox (magazine)|Vox]]}}</ref> It was Radiohead's first collaboration with their future producer, [[Nigel Godrich]], then working under Leckie as an [[audio engineer]],<ref name="McKinnon-2006">{{cite news |last=McKinnon |first=Matthew |date=24 July 2006 |title=Everything in its right place |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/everything-in-its-right-place-1.587693 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303170935/http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/everything-in-its-right-place-1.587693 |archive-date=3 March 2016 |access-date=12 April 2016 |website=[[CBC Arts]]}}</ref> and the artist [[Stanley Donwood]]. Both have worked on every Radiohead album since.<ref name="EYE" /> Though sales of ''My Iron Lung'' were low, it boosted Radiohead's credibility in alternative circles, creating commercial opportunity for their next album.<ref>{{cite book |last=Randall |first=Mac |title=Exit Music: The Radiohead Story |date=12 September 2000 |pages=98–99 |isbn=0-385-33393-5 |publisher=Delta}}</ref>

Inspired by [[Naomi Klein]]'s [[anti-globalization]] manifesto ''[[No Logo]]'', the band mounted a tour of Europe during this period in a big top tent free of corporate logos, but performed only three small theatre dates in North America. These concerts sold out instantly and attracted many celebrities. Along with songs from ''Kid A'' (which had been reworked for live performance after the album was finished) the band performed songs that had been recorded, but not yet released. Having rejected the possibility of a double album before ''Kid A'', they now considered a series of [[Extended play|EPs]] or singles, before settling on another album to contain the remaining material. In the meantime, a "special edition" version of ''Kid A'' was released, packaged as a children's book and featuring additional art by [[Stanley Donwood]] and Tchock (Yorke's pseudonym).

Having introduced more new songs on tour, Radiohead finished recording their second album, ''[[The Bends (album)|The Bends]]'', by 1995, and released it that March. It was driven by dense riffs and ethereal atmospheres, with greater use of keyboards.<ref name="guitar-world" /> It received stronger reviews for its songwriting and performances.<ref name="FREQUENCY" /> While Radiohead were seen as outsiders to the [[Britpop]] scene that dominated music media at the time, they were finally successful in the UK,<ref name="KENT" /> as the singles "[[Fake Plastic Trees]]", "[[High and Dry]]", "[[Just (song)|Just]]", and "[[Street Spirit (Fade Out)]]" became chart successes. "High and Dry" became a modest hit, but Radiohead's growing fanbase was insufficient to repeat the worldwide success of "Creep". ''The Bends'' reached number 88 on the US album charts, and remains Radiohead's lowest showing there.<ref name="art-rock" /> Jonny Greenwood later said ''The Bends'' was turning point for Radiohead: "It started appearing in people's [best-of] polls for the end of the year. That's when it started to feel like we made the right choice about being a band."<ref name="LAUNCH">{{cite journal |last=DiMartino |first=Dave |title=Give Radiohead to Your Computer |journal=[[Yahoo! Music|LAUNCH]] |date=2 May 1997}}</ref> In later years, ''The Bends'' appeared in many publications' lists of the best albums of all time,<ref>{{citation |title=Beatles, Radiohead albums voted best ever |date=4 September 2000 |url=http://archives.cnn.com/2000/SHOWBIZ/Music/09/04/britain.albums/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080522120621/http://archives.cnn.com/2000/SHOWBIZ/Music/09/04/britain.albums/ |work=CNN.com|access-date=8 October 2008|archive-date=22 May 2008}}<br />{{cite journal |date=February 1998 |title=Q Readers All Time Top 100 Albums |journal=[[Q (magazine)|Q]] |issue=137}}<br />{{cite web |url=http://www.listsofbests.com/list/13644-q-readers-best-albums-ever-2006-readers-poll |title=Q Magazine's Q Readers Best Albums Ever (2006 Readers Poll) Archived by Lists of Bests |work=[[Q (magazine)|Q]]|access-date=15 March 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131231034303/http://www.listsofbests.com/list/13644-q-readers-best-albums-ever-2006-readers-poll|archive-date=31 December 2013}}</ref> including ''[[Rolling Stone]]'s'' 2012 edition of the [[Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time|"500 Greatest Albums of All Time"]] at No. 111.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-20120531/radiohead-the-bends-20120524 |title=500 Greatest Albums of All Time |magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=18 July 2016 |date=31 May 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160717125207/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-20120531/radiohead-the-bends-20120524|archive-date=17 July 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>

Radiohead's next album, ''[[Amnesiac]]'', was released in June 2001, and comprised further tracks from the same recording sessions. Conceived as complementary but distinct sequences of songs, the two albums are similar in style and influence, a connection made explicit in the selection of different versions of the song "Morning Bell" appearing on both records. ''Amnesiac'' saw the band's sound coalesce into an even more genre-blurring hybrid of [[electronic music]], [[avant garde]] [[jazz]] and [[art rock]], though in contrast to ''Kid A'', it did feature slightly more accessible songs, notably the piano ballad "[[Pyramid Song]]" (Radiohead's first single since 1997), and the guitar single "Knives Out." ''Amnesiac'' is often viewed by critics as the less accomplished of the two works and has been criticised for a lack of cohesion. However, without quite matching its predecessor's sales, it was critically acclaimed and a moderate commercial success.

After ''Amnesiac's'' release, the band embarked on a months-long world tour, concentrating on large outdoor venues and visiting North America, Europe and Japan, though the tour was much smaller than that for ''OK Computer'' four years earlier. Radiohead also staged their own summer mini-festival in [[Oxford]]'s South Park, featuring [[Beck]], [[Sigur Rós]], [[Supergrass]], and [[Humphrey Lyttelton]] (who played [[trumpet]] on ''Amnesiac'''s closing track, "Life in a Glasshouse"). "I Might Be Wrong," initially planned as a third single release from ''Amnesiac'', eventually expanded into the band's first and thus far only live record. Released in fall 2001, ''[[I Might Be Wrong|I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings]]'' featured performances of ''Kid A'' and ''Amnesiac'' material from concerts in Berlin, Paris and London, among others. The "mini" album's live versions of "[[The National Anthem]]," "I Might Be Wrong," and "[[Like Spinning Plates]]" were notably different from the studio recordings, and it also contained a song previously unreleased on an album, the long-time fan favourite "True Love Waits".

In 1995, Radiohead again toured North America and Europe, this time in support of [[R.E.M.]], one of their formative influences and at the time one of the biggest rock bands in the world.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.westnet.com/consumable/1995/May08.1995/revradio.html |title=Radiohead's Phil Selway |last=Harding |first=Nigel |newspaper=consumable.com|access-date=28 May 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070810101504/http://www.westnet.com/consumable/1995/May08.1995/revradio.html|archive-date=10 August 2007|url-status=dead |year=1995}}</ref> Attention from famous fans such as the R.E.M. singer [[Michael Stipe]], along with distinctive music videos for "Just" and "Street Spirit", helped sustain Radiohead's popularity outside the UK.<ref>Randall, p. 127</ref> The night before a performance in Denver, Colorado, Radiohead's tour van was stolen, and with it their musical equipment. Yorke and Jonny Greenwood performed a stripped-down acoustic set with rented instruments and several shows were cancelled.<ref name="StolenEquipment">{{Cite news |url=https://www.denverpost.com/2015/02/23/radioheads-jonny-greenwood-reunited-guitar-stolen-in-denver-in-1995/ |title=Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood reunited with guitar stolen in Denver in 1995 |date=23 February 2015 |work=[[The Denver Post]]|access-date=11 January 2019 |language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180923200713/https://www.denverpost.com/2015/02/23/radioheads-jonny-greenwood-reunited-guitar-stolen-in-denver-in-1995/|archive-date=23 September 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>{{refn|group=nb|Greenwood was reunited with one of the stolen guitars in 2015 after a fan recognised it as one they had purchased in Denver in the 1990s.<ref name="StolenEquipment" />}} Their first live video, ''[[Live at the Astoria]]'', was released in 1995.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Skinner |first=Tom |date=27 May 2020 |title=Radiohead to stream classic ''Live at the Astoria'' show in full |url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/radiohead-to-stream-classic-live-at-the-astoria-show-in-full-2677066|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200606082132/https://www.nme.com/news/music/radiohead-to-stream-classic-live-at-the-astoria-show-in-full-2677066|archive-date=6 June 2020|access-date=2 June 2020 |website=[[NME]] |language=en-GB}}</ref>

===(2002-2004) ''Hail to the Thief'' ===

On the heels of the ''Amnesiac'' tour the band took new material on the road in [[Portugal]] and [[Spain]] during July and August 2002. Using this opportunity to flesh out and finalise the songs before an audience of their fans, the band subsequently completed the album in only two weeks in a [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]] studio with Nigel Godrich, with a few additional recordings done later in Oxford. According to interviews, the band was seeking to lessen their perfectionist tendencies and find more of a "swaggering" live sound in the studio.

=== 1995–1998: ''OK Computer'' and acclaim ===

The band released their sixth album ''[[Hail to the Thief]]'' in June [[2003]]. The record is considered as an attempt to distill the more [[electronic music|electronic]] and experimental influences of the previous two albums, and fuse them with the guitar-based [[rock music]] of Radiohead's early albums. At 14 tracks and nearly an hour long, the album is the longest the band has released. ''Hail to the Thief'' garnered broadly positive reviews, tempered by the opinion in some quarters that the band were treading water rather than continuing the 'genre-redefining' trend that ''[[OK Computer]]'' and ''[[Kid A]]'' had begun. It was nominated for a [[Grammy Award]] for [[Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album|Best Alternative Album]], the band's fifth straight nomination in that category (including the ''[[Airbag/How Am I Driving?|Airbag]]'' [[Extended play|EP]]).

[[File:Thom Yorke 1998.jpg|alt=|thumb|190x190px|Yorke performing with Radiohead in 1998]]

By late 1995, Radiohead had already recorded one song that would appear on their next record. "[[Lucky (Radiohead song)|Lucky]]", released as a single to promote the [[War Child (charity)|War Child]] charity's ''[[The Help Album]]'',<ref>{{cite news |last=Courtney |first=Kevin |title=Radiohead calling |newspaper=The Irish Times |date=17 May 1997 |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/1997/0517/97051700184.html|access-date=24 December 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726215059/http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/1997/0517/97051700184.html|archive-date=26 July 2011|url-status=live}}</ref> was recorded in a brief session with Nigel Godrich, the young audio engineer who had assisted on ''The Bends''. Radiohead decided to self-produce their next album with Godrich, and began work in early 1996. By July they had recorded four songs at their rehearsal studio, Canned Applause, a converted apple shed in the countryside near [[Didcot]], Oxfordshire.<ref>{{cite journal |first=Adrian |last=Glover |title=Radiohead&nbsp;— Getting More Respect |date=1 August 1997 |journal=[[Circus (magazine)|Circus]]}}</ref> In August 1996, Radiohead toured as the opening act for [[Alanis Morissette]].<ref>{{cite journal |last=Moran |first=Caitlin|author-link=Caitlin Moran |date=July 1997 |title=Everything was just fear. |journal=[[Select (magazine)|Select]] |page=84}}</ref> They resumed recording not at a studio but at [[St. Catherine's Court]], a 15th-century mansion near [[Bath, Somerset|Bath]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.time.com/time/2006/100albums/0,27693,OK_Computer,00.html |title=The All-Time 100 albums |magazine=Time |date=13 November 2006|access-date=11 March 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070307093434/http://www.time.com/time/2006/100albums/0,27693,OK_Computer,00.html|archive-date=7 March 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref> The sessions were relaxed, with the band playing at all hours of the day, recording in different rooms, and listening to [[the Beatles]], [[DJ Shadow]], [[Ennio Morricone]] and [[Miles Davis]] for inspiration.<ref name="guitar-world" /><ref name="LAUNCH" />''

[[File:Radiohead Matters.ogg|thumb|right|[[Colin Greenwood]], [[Jonny Greenwood]], [[Ed O'Brien]], and [[Phil Selway]] discussing ''[[OK Computer]]'' in 1997]]

Radiohead released their third album, ''[[OK Computer]]'', in May 1997. It found the band experimenting with song structures and incorporating [[ambient music|ambient]], [[avant-garde]] and [[electronic music|electronic]] influences, prompting ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' to call the album a "stunning art-rock tour de force".<ref>{{cite magazine |author=Mark Kemp |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/ok-computer-19970710 |title=OK Computer &#124; Album Reviews |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=10 July 1997|access-date=26 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110117031912/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/ok-computer-19970710|archive-date=17 January 2011|url-status=live}}</ref> Radiohead denied being part of the [[progressive rock]] genre, but critics began to compare their work to [[Pink Floyd]]. Some compared ''OK Computer'' thematically to the 1973 Pink Floyd album ''[[The Dark Side of the Moon]]'',<ref>{{Harvnb|Reising|2005|pp=208–211}}<br />{{Harvnb|Griffiths|2004|p=109}}<br />{{Harvnb|Buckley|2003|p=843}}</ref> although Yorke said the lyrics were inspired by observing the "speed" of the world in the 1990s. Yorke's lyrics, embodying different characters, had expressed what one magazine called "end-of-the-millennium blues"<ref>{{cite journal |title=Subterranean Aliens |date=1 September 1997 |journal=Request Magazine}}</ref> in contrast to the more personal songs of ''The Bends''. According to the journalist [[Alex Ross (music critic)|Alex Ross]], Radiohead had become "the poster boys for a certain kind of knowing alienation" as Talking Heads and R.E.M. had been before.<ref name="ROSS" /> ''OK Computer'' received acclaim. Yorke said he was "amazed it got the reaction it did. None of us fucking knew any more whether it was good or bad. What really blew my head off was the fact that people got all the things, all the textures and the sounds and the atmospheres we were trying to create."<ref>{{cite journal |title=Renaissance Men |journal=[[Select (magazine)|Select]] |date=December 1997}}</ref>

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''Hail to the Thief'''s title was widely assumed in the media to be a comment on the [[U.S. presidential election, 2000|controversial U.S. presidential election of 2000]], but Thom Yorke denied this, saying the title had a wider meaning: "If the motivation for naming our album had been based solely on the [current] U.S. election, I'd find that to be pretty shallow." The band has commented that they feared a backlash in America for the title and slightly more direct politics of the lyrics, as had recently befallen the [[Dixie Chicks]] when they spoke against President [[George W. Bush]], and were pleasantly surprised when this did not occur.

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''OK Computer'' was Radiohead's first number-one UK chart debut, and brought them commercial success around the world. Despite peaking at number 21 in the [[Billboard 200|US charts]], the album eventually met with mainstream recognition there, earning Radiohead their first [[Grammy Awards]] recognition, winning [[Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album|Best Alternative Album]] and a nomination for [[Grammy Award for Album of the Year|Album of the Year]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.amug.org/~scrnsrc/grammys_98.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19981201040406/http://www.amug.org/~scrnsrc/grammys_98.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=1 December 1998 |title=Screen Source presents: The 40th Annual Grammy Awards|access-date=20 November 2007 |date=27 February 1998 |work=Screen Source |publisher=amug.com}}</ref> "[[Paranoid Android]]", "[[Karma Police]]" and "[[No Surprises]]" were released as singles, of which "Karma Police" was most successful internationally.<ref name="BILL">{{cite magazine |url={{BillboardURLbyName |artist=radiohead |chart=all}}|title=Radiohead: Artist Chart History|magazine=Billboard|access-date=9 November 2007}}</ref> ''OK Computer'' went on to become a staple of "best-of" British album lists.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3HSuhm6DRGgC&pg=PA28 |title=Radiohead and the Resistant Concept Album: How to Disappear Completely |last=Letts |first=Marianne Tatom |date=2010 |publisher=Indiana University Press |isbn=978-0-253-00491-8 |page=28|access-date=14 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170217094343/https://books.google.com/books?id=3HSuhm6DRGgC&pg=PA28|archive-date=17 February 2017|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/music-news/8219786/Radioheads-OK-Computer-named-best-album-of-the-past-25-years.html |title=Radiohead's OK Computer named best album of the past 25 years |date=22 December 2010 |work=Telegraph.co.uk|access-date=4 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180201214751/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/music-news/8219786/Radioheads-OK-Computer-named-best-album-of-the-past-25-years.html|archive-date=1 February 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> In the same year, Radiohead became one of the first bands in the world to have a website. Within a few years, there were dozens of [[fansite]]s devoted to them.<ref name="Curious Case">{{cite web |url=https://pitchfork.com/features/article/9890-internet-explorers-the-curious-case-of-radioheads-online-fandom/ |title=Internet Explorers: The Curious Case of Radiohead's Online Fandom |last=Jeremy |first=Gordon |date=12 May 2016 |website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160512175336/http://pitchfork.com/features/article/9890-internet-explorers-the-curious-case-of-radioheads-online-fandom/|archive-date=12 May 2016|access-date=21 October 2019}}</ref>

''OK Computer'' was followed by the year-long Against Demons world tour, including Radiohead's first headline [[Glastonbury Festival]] performance in 1997.<ref name="Glastonbury 2017">{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/oct/20/radiohead-glastonbury-2017-festival-headliners-confirmed-pyramid-stage-worthy-farm |title=Radiohead are confirmed as first headliners for Glastonbury 2017 |last=Hann |first=Michael |date=20 October 2016 |newspaper=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077|access-date=20 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161021012906/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/oct/20/radiohead-glastonbury-2017-festival-headliners-confirmed-pyramid-stage-worthy-farm|archive-date=21 October 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> Despite technical problems that almost caused Yorke to abandon the stage, the performance was acclaimed and cemented Radiohead as a major live act.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/news/radioheads-glastonbury-1997-set-like-form-according-guitarist/ |title=Radiohead's Glastonbury 1997 set was 'like a form of hell', according to guitarist Ed O'Brien |last=White |first=Adam |date=23 June 2017 |work=The Telegraph|access-date=24 June 2017 |language=en-GB|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170623230959/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/news/radioheads-glastonbury-1997-set-like-form-according-guitarist/|archive-date=23 June 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Grant Gee]], the director of the "No Surprises" video, filmed the band on tour for the 1999 documentary ''[[Meeting People Is Easy]]''.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/177943/Meeting-People-is-Easy/overview |title=Meeting People is Easy (1999)|access-date=20 November 2007 |last=Deming |first=Mark|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080116202225/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/177943/Meeting-People-is-Easy/overview|archive-date=16 January 2008 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=2008|url-status=dead}}</ref> The film portrays the band's disaffection with the music industry and press, showing their [[Occupational burnout|burnout]] over the course of the tour.<ref name="guitar-world" /> Since its release, ''OK Computer'' is often acclaimed as a landmark record of the 1990s<ref>Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "[https://www.allmusic.com/album/ok-computer-mw0000024289 OK Computer] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181121081725/https://www.allmusic.com/album/ok-computer-mw0000024289|date=21 November 2018}}" AllMusic. Retrieved 31 January 2012</ref> and the [[Generation X]] era, and one of the greatest albums in recording history.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Rose |first=Phil |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8UCIDwAAQBAJ&q=radiohead+generation+x+ok+computer&pg=PR20 |title=Radiohead: Music for a Global Future |date=22 April 2019 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1-4422-7930-8 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Q Magazine: The 100 Greatest British Albums of All Time – How many do you own? (Either on CD, Vinyl, Tape or Download) |url=https://www.listchallenges.com/q-magazine-the-100-greatest-british-albums-of-all|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200219052103/https://www.listchallenges.com/q-magazine-the-100-greatest-british-albums-of-all|archive-date=19 February 2020|access-date=19 February 2020 |work=List Challenges}}</ref>

However, ''Hail to the Thief'' did not have as large a commercial profile, debuting at number 3 on the US Billboard chart, though it was Radiohead's fourth consecutive UK number 1 album. The lead single "[[There There]]" peaked at number 4 in the British charts, with subsequent singles "[[Go to Sleep]]" and "[[2 + 2 = 5 (song)|2+2=5]]" charting at #12 and #15 respectively. But "There There" was a #1 hit in Canada, and returned the band to U.S. [[modern rock]] radio favour, after several years without a song on playlists.

In 1998, Radiohead performed at a Paris [[Amnesty International]] concert<ref>{{cite web |title=Art for Amnesty |url=http://www.artforamnesty.org/view_artist.php?id=32 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071030120709/http://www.artforamnesty.org/view_artist.php?id=32 |archive-date=30 October 2007 |access-date=22 December 2007}}</ref> and the [[Tibetan Freedom Concert]].<ref>{{Cite magazine |last1=Greene |first1=Andy |date=17 March 2015 |title=Flashback: Michael Stipe Fronts Radiohead at Tibet Concert |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/flashback-michael-stipe-fronts-radiohead-at-tibetan-freedom-concert-192978/ |url-status=live |magazine=Rolling Stone |language=en-US |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190603100749/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/flashback-michael-stipe-fronts-radiohead-at-tibetan-freedom-concert-192978/ |archive-date=3 June 2019 |access-date=3 June 2019}}</ref> In March, they and Godrich entered [[Abbey Road Studios]] to record a song for the 1998 film ''[[The Avengers (1998 film)|The Avengers]]'', "[[Man of War (song)|Man of War]]", but were unsatisfied with the results and it went unreleased.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Mejia |first=Paula |title=The Secret History of Radiohead's OK Computer |language=en |work=Vulture |url=https://www.vulture.com/2017/06/the-secret-history-of-radioheads-ok-computer.html |url-status=live |access-date=14 February 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180214073547/http://www.vulture.com/2017/06/the-secret-history-of-radioheads-ok-computer.html |archive-date=14 February 2018}}</ref> Yorke described the period as a "real low point";<ref>{{Cite web |title=Radiohead's 'Man of War': Everything You Need to Know About the 'OK Computer' Bonus Tracks |url=http://diffuser.fm/radiohead-man-of-war/ |access-date=29 July 2017 |website=Diffuser.fm |date=3 May 2017 |language=en-US}}</ref> he and O'Brien developed depression,<ref>{{cite web |last=McLean |first=Craig |date=6 February 2020 |title=Radiohead guitarist Ed O'Brien steps up |url=https://theface.com/music/radiohead-guitarist-ed-obrien-album-shangri-la-interview-thom-yorke |access-date=8 February 2020 |website=[[The Face (magazine)|The Face]] |language=en-gb}}</ref> and the band came close to splitting up.<ref name="ECCLES">{{cite journal |last1=Cavanagh |first1=David |last2=Eccleston |first2=Danny |date=1 October 2000 |title=I Can See The Monsters |journal=[[Q (magazine)|Q]] |issue=169}}</ref>

After the release of ''[[Hail to the Thief]]'', Radiohead embarked on an extensive international tour, which lasted about a year but was punctuated by long breaks; by this time, most members of Radiohead had families and children at home. To many the band appeared more relaxed than on earlier tours, laughing at meetings with the press, and dancing on stage. In June 2003 Radiohead again headlined the main (Pyramid) stage on the Saturday of the [[Glastonbury Festival#Glastonbury 2003|Glastonbury Festival]]. In late 2003 Radiohead contributed original music to ''Split Sides'', a project of [[Merce Cunningham]]'s dance company which also involved their former touring partners Sigur Rós. The band finished the ''Hail to the Thief'' tour in mid-2004 with a performance at the [[Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival#2004|Coachella Festival]].

=== 1998–2001: ''Kid A'', ''Amnesiac'' and change in sound ===

After the tour, the band began writing and rehearsing for a possible follow up album in their Oxford based studio, then went on hiatus as Ed had just had a son Salvador born in January 2004 and Colin was awaiting the birth of his firstborn Jesse. Free of any contractual obligations, the members of Radiohead spent the remainder of 2004 resting and devoting themselves to solo projects, only recording as a group sporadically. They released the DVD version of their webcast television show, ''[[The Most Gigantic Lying Mouth Of All Time]]'', in December 2004. Jonny and Thom collaborated with many other artists for the [[Band Aid 20]] project, playing guitar and piano, respectively.

[[File:Jonny Greenwood Synth (Amsterdam).jpg|thumb|Jonny Greenwood has used a variety of instruments, such as this [[glockenspiel]], in live concerts and recordings.]]

[[File:Radiohead's Kid A Matters.ogg|thumb|right|[[Phil Selway]] discussing ''[[Kid A]]'' in 2000]]

After the success of ''OK Computer'', Radiohead bought a barn in Oxfordshire and converted it into a recording studio.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Rogers |first=Jude |author-link=Jude Rogers |date=29 September 2024 |title='It commemorates collective moments': Radiohead through the eyes of Colin Greenwood |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/sep/29/radiohead-colin-greenwood-photography-how-to-disappear#comments |access-date=29 September 2024 |work=[[The Observer]] |language=en-GB |issn=0029-7712}}</ref> They began work on their next album with Godrich in early 1999, working in studios in Paris, Copenhagen, and [[Gloucester]] before their new studio was completed.<ref name="SMITH" /> Although their success meant there was no longer pressure from their record label,<ref name="ROSS" /> tensions were high. The members had different visions for Radiohead's future, and Yorke suffered from [[writer's block]], influencing him toward more abstract, fragmented songwriting.<ref name="ECCLES" /> O'Brien kept an online diary of their progress.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.mtv.com/news/517864/radiohead-guitarists-online-diary-gives-glimpse-of-new-lp/ |title=Radiohead Guitarist's Online Diary Gives Glimpse Of New LP |website=MTV News|access-date=26 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190726215727/http://www.mtv.com/news/517864/radiohead-guitarists-online-diary-gives-glimpse-of-new-lp/|archive-date=26 July 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref> After nearly 18 months, recording was completed in April 2000.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Nelson |first=Chris |date=20 April 2000 |title=Radiohead complete recording for ''OK Computer'' follow-up |url=https://www.mtv.com/news/821233/radiohead-complete-recording-for-ok-computer-follow-up/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211004102055/https://www.mtv.com/news/821233/radiohead-complete-recording-for-ok-computer-follow-up/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=4 October 2021 |access-date=4 October 2021 |website=[[MTV News]] |language=en}}</ref>

Radiohead's fourth album, ''[[Kid A]]'', was released in October 2000. A departure from ''OK Computer'', ''Kid A'' featured a [[minimalism|minimalist]] and textured style with more diverse instrumentation, including the [[ondes Martenot]], programmed [[electronic music|electronic]] beats, [[string orchestra|strings]], and jazz horns.<ref name="ECCLES" /> It debuted at number one in many countries, including the US, where it became the first Radiohead album to debut atop the ''[[Billboard 200|Billboard]]'' chart and the first US number-one album by any UK act since the [[Spice Girls]] in 1996.<ref name="BBCKIDAAMN">{{cite news |date=14 June 2001 |title=US Success for Radiohead |work=[[BBC News]] |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1389135.stm |url-status=live |access-date=22 March 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070313150734/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1389135.stm |archive-date=13 March 2007}}</ref> This success was attributed variously to marketing, to the album's leak on the file-sharing network [[Napster]] a few months before its release, and to advance anticipation based, in part, on the success of ''OK Computer''.<ref>{{cite news |title=CD Soars After Net Release: Radiohead's 'Kid A' premieres in No.&nbsp;1 slot |last=Evangelista |first=Benny|access-date=17 March 2007 |date=12 October 2000 |newspaper=[[San Francisco Chronicle]] |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/10/12/BU108599.DTL&type=tech_article|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718100907/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/10/12/BU108599.DTL&type=tech_article|archive-date=18 July 2011|url-status=live}}<br />{{cite news |last=Menta |first=Richard |title=Did Napster Take Radiohead's New Album to Number 1? |newspaper=[[MP3 Newswire]] |date=28 October 2000}}<br />{{cite news |last=Oldham |first=James |title=Radiohead&nbsp;— Their Stupendous Return |newspaper=NME |date=24 June 2000}}</ref> Although Radiohead released no singles from ''Kid A'', [[Promotional recording|promos]] of "[[Optimistic (Radiohead song)|Optimistic]]" and "[[Idioteque]]" received radio play, and a series of "blips", short videos set to portions of tracks, were played on music channels and released free online.<ref name="ZORIC">{{cite news |last=Zoric |first=Lauren |date=22 September 2000 |title=I think I'm meant to be dead |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/friday_review/story/0,,371289,00.html |access-date=3 April 2023}}</ref> Radiohead continued a 2000 tour of Europe in a custom-built tent free of advertising; they also promoted ''Kid A'' with three sold-out North American theatre concerts.<ref name="ZORIC" />

===(2005-present) Current work ===

Radiohead began work again in early [[2005 in music|2005]]. As a result of the band's work, Thom and Jonny debuted a new song, "Arpeggi," in March 2005, playing it at London's Ether Festival; Greenwood also debuted two of his own classical pieces, one written for the [[Ondes Martenot]]. Later that summer, Thom performed an acoustic set for the [[Trade Justice Rally]], playing never-recorded fan favourite "Nude" (aka "[[Meeting People Is Easy#Unreleased songs in the film|Big Ideas]]"), debuting the new song "House of Cards," reviving the unreleased "Reckoner," and introducing "Last Flowers [to the Hospital]," a remnant of the ''OK Computer'' period. Radiohead did not perform live in 2005, but would perform some of these songs later by the full band.

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In early September 2005 the band recorded a new song, "I Want None of This", for the [[War Child (charity)|War Child]] charity album ''[[Help: A Day in the Life]]'' - a sequel to the [[The Help Album|1995 compilation]] to which the band had contributed "Lucky." The album was sold largely on the Internet, and Radiohead's contribution became the most downloaded track, though in contrast with "Lucky" it was not released as a single.

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''Kid A'' received a [[Grammy Award]] for [[Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album|Best Alternative Album]] and a nomination for [[Grammy Award for Album of the Year|Album of the Year]] in early 2001. It won both praise and criticism in [[independent music]] circles for appropriating [[underground music|underground]] styles of music; some British critics saw ''Kid A'' as a "commercial suicide note" and "intentionally difficult", and longed for a return to Radiohead's earlier style.<ref name="KENT" /><ref name="FREQUENCY" /> Fans were similarly divided; along with those who were appalled or mystified, many saw it as the band's best work.<ref name="REYNOLDS" /><ref>{{cite journal |url=https://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/radiohead/kida |title=Kid A by Radiohead|access-date=20 May 2007 |journal=[[Metacritic]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070609160948/http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/radiohead/kida|archive-date=9 June 2007|url-status=live}}</ref> Yorke denied that Radiohead had set out to eschew expectations, saying: "We're not trying to be difficult&nbsp;... We're actually trying to communicate but somewhere along the line, we just seemed to piss off a lot of people&nbsp;... What we're doing isn't that radical."<ref name="KENT" /> The album was ranked one of the best of all time by publications including [[Time (magazine)|''Time'']] and ''Rolling Stone;''<ref>{{cite magazine |date=13 November 2006 |title=The all-time 100 albums |url=http://www.time.com/time/2006/100albums/index.html |url-status=dead |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110424141858/http://www.time.com/time/2006/100albums/index.html |archive-date=24 April 2011 |access-date=3 March 2009}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |date=22 September 2020 |title=The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-of-all-time-1062063/ |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |language=en-US |access-date=23 September 2020}}</ref> ''Rolling Stone'', ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]'' and the ''[[The Times|Times]]'' named it the best album of the decade.<ref>{{cite magazine |date=18 July 2011 |title=100 Best Albums of the 2000s |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/100-best-albums-of-the-2000s-153375/radiohead-kid-a-3-158987/ |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |access-date=13 May 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2 October 2009 |title=The top 200 albums of the 2000s: 20–1 – page 2 |url=https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/7710-the-top-200-albums-of-the-2000s-20-1/?page=2 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314045640/http://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/7710-the-top-200-albums-of-the-2000s-20-1/?page=2 |archive-date=14 March 2016 |access-date=2 September 2016 |website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/the-100-best-pop-albums-of-the-noughties-s7bmg6sr90g |title=The 100 best pop albums of the Noughties |date=21 November 2009 |newspaper=[[The Times]]|access-date=15 January 2025}}</ref>

Radiohead returned to regular recording sessions by late summer 2005, posting intermittently in their [[Dead Air Space]] blog on their progress. Recording continued into early [[2006 in music|2006]]. On the initial sessions, the band chose to work with [[Mark "Spike" Stent]] instead of their longtime co-producer [[Nigel Godrich]]. As revealed by Ed O'Brien in December 2005, the switch was made amiably because the band felt too comfortable with Godrich and wanted to challenge themselves. However, it seems that Godrich closely followed their recording sessions and will work with the band in the future. O'Brien told Green Plastic, a fan site, that the band plans on doing some recording sessions with Godrich after their summer tour is over, although the band has also professed satisfaction with some work from the earlier sessions.

Radiohead's fifth album, ''[[Amnesiac (album)|Amnesiac]]'', was released in May 2001. It comprised additional tracks from the ''Kid A'' sessions, including "Life in a Glasshouse", featuring the [[The Humphrey Lyttelton Band|Humphrey Lyttelton Band]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/clue/interviews/humph_transcript2.shtml |title=The chairman – Humphrey Lyttelton |date=31 January 2001 |publisher=BBC|access-date=1 April 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090414233610/http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/clue/interviews/humph_transcript2.shtml|archive-date=14 April 2009|url-status=live}}</ref> Radiohead stressed that they saw ''Amnesiac'' not as a collection of B-sides or outtakes from ''Kid A'' but an album in its own right.<ref>{{cite interview |last1=Greenwood |first1=Colin|subject-link1=Colin Greenwood |last2=O'Brien |first2=Ed|subject-link2=Ed O'Brien |interviewer=Chris Douridas |title=Interview with Ed & Colin |work=Ground Zero |publisher=[[KCRW]] |date=25 January 2001}}</ref> It topped the [[UK Albums Chart]] and reached number two in the US, and was nominated for a Grammy Award and the [[Mercury Music Prize]].<ref name="FREQUENCY" /><ref name="BBCKIDAAMN" /> Radiohead released "[[Pyramid Song]]" and "[[Knives Out (song)|Knives Out]]" as singles, their first since 1998.<ref>{{cite web |author=Kessler, Ted |date=12 September 2005 |title=Radiohead: Pyramid Song: This is our favourite Radiohead single in recent memory&nbsp;... |url=https://www.nme.com/reviews/5064 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071017154745/http://www.nme.com/reviews/5064 |archive-date=17 October 2007 |access-date=22 April 2007 |website=[[NME]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Merryweather |first=David |date=24 July 2021 |title=Single Review: Radiohead – Knives Out |url=http://drownedinsound.com/releases/5182/reviews/1723- |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190508033751/http://drownedinsound.com/releases/5182/reviews/1723- |archive-date=8 May 2019 |access-date=10 August 2018 |work=[[Drowned in Sound]]}}</ref> Radiohead began a North American tour, their first there in three years, in June 2001.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Pakvis |first=Peter |date=21 June 2001 |title=Radiohead take ''Amnesiac'' on tour |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/radiohead-take-amnesiac-on-tour-20010621 |url-status=live |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140517021226/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/radiohead-take-amnesiac-on-tour-20010621 |archive-date=17 May 2014 |access-date=27 July 2014}}</ref> With a string of sold-out dates, ''[[The Observer]]'' described it as "the most sweeping conquest of America by a British group" since [[Beatlemania]], succeeding where bands such as [[Oasis (band)|Oasis]] had failed.<ref>{{Cite news |date=19 August 2001 |title=How Radiohead took America by stealth |language=en-GB |work=[[The Observer]] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/aug/19/uk.theobserver |access-date=16 July 2023 |issn=0029-7712}}</ref> Recordings from the ''Kid A'' and ''Amnesiac'' tours were released on ''[[I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings]]'' in November 2001.<ref>{{cite web |last=LeMay |first=Matt |date=17 December 2001 |title=Radiohead: ''I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings EP'' |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/6657-i-might-be-wrong-live-recordings-ep/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160610001809/http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/6657-i-might-be-wrong-live-recordings-ep/|archive-date=10 June 2016|access-date=11 June 2016 |website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]}}</ref>

Radiohead likely will release their seventh album sometime in 2007<ref>Pitchfork Media. Music news, May 12, 2006.[http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/news/06-05/12.shtml]</ref>, but as the band is not even finished recording, the album's release date and title are unconfirmed. It's unknown what record label the band will sign with, or whether they will re-sign at all, as it seems that they are enjoying their current creative freedom. In an interview in April 2006 for NME, Thom revealed that they do plan to sign a record deal eventually, but on their own terms, and not until the album is finished. This was confirmed in a June interview with [[The Observer]]: "'Will we re-sign to EMI?' he mused. 'I don't know. I don't think we'd ''sign'' sign to anybody. Give someone a record when it's done if we feel that they can do it justice. That's it.'"<ref name="observer">McLean, Craig. "All Messed Up." ''The Observer'', June 18, 2006.[http://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm/story/0,,1795948,00.html]</ref> The format of a new release also may be up in the air, with Yorke expressing an interest in a series of [[Extended play|EPs]] or [[single (music)|singles]], though ruling out Internet-only distribution.

=== 2002–2006: ''Hail to the Thief'' and solo work ===

From May to June 2006, Radiohead toured England and major cities in Europe and North America, returning to Europe for several concerts in late August. The tour drew sold out crowds to generally smaller venues, clubs and theatres - including a London acoustic performance by Thom and Jonny to benefit [[Friends of the Earth]]'s "The Big Ask", which was attended by representatives of British political parties. 2006 also marked the first time the band had played the [[Bonnaroo]] and [[V Festival|V]] music festivals; they played a massive 28-song set at Bonnaroo, and headlined both lineups of V. Thom recently mentioned the band have plans for a new DVD with their performance at Bonnaroo for the next year.

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In July and August 2002, Radiohead toured Portugal and Spain, playing a number of new songs. For their next album, they sought to explore the tension between human and machine-generated music<ref>{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/bitter-prophet-thom-yorke-on-hail-to-the-thief-20030626 |title=Bitter Prophet: Thom Yorke on 'Hail to the Thief' |last=Fricke |first=David |date=27 June 2003 |magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=15 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170318111404/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/bitter-prophet-thom-yorke-on-hail-to-the-thief-20030626|archive-date=18 March 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> and capture a more immediate, live sound.<ref>{{cite interview |title=Radiohead Hail to the Thief – Interview CD |year=2003}} Promotional interview CD sent to British music press.</ref><ref>{{cite journal |date=5 October 2002 |title=Exclusive: Thom on new Radiohead album |journal=NME}}</ref> They and Godrich recorded most of the material in two weeks at [[Ocean Way Recording]] in Los Angeles. The band described the recording process as relaxed, in contrast to the tense sessions for ''Kid A'' and ''Amnesiac''.<ref name="MCLEAN" /> Radiohead also composed music for "Split Sides", a dance piece by the [[Merce Cunningham Dance Company]], which debuted in October 2003 at the [[Brooklyn Academy of Music]].<ref>{{Cite magazine |date= |title=Radiohead Dances With Sigur Ros |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/71349/radiohead-dances-with-sigur-ros |url-status=live |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181015020048/https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/71349/radiohead-dances-with-sigur-ros |archive-date=15 October 2018 |access-date=14 October 2018}}</ref>

In addition to playing old songs and re-arranged versions of "Arpeggi", "[[Nude (song)|Nude]]" and "House of Cards," Radiohead premiered 10 new songs on their 2006 tour: "[[Bangers 'n' Mash]]", "Open Pick", "[[15 Step]]", "4 Minute Warning", "[[Spooks (song)|Spooks]]", "Bodysnatchers", "Go Slowly", "[[Videotape (song)|Videotape]]", "Down Is The New Up" and "All I Need". According to interviews, these represent only a portion of the newly written material. Radiohead will spend the rest of the year recording their new material in preparation for a new release in 2007.

Radiohead's sixth album, ''[[Hail to the Thief]]'', was released in June 2003.<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/radiohead/hailtothethief?q=hail%20to%20the%20thief |title=Radiohead: Hail to the Thief (2003): Reviews|access-date=17 March 2007 |journal=[[Metacritic]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926234534/http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/radiohead/hailtothethief?q=hail%20to%20the%20thief|archive-date=26 September 2007|url-status=live}}</ref> Its lyrics were influenced by what Yorke called "the general sense of ignorance and intolerance and panic and stupidity" following the election of US President [[George W. Bush]] and the [[war on terror]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.xfm.co.uk/article.asp?id=3561 |title=Recording 'Hail to the Thief' in Los Angeles |newspaper=Radio X |publisher=[[Xfm London]]|access-date=22 February 2012}}</ref> ''Hail to the Thief'' debuted at number one in the UK and number three on the ''Billboard'' chart, and was certified [[British Phonographic Industry#Certifications|platinum]] in the UK and [[RIAA certification|gold]] in the US. The singles "[[There There (song)|There There]]", "[[Go to Sleep]]" and "[[2 + 2 = 5 (song)|2 + 2 = 5]]" achieved heavy circulation on [[modern rock]] radio. At the [[2004 Grammy Awards]], Radiohead were again nominated for [[Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album|Best Alternative Album]], and Godrich and the engineer Darrell Thorp received the [[Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical|Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album]].<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://www.rockonthenet.com/archive/2004/grammys.htm |title=46th Annual Grammy Awards |access-date=14 September 2019 |date=8 February 2004 |journal=Rock on the Net |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130218081526/http://www.rockonthenet.com/archive/2004/grammys.htm |archive-date=18 February 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref> In May, Radiohead launched radiohead.tv, where they streamed short films, music videos and live webcasts from their studio.<ref name="radioheadtv">{{cite web |date=10 June 2003 |title=Radiohead TV goes on air |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/2977526.stm |access-date=6 November 2012 |work=[[BBC]]}}</ref> The material was released on the 2004 DVD ''[[The Most Gigantic Lying Mouth of All Time]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Modell |first=Josh |date=27 December 2004 |title=Radiohead: ''The Most Gigantic Lying Mouth Of All Time'' |url=https://www.avclub.com/radiohead-the-most-gigantic-lying-mouth-of-all-time-1798200283 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190420080129/https://music.avclub.com/radiohead-the-most-gigantic-lying-mouth-of-all-time-1798200283 |archive-date=20 April 2019 |access-date=20 April 2019 |website=[[AV Club]] |language=en-US}}</ref> A compilation of ''Hail to the Thief'' B-sides, remixes and live performances, ''[[Com Lag (2plus2isfive)]]'', was released in April 2004.<ref>{{Citation |title=Radiohead – Com Lag (2Plus2IsFive) |work=[[Allmusic]] |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/com-lag-2plus2isfive-mw0000582738 |access-date=3 April 2023 |language=en}}</ref> In May 2003, Radiohead embarked on a world tour and headlined Glastonbury Festival for the second time. The tour finished in May 2004 with a performance at the [[Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival#2004|Coachella Festival]] in California.<ref name="Sweet Malaise">{{Cite news |last=Pareles |first=Jon |date=2 July 2006 |title=With Radiohead, and Alone, the Sweet Malaise of Thom Yorke |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/02/arts/music/02pare.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151017210558/http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/02/arts/music/02pare.html |archive-date=17 October 2015 |access-date=16 October 2015 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

==Artistic background==

:See also [[Radiohead overview and influence]]

[[File:Radiohead Coachella 2004 cropped.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|Radiohead at the 2004 [[Coachella Music Festival]]]]

The band are:

''Hail to the Thief'' was Radiohead's final album with EMI; in 2006, ''The New York Times'' described Radiohead as "by far the world's most popular unsigned band".<ref name="Sweet Malaise" /> Following the ''Hail to the Thief'' tour, Radiohead went on hiatus to spend time with their families and work on solo projects. Yorke and Jonny Greenwood contributed to the [[Band Aid 20]] charity single "[[Do They Know It's Christmas?]]", produced by Godrich.<ref>{{cite web |last=Godrich |first=Nigel |date=29 November 2009 |title=Flashback: making Band Aid 20 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/nov/01/last-waltz-dylan-the-band |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201035729/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/nov/01/last-waltz-dylan-the-band |archive-date=1 December 2017 |access-date=2 May 2015 |website=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref> Greenwood composed soundtracks for the films ''[[Bodysong (album)|Bodysong]]'' (2004) and ''[[There Will Be Blood (album)|There Will Be Blood]]'' (2007); the latter was the first of several collaborations with the director [[Paul Thomas Anderson]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Everett-Green |first=Robert |date=14 June 2006 |title=Radiohead retooled |website=[[The Globe and Mail]] |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/radiohead-retooled/article711010/ |url-status=live |access-date=3 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150103235729/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/radiohead-retooled/article711010/ |archive-date=3 January 2015}}</ref><ref name="HERE">{{cite web |url=https://www.radiohead.com/deadairspace/index.php?a=65 |title=Here we go |last=O'Brien |first=Ed |date=21 August 2005 |work=Dead Air Space |publisher=Radiohead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051031112530/http://www.radiohead.com/deadairspace/index.php?a=65|archive-date=31 October 2005|url-status=dead|access-date=23 December 2007}}</ref> In July 2006, Yorke released his debut solo album, ''[[The Eraser]]'', comprising mainly electronic music.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-28-et-yorke28-story.html |title=Thom Yorke, free agent |last=Powers |first=Ann |date=28 June 2006 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times|access-date=3 May 2015 |language=en |issn=0458-3035|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150518091319/http://articles.latimes.com/2006/jun/28/entertainment/et-yorke28|archive-date=18 May 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> He stressed it was made with the band's blessing, and that Radiohead were not breaking up. Jonny Greenwood said: "He had to get this stuff out, and everyone was happy [for Yorke to make it] ... He'd go mad if every time he wrote a song it had to go through the Radiohead consensus."<ref>{{cite news |last=Paytress |first=Mark |date=February 2008 |title=CHASING RAIN_BOWS |pages=75–85 |work=[[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]]}}</ref> Selway and Jonny Greenwood appeared in the 2005 film ''[[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)|Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire]]'' as members of the fictional band [[List of supporting Harry Potter characters|the Weird Sisters]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Young |first=Alex |date=18 November 2010 |title=Break Yo' TV: Harry Potter's The Weird Sisters – 'Do The Hippogriff' |url=https://consequence.net/2010/11/break-yo-tv-harry-potters-the-weird-sisters-do-the-hippogriff/ |access-date=29 May 2023 |website=[[Consequence (publication)|Consequence]] |language=en-US}}</ref>

* [[Thom Yorke]] (lead vocals, rhythm guitar, piano, electronic programming)

* [[Jonny Greenwood]] (lead guitar, keyboard, ondes martenot, electronic programming, string arrangements, various)

* [[Ed O'Brien]] (guitar, harmony vocals, special effects, percussion)

* [[Colin Greenwood]] (bass, keyboards)

* [[Phil Selway]] (drums and percussion)

=== 2006–2009: departure from EMI, ''In Rainbows'', and "pay what you want" ===

Radiohead's style, notable for its variety and versatility, can be largely explained by the eclectic musical tastes and accomplishments of its members. Lead guitarist Jonny Greenwood is currently the [[BBC]]'s Composer in Residence, a multi-instrumentalist, and the only classically trained member of the band, playing (aside from the guitar) such instruments as the [[Ondes Martenot]], banjo, viola and harmonica. Lead singer Thom Yorke, as well as writing most [[lyrics]], plays several different instruments, and has also focused on the digital manipulation of sound in recent years. He and Jonny are credited with playing "laptop" on the band's most recent album.

Radiohead began work on their seventh album in February 2005.<ref name="HERE" /> Instead of involving Godrich, Radiohead hired the producer [[Spike Stent]], but the collaboration was unsuccessful.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last1=Vozick-Levinson |first1=Simon |date=27 April 2012 |title=The Making of Radiohead's ''In Rainbows'' |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/the-making-of-radioheads-in-rainbows-187534/ |url-status=live |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |language=en-US |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190730031338/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/the-making-of-radioheads-in-rainbows-187534/ |archive-date=30 July 2019 |access-date=30 July 2019}}</ref> In September 2005, Radiohead contributed "I Want None of This", a piano [[dirge]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/2097-help-a-day-in-the-life/ |title=Various Artists: Help: A Day in the Life Album Review {{!}} Pitchfork|last=Plagenhoef|first=Scott|date=11 September 2005|website=Pitchfork|language=en|access-date=13 May 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180109180938/https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/2097-help-a-day-in-the-life/|archive-date=9 January 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> for the [[War Child (charity)|War Child]] charity album ''[[Help!: A Day in the Life|Help: A Day in the Life]]''. The album was sold online, with "I Want None of This" the most downloaded track, though it was not released as a single.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/4238542.stm |title=Rush to download War Child album |date=12 September 2005|access-date=19 October 2007 |newspaper=BBC News}}</ref> In late 2006, after touring Europe and North America with new material, Radiohead re-enlisted Godrich and resumed work in London, Oxford and rural [[Somerset]], England.<ref>{{cite news |title=Radiohead: Exclusive Interview |last=Marshall |first=Julian |date=2 October 2007 |newspaper=NME}}</ref> Recording ended in June 2007 and the recordings were mastered the following month.<ref>{{cite news |date=16 July 2007 |title=Radiohead mastering seventh album in New York |newspaper=[[NME]] |url=https://www.nme.com//news/radiohead/29715 |url-status=live |access-date=19 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160414123718/http://www.nme.com/news/radiohead/29715 |archive-date=14 April 2016}}</ref>

Though Yorke and Greenwood are often seen as the main creative influences within the band, [[songwriting]] is chiefly a collaborative effort, and all members are cited equally by the band in their album credits. For example, Ed O'Brien, though usually employed as a guitarist and backing vocalist, is responsible for creating many of the noises and effects heard in songs (such as the end of "Karma Police"), and is also a skilled drummer; and bassist Colin Greenwood and drummer Phil Selway are known to have played an influential role in shaping several of Radiohead's recent pieces. Since the ''Kid A'' and ''Amnesiac'' recording sessions, band members have felt less constrained to always play "their" instrument, often switching off depending on what the song requires, although in live shows the roles are usually more consistent.

In 2007, EMI was acquired by the [[private equity]] firm [[Terra Firma Capital Partners|Terra Firma]]. Radiohead were critical of the new management, and no new deal was agreed.<ref name="observer12">{{cite news |author=McLean, Craig |date=9 December 2007 |title=Caught in the flash |work=[[The Observer]] |___location=London |url=http://music.guardian.co.uk/omm/story/0,,2222276,00.html|url-status=live|access-date=1 January 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080220030505/http://music.guardian.co.uk/omm/story/0,,2222276,00.html|archive-date=20 February 2008}}</ref> The [[The Independent|''Independent'']] reported that EMI had offered Radiohead a £3 million advance, but had refused to relinquish rights to the band's back catalogue. An EMI spokesman stated that Radiohead had demanded "an extraordinary amount of money".<ref name="Rajan-2007">{{Cite news |last=Rajan |first=Amol |date=29 December 2007 |title=EMI split blamed on Radiohead's £10m advance demands |language=en-GB |work=[[The Independent]] |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/emi-split-blamed-on-radioheads-pound10m-advance-demands-767248.html |url-status=live |access-date=16 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180616141638/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/emi-split-blamed-on-radioheads-pound10m-advance-demands-767248.html |archive-date=16 June 2018}}</ref> Radiohead's management and Yorke released statements denying that they had asked for a large advance, but had instead wanted control over their back catalogue.<ref name="Rajan-2007" /><ref>{{Cite magazine |title='Nude' Radiohead Video Hits Web, EMI Airs Dirty Laundry |magazine=Rolling Stone |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/nude-radiohead-video-hits-web-thom-yorke-responds-to-emis-airing-of-dirty-laundry-20080102|url-status=live|access-date=16 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180616130306/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/nude-radiohead-video-hits-web-thom-yorke-responds-to-emis-airing-of-dirty-laundry-20080102|archive-date=16 June 2018}}</ref>

This spirit of creative collaboration is also shown in the band's close relationship with their [[record producer|producers]], in particular [[Nigel Godrich]], who worked with the band as coproducer on ''OK Computer'' and the following three albums after serving as an engineer on the recording of ''The Bends''. Godrich has often been dubbed the "sixth member" of Radiohead in an allusion to [[George Martin]]'s work with the Beatles, but this association has been at least temporarily broken following the band's decision to work with [[Mark "Spike" Stent]] during current recording sessions.

Radiohead self-released their seventh album, ''[[In Rainbows]]'', on their website on 10 October 2007 as a [[Music download|download]], for any amount users wanted, including £0. The landmark [[pay-what-you-want]] release, the first for a major act, made headlines worldwide and created debate about the implications for the music industry.<ref name="nytimespay">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/arts/music/09pare.html?ex=1354856400&en=ec2f1c29937292be&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all |title=Pay What You Want for This Article|access-date=30 December 2007 |author=Pareles, Jon|author-link=Jon Pareles |date=9 December 2007 |work=The New York Times|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071212152701/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/arts/music/09pare.html?ei=5090&en=ec2f1c29937292be&ex=1354856400&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all|archive-date=12 December 2007|url-status=live}}</ref> Media reaction was positive, and Radiohead were praised for finding new ways to connect with fans.<ref>{{cite news |author=Paytress, Mark |title=Chasing Rainbows |date=1 January 2008 |work=Mojo}}</ref><ref name="Tyrangiel, Josh">{{cite magazine |url=http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1666973,00.html |title=Radiohead Says: Pay What You Want |author=Tyrangiel, Josh |date=1 October 2007 |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|access-date=16 October 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110827171043/http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1666973,00.html|archive-date=27 August 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> However, it drew criticism from musicians such as [[Lily Allen]] and [[Kim Gordon]], who felt it undercut less successful acts.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Kreps |first=Daniel |date=14 November 2007 |title=Lily Allen, Oasis, Gene Simmons Criticize Radiohead's 'Rainbows' |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/lily-allen-oasis-gene-simmons-backlash-against-radioheads-rainbows-20071114 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140425211901/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/lily-allen-oasis-gene-simmons-backlash-against-radioheads-rainbows-20071114 |archive-date=25 April 2014 |access-date=14 March 2014 |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Thill |first=Scott |date=8 July 2009 |title=Sonic Youth Slams Radiohead's In Rainbows Model |url=https://www.wired.com/2009/06/sonic-youth-slams-radioheads-in-rainbows-model/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171005152018/https://www.wired.com/2009/06/sonic-youth-slams-radioheads-in-rainbows-model/ |archive-date=5 October 2017 |access-date=4 June 2017 |magazine=[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]}}</ref>

[[Graphic art|Graphic artist]] [[Stanley Donwood]] is another long-term associate of the group, having produced together with Yorke (who is often listed under the [[pseudonym]] "Tchock","Tchocky", "Dr. Tchock", or "The White Chocolate Farm") all of Radiohead's visual artwork (except music videos) since their ''[[My Iron Lung]]'' [[EP (format)|EP]]. For Radiohead, Donwood has produced art ranging from oil paintings to computer generated imagery to collages and antique style posters, and prefers to work in the same place the band is recording so as to find a visual equivalent for their sound. Donwood thus projects significant influence over the public image of the band, and the issues addressed in his artwork have been seen to act as a catalyst to themes within Yorke's lyrics. Together with Yorke, he won a [[Grammy Award for Best Album Package|Grammy]] in 2002 for a special edition of ''Amnesiac'' packaged as a library book.

''In Rainbows'' was downloaded an estimated 1.2&nbsp;million times on the day of release.<ref name="tour">{{cite magazine |last=Brandle |first=Lars |title=Radiohead Returning to the Road in 2008 |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard.com]] |date=18 October 2007 |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/1047969/radiohead-returning-to-the-road-in-2008|access-date=21 December 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080208234628/http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/1047969/radiohead-returning-to-the-road-in-2008|archive-date=8 February 2008}}</ref> Colin Greenwood explained the internet release as a way of avoiding the "regulated playlists" and "straitened formats" of radio and TV, ensuring fans around the world could experience the music at the same time, and preventing leaks in advance of a physical release.<ref>[[Colin Greenwood|Greenwood, Colin]] (13 September 2010), "[http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2010/09/radiohead-copyright-freespeech-music/ Set Yourself Free] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151105045102/https://www.indexoncensorship.org/2010/09/radiohead-copyright-freespeech-music/|date=5 November 2015}}", Index on Censorship. Retrieved 31 October 2010</ref> A special "discbox" edition of ''In Rainbows'', containing the record on vinyl, a book of artwork, and a CD of extra songs, was also sold from Radiohead's website.<ref name="INRAINBOWSYHOO">{{cite news |last=Grossberg |first=Josh |title=Fans Shortchanging Radiohead's Rainbows? |newspaper=[[E! Online]] |url=https://www.eonline.com/news/56660/fans-shortchanging-radiohead-s-rainbows |date=6 November 2007|access-date=23 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180629211729/https://www.eonline.com/news/56660/fans-shortchanging-radiohead-s-rainbows|archive-date=29 June 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Solo work==

The retail version of ''In Rainbows'' was released in the UK in late December 2007 on [[XL Recordings]] and in North America in January 2008 on [[TBD Records]],<ref name="INRAINBOWSYHOO" /> reaching number one in the UK and in the US.<ref>{{cite news |last=Griffiths |first=Peter |title=Radiohead top album chart |work=Reuters |url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUKL063195120080106 |date=6 January 2008|access-date=7 January 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090503032551/http://uk.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUKL063195120080106|archive-date=3 May 2009|url-status=dead}}<br />{{cite news |last=Cohen |first=Jonathan |title=Radiohead Nudges Blige From Atop Album Chart |newspaper=Billboard |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/1046867/radiohead-nudges-blige-from-atop-album-chart |date=9 January 2008|access-date=9 January 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080212015339/http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/1046867/radiohead-nudges-blige-from-atop-album-chart|archive-date=12 February 2008}}</ref> The success was Radiohead's highest chart placement in the US since ''Kid A''. It became their fifth UK number-one album and sold more than three million copies in one year.<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/radiohead/inrainbows |title=Radiohead: In Rainbows (2007): Reviews|access-date=6 November 2007 |journal=[[Metacritic]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071107114044/http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/radiohead/inrainbows|archive-date=7 November 2007|url-status=live}}</ref> The album received acclaim for its more accessible sound and personal lyrics.<ref>{{cite news |last=Kreps |first=Daniel |title=Radiohead Publishers Reveal "In Rainbows" Numbers |newspaper=[[Rolling Stone]] |date=15 October 2008 |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2008/10/15/radiohead-publishers-reveal-in-rainbows-numbers/|access-date=7 November 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081018150410/http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2008/10/15/radiohead-publishers-reveal-in-rainbows-numbers/|archive-date=18 October 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref> It was nominated for the [[Mercury Music Prize]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.idiomag.com/peek/35718/radiohead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090102090138/http://www.idiomag.com/peek/35718/radiohead |url-status=dead |archive-date=2 January 2009 |title=Radiohead News – 2008 Mercury Music Prize Nominees Announced|access-date=12 September 2008 |date=24 July 2008 |publisher=Idiomag.com}}</ref> and won the [[2009 Grammy Awards|2009 Grammy awards]] for [[Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album|Best Alternative Music Album]] and Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package. It was nominated for five other Grammy awards, including Radiohead's third nomination for [[Grammy Award for Album of the Year|Album of the Year]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Grammy Awards 2009: British artists dominate Los Angeles ceremony |first=Caroline |last=Hedley |date=9 February 2009|access-date=11 February 2009 |work=The Daily Telegraph |___location=UK |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/4566240/Grammy-Awards-2009-British-artists-dominate-Los-Angeles-ceremony.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090212102103/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/4566240/Grammy-Awards-2009-British-artists-dominate-Los-Angeles-ceremony.html|archive-date=12 February 2009|url-status=live}}</ref> Yorke and Jonny Greenwood performed "[[15 Step]]" with the [[Spirit of Troy|University of Southern California Marching Band]] at the televised award show.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Singh |first=Amrit |date=9 September 2009 |title=The 2009 Grammys: Just The Good Parts |work=[[Stereogum]] |url=https://www.stereogum.com/51301/the_2009_grammys_just_the_good_parts/video/ |url-status=live |access-date=19 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180927050317/https://www.stereogum.com/51301/the_2009_grammys_just_the_good_parts/video/ |archive-date=27 September 2018}}</ref>

:''Main articles: [[Jonny Greenwood]], [[Ed O'Brien]] and [[Thom Yorke]]''

[[File:Radiohead France 2008.jpg|thumb|Radiohead performing at the 2008 Main Square Festival in Arras, France]]

In the late 1990s, Ed O'Brien composed parts of the soundtrack for ''Eureka Street'', a British television show. The soundtrack was released on CD by the BBC. O'Brien also contributed guitar to several tracks on ''[[Enemy of the Enemy]]'', an album by [[Asian Dub Foundation]], also featuring [[Sinead O'Connor]].

The first single from ''In Rainbows'', "[[Jigsaw Falling into Place]]", was released in January 2008,<ref>{{cite news |title=Radiohead's 'In Rainbows' to be released on CD this year |date=8 November 2007 |newspaper=NME |url=https://www.nme.com//news/radiohead/32393|access-date=19 November 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071121025651/http://www.nme.com/news/radiohead/32393|archive-date=21 November 2007|url-status=live}}</ref> followed by "[[Nude (song)|Nude]]" in March,<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.nme.com//news/radiohead/35076 |title=Radiohead announce new single details |date=12 March 2008 |magazine=[[NME]]|access-date=12 March 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080314012342/http://www.nme.com/news/radiohead/35076|archive-date=14 March 2008|url-status=live}}</ref> which debuted at number 37 in the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]]; it was Radiohead's first song to enter the chart since "High and Dry" (1995) and their first US top 40 since "Creep".<ref name="BILL" /> In July, Radiohead released a digitally shot video for "[[House of Cards (Radiohead song)|House of Cards]]".<ref>{{cite news |last=Dodson |first=Sean |date=17 July 2008 |title=Is Radiohead the latest band to go open source? |work=The Guardian |___location=UK |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/jul/17/opensource.google|url-status=live|access-date=27 September 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150209210809/http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/jul/17/opensource.google|archive-date=9 February 2015}}</ref> Radiohead held [[remix]] competitions for "Nude" and "[[Reckoner]]", releasing the separated [[Stem (audio)|stems]] for fans to remix.<ref>{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.wired.com/2008/09/radiohead-launc-2/ |title=Radiohead Launches Easier, Less Expensive Remix Contest |magazine=WIRED|access-date=20 October 2018 |language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181020182052/https://www.wired.com/2008/09/radiohead-launc-2/|archive-date=20 October 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> In April 2008, Radiohead launched Waste Central, a [[social networking service]] for Radiohead fans.<ref>{{cite web |last=Hannaford |first=Katherine |date=7 April 2008 |title=Radiohead launches social networking site for gossip about Thom's hair, Waste-Central |url=http://www.techdigest.tv/2008/04/theyve_already.html |access-date=18 February 2015 |website=[[Tech Digest]] |publisher=}}</ref> In May, [[VH1]] broadcast ''[[In Rainbows – From the Basement]]'', a special episode of the music television show ''[[From the Basement]]'' in which Radiohead performed songs from ''In Rainbows''. It was released on [[iTunes]] in June.<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=2 July 2008 |title=Radiohead Rake in Praise From Bono, Release 'From the Basement' |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2008/06/24/radiohead-rake-in-praise-from-bono-release-from-the-basement/ |url-status=dead |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080702173304/http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2008/06/24/radiohead-rake-in-praise-from-bono-release-from-the-basement/ |archive-date=2 July 2008 |access-date=30 December 2016}}</ref> From mid-2008 to early 2009, Radiohead toured North America, Europe, Japan and South America to promote ''In Rainbows'', and headlined the [[Reading and Leeds Festivals]] in August 2009.<ref name="tour" /><ref>{{cite web |date=30 March 2009 |title=Reading and Leeds 2009 line-up |url=https://www.nme.com//news/readingleeds-festival/43738 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150209184737/http://www.nme.com/news/readingleeds-festival/43738 |archive-date=9 February 2015 |access-date=28 September 2014 |work=[[NME]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.lanacion.com.ar/nota.asp?nota_id=1069354 |title=Radiohead, por primera vez en Buenos Aires |date=13 November 2008 |newspaper=La Nación|access-date=14 January 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090309194147/http://www.lanacion.com.ar/nota.asp?nota_id=1069354|archive-date=9 March 2009|url-status=live}}</ref>

Days after Radiohead signed to XL, EMI announced a [[Radiohead Box Set|box set of Radiohead material]] recorded before ''In Rainbows'', released in the same week as the ''In Rainbows'' special edition. Commentators including the ''Guardian'' saw the move as retaliation for the band choosing not to re-sign with EMI.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2007/nov/08/emi.musicindustry |title=EMI stab Radiohead in the back catalogue |last=Nestruck |first=Kelly |date=8 November 2007 |website=[[The Guardian]] |language=en|access-date=17 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181117193325/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2007/nov/08/emi.musicindustry|archive-date=17 November 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> In June 2008, EMI released a [[greatest hits]] album, ''[[Radiohead: The Best Of]]''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Radiohead to release 'Best Of' compilation |url=https://www.nme.com//news/radiohead/35609 |work=NME |___location=UK |date=3 April 2008|access-date=3 April 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080404000759/http://www.nme.com/news/radiohead/35609|archive-date=4 April 2008|url-status=live}}</ref> It was made without Radiohead's involvement and contains only songs recorded under their contract with EMI. Yorke was critical of the release, calling it a "wasted opportunity".<ref>{{cite web |last=Reynolds |first=Simon |date=9 May 2008 |title=Yorke slams Radiohead ''Best Of'' LP |url=http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/a95605/yorke-slams-radiohead-best-of-lp.html?rss |access-date=27 September 2008 |work=[[Digital Spy]]}}</ref> As [[social media]] expanded around the turn of the decade, Radiohead gradually withdrew their public presence, with no promotional interviews or tours to promote new releases. ''Pitchfork'' wrote that around this time Radiohead's "popularity became increasingly untethered from the typical formalities of record promotion, placing them on the same level as [[Beyoncé]] and [[Kanye West]]".<ref name="Curious Case" />

In 2003, Jonny Greenwood released ''[[Bodysong (album)|Bodysong]]'', an instrumental soundtrack he wrote for the [[Bodysong|documentary]] of the same name, directed by [[Simon Pummell]]. The soundtrack includes diverse orchestration, much of it processed electronically, ranging from string quartets to piano to soprano sax to ondes martenot. It was the first solo album credited to a member of Radiohead, although his brother Colin contributes bass. Greenwood has also composed the pieces "Smear," "Popcorn Superhet Receiver" and "Piano for Children" in his capacity as BBC's resident composer. He appeared on Pavement's album ''[[Terror Twilight]]'' in 1999, playing harmonica and guitar on several tracks.

=== 2009–2010: reissues, singles and side projects ===

Thom Yorke's first solo album, entitled ''[[The Eraser]]'', was released [[July 10]], [[2006]] on [[XL Records]] in the UK and [[July 11]] in North America. Initially planned as a low key instrumental electronica record created by Yorke on his laptop, it grew into full songs under the guidance of producer Nigel Godrich. Yorke himself has shied away from describing the album as a "solo" effort, declaring that "doesn't sound right".[http://www.ateaseweb.com/news/archive/2006/05/thoms_album_the.php] Of these ''Eraser'' songs, only Cymbal Rush and The Clock has been played live by the band, though they have expressed interest in the idea of playing others, having each made cameo appearances on Yorke's album. A song from ''The Eraser'', "Black Swan", features in the end credits of [[Richard Linklater]]'s 2006 film ''[[A Scanner Darkly (film)|A Scanner Darkly]]'', along with several previously released Radiohead songs heard briefly in the soundtrack.

In 2009, EMI reissued the albums recorded while Radiohead was signed to them in a series of expanded "Collector's Editions", without Radiohead's involvement.<ref name="DOMBAL reissue">{{citation |last=Dombal |first=Ryan |title=Radiohead's First Three Albums Reissued and Expanded |date=14 January 2009 |magazine=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]] |url=https://pitchfork.com/news/34391-radioheads-first-three-albums-reissued-and-expanded/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090317215443/http://pitchfork.com/news/34391-radioheads-first-three-albums-reissued-and-expanded/ |archive-date=17 March 2009 |url-status=live}}</ref> Press reaction expressed concern that EMI was exploiting Radiohead's back catalogue.<ref>{{citation |last=Fitzmaurice |first=Larry |title=Radiohead's First Three Albums Reissued with Extras |date=15 January 2009 |magazine=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]] |url=https://www.spin.com/2009/01/radioheads-first-three-albums-reissued-extras/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090122214440/http://spin.com/articles/radioheads-first-three-albums-reissued-extras |archive-date=22 January 2009 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="DOMBAL reissue" /><ref>{{citation |last=Kreps |first=Daniel |title=Radiohead's First Three Albums Reissued with Extras |date=15 January 2009 |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/radioheads-first-three-albums-return-as-reissues-march-24th-20090115 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110803002824/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/radioheads-first-three-albums-return-as-reissues-march-24th-20090115 |archive-date=3 August 2011 |url-status=live}}</ref> In May, Radiohead began new recording sessions with Godrich.<ref>{{cite web |author=Lindsay, Andrew |title=Radiohead begin recording new album |date=18 May 2009 |url=http://stereokill.net/2009/05/18/radiohead-begin-recording-new-album/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090703112006/http://stereokill.net/2009/05/18/radiohead-begin-recording-new-album/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=3 July 2009 |publisher=Stereokill.net|access-date=18 May 2009}}</ref> In August, they released "[[Harry Patch (In Memory Of)]]", a tribute song to [[Harry Patch]], the last surviving British soldier to have fought in [[World War I]], with proceeds donated to the [[British Legion]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.radiohead.com/deadairspace/?a=495 |title=Harry Patch (In Memory Of) |publisher=Radiohead.com|access-date=5 August 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090828044117/http://www.radiohead.com/deadairspace/?a=495|archive-date=28 August 2009|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/aug/06/radiohead-song-harry-patch |title=Radiohead's farewell to old first world war soldier in song |last=Harris |first=John |date=6 August 2009 |work=The Guardian |___location=UK|access-date=6 August 2009|archive-url=https://archive.today/20181116063022/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/aug/06/radiohead-song-harry-patch|archive-date=16 November 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> The song has no conventional rock instrumentation, and instead comprises Yorke's vocals and a string arrangement composed by Jonny Greenwood.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/lucyjones/100002153/radioheads-tribute-to-harry-patch-strikes-the-right-note/ |title=Radiohead's tribute to Harry Patch strikes the right note |last=Jones |first=Lucy |date=6 August 2009 |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|access-date=18 August 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120325015934/http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/lucyjones/100002153/radioheads-tribute-to-harry-patch-strikes-the-right-note/|archive-date=25 March 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> Later that month, another new song, "[[These Are My Twisted Words]]", featuring [[krautrock]]-like drumming and guitars,<ref name="RS">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/new-radiohead-song-these-are-my-twisted-words-leaks-20090813 |title=New Radiohead Song "These Are My Twisted Words" Leaks |author=Daniel Kreps |date=13 August 2009 |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|access-date=21 August 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130203012053/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/new-radiohead-song-these-are-my-twisted-words-leaks-20090813|archive-date=3 February 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> was leaked via [[torrent file|torrent]], possibly by Radiohead.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/aug/14/new-radiohead-song |title=Was the new Radiohead song leaked by the band? |author=Sean Michaels |date=14 August 2009 |newspaper=[[The Guardian|guardian.co.uk]]|access-date=21 August 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131005073720/http://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/aug/14/new-radiohead-song|archive-date=5 October 2013|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="RS" /> It was released as a free download on the Radiohead website the following week.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.radiohead.com/deadairspace/index.php?a=497 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090819035635/http://www.radiohead.com/deadairspace/index.php?a=497 |url-status=dead |archive-date=19 August 2009 |title=These Are My Twisted Words |author=Jonny Greenwood |date=17 August 2009 |publisher=Dead Air Space (radiohead.com)|access-date=21 August 2009|author-link = Jonny Greenwood}}</ref> Commentators saw the releases as part of Radiohead's new unpredictable release strategy, without the need for traditional marketing.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://thequietus.com/articles/02447-radiohead-versus-the-release-schedule |title=Radiohead Versus The Release Schedule |last=Wallace |first=Wyndham |date=11 August 2009 |magazine=[[The Quietus]]|access-date=19 July 2011}}</ref>

In 2009, Yorke formed a new band, [[Atoms for Peace (band)|Atoms for Peace]], to perform his solo material, with musicians including Godrich and the [[Red Hot Chili Peppers]] bassist [[Flea (musician)|Flea]]. They played eight North American shows in 2010.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/blogs/alternate-take/q-a-thom-yorke-on-atoms-for-peaces-mechanistic-new-album-20121105 |title=Q&A: Thom Yorke on Atoms for Peace's 'Mechanistic' New Album |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |date=5 November 2012|access-date=18 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140627192707/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/blogs/alternate-take/q-a-thom-yorke-on-atoms-for-peaces-mechanistic-new-album-20121105|archive-date=27 June 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> In January 2010, Radiohead played their only full concert of the year in the Los Angeles [[Henry Fonda Theater]] as a benefit for [[Oxfam]]. Tickets were auctioned, raising over half a million US dollars for the NGO's [[2010 Haiti earthquake]] relief.<ref>{{cite news |title=Musicians for Oxfam: Radiohead, will.i.am, and more |publisher=oxfamamerica.org |date=8 February 2010 |access-date=7 January 2011 |url=http://blogs.oxfamamerica.org/index.php/2010/02/08/musicians-for-oxfam-radiohead-will-i-am-and-more/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100217100643/http://blogs.oxfamamerica.org/index.php/2010/02/08/musicians-for-oxfam-radiohead-will-i-am-and-more/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 February 2010 |last=Kramer |first=Anna}}</ref> That December, a fan-made video of the performance, ''[[Radiohead for Haiti]]'', was released via YouTube and torrent with Radiohead's support and a "pay-what-you-want" link to donate to Oxfam.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2010/12/radiohead-for-haiti-full-video-from-fonda.html |title=Video: View the full Radiohead for Haiti benefit concert online, compiled from fan footage |last=Roberts |first=Randall |date=28 December 2010 |work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=7 January 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110312081244/http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2010/12/radiohead-for-haiti-full-video-from-fonda.html|archive-date=12 March 2011|url-status=live}}</ref> Radiohead also released the [[soundboard recording]] of their 2009 Prague performance for use in a [[fan-made]] concert video, ''Live in Praha''.<ref>{{cite web |date=2 September 2010 |title=Radiohead-Approved, Fan-Shot Concert Movie Released |url=https://pitchfork.com/news/39935-radiohead-approved-fan-shot-concert-movie-released/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100905001657/http://pitchfork.com/news/39935-radiohead-approved-fan-shot-concert-movie-released/ |archive-date=5 September 2010 |access-date=4 September 2010 |publisher=Pitchfork.com}}</ref> The videos were described as examples of Radiohead's openness to fans and positivity toward non-commercial internet distribution.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/sep/01/radiohead-fan-made-live-film |title=Radiohead lend their music to fan-made live DVD |last=Michaels |first=Sean |date=1 September 2010 |work=The Guardian|access-date=4 September 2010 |___location=UK|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140508100726/http://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/sep/01/radiohead-fan-made-live-film|archive-date=8 May 2014|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nme.com//news/radiohead/52847 |title=Radiohead help fans 'bootleg' their own gig |date=3 September 2010 |work=NME |___location=UK|access-date=4 September 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100905052813/http://www.nme.com/news/radiohead/52847|archive-date=5 September 2010|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Discography==

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In June 2010, Yorke and Jonny Greenwood performed a surprise set at [[Glastonbury Festival]], performing ''Eraser'' and Radiohead songs.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://pitchfork.com/news/39283-thom-yorke-and-jonny-greenwood-play-surprise-glastonbury-set/ |title=Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood Play Surprise Glastonbury Set |date=25 June 2010|access-date=3 January 2015 |website=Pitchfork |last=Fitzmaurice |first=Larry|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150103211724/http://pitchfork.com/news/39283-thom-yorke-and-jonny-greenwood-play-surprise-glastonbury-set/|archive-date=3 January 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> Selway released his debut solo album, ''[[Familial (album)|Familial]]'', in August.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Fox |first=Killian |date=28 August 2010 |title=Philip Selway: ''Familial'' |language=en-GB |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/aug/29/philip-selway-familial-album-review |url-status=live |access-date=28 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160408203827/http://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/aug/29/philip-selway-familial-album-review |archive-date=8 April 2016 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> ''Pitchfork'' described it as a collection of "hushed" folk songs in the tradition of [[Nick Drake]], with Selway on guitar and vocals.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Dombal |first=Ryan |date=26 July 2010 |title=Radiohead's Selway talks new solo LP, does not talk new Radiohead LP |url=https://pitchfork.com/news/39537-radioheads-selway-talks-new-solo-lp-does-not-talk-new-radiohead-lp/ |access-date=7 April 2022 |website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]] |language=en-US}}</ref>

==Trivia==

=== 2011–2012: ''The King of Limbs'' ===

*Having played over 800 concerts, Radiohead have rarely, if ever, repeated a setlist exactly. Ed O'Brien says, "one of the worst things in music is when bands play the same set every night."<ref>Mathis-Lilley, Ben. "Secrets of the Radiohead Set List." ''New York'' magazine, June 26, 2006.[http://nymag.com/arts/all/process/17306/index.html]</ref>

[[File:CLIVE DEAMER pic Pete Judge.jpg|thumb|upright=0.8|A second drummer, [[Clive Deamer]], has joined Radiohead on tour since 2012. He also performed on the "Staircase / The Daily Mail" single and ''A Moon Shaped Pool''.]]

Radiohead released their eighth album, ''[[The King of Limbs]]'', on 18 February 2011 as a download from their website.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2011/feb/18/radiohead-king-of-limbs-live |title=Radiohead release The King of Limbs |last=Swash |first=Rosie |date=19 February 2011 |work=The Guardian|access-date=18 February 2011 |___location=UK|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140508075607/http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2011/feb/18/radiohead-king-of-limbs-live|archive-date=8 May 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> Following the protracted recording and more conventional rock instrumentation of ''In Rainbows'', Radiohead developed ''The King of Limbs'' by [[Sample (music)|sampling]] and [[Music loop|looping]] their recordings with [[Turntablism|turntables]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/r2147056/review |title=''The King of Limbs'' Review |website=Allmusic|access-date=21 August 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=Alexis Petridis |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/feb/24/radiohead-king-limbs-review |title=Radiohead: ''The King of Limbs'' review |work=The Guardian |date=25 February 2011|access-date=21 April 2011 |___location=London|archive-url=https://archive.today/20181116223201/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/feb/24/radiohead-king-limbs-review|archive-date=16 November 2018|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2011/02/snap-judgment-radioheads-king-of-limbs.html |title=Snap Judgment: Radiohead's ''The King of Limbs'' |work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=20 April 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110305085842/http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2011/02/snap-judgment-radioheads-king-of-limbs.html|archive-date=5 March 2011|url-status=live}}</ref> It was followed by a retail release in March through XL, and a special "newspaper album" edition in May.<ref>Swash, Rosie (14 February 2011). [https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/feb/14/radiohead-new-album "Radiohead to release new album this Saturday"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131225045140/http://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/feb/14/radiohead-new-album |date=25 December 2013}}. ''The Guardian''. Retrieved 16 February 2011.</ref>

''The King of Limbs'' sold an estimated 300,000 to 400,000 copies through Radiohead's website.<ref name="Fricke-2012" /> The retail edition debuted at number six on the US [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]]<ref>{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/472190/britney-spears-snares-sixth-no-1-on-billboard-200-with-femme-fatale |title=Britney Spears Snares Sixth No. 1 on Billboard 200 with 'Femme Fatale{{'-}}|date=6 April 2011|first=Keith|last=Caulfield|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|___location=Los Angeles|access-date=20 April 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130508080130/http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/472190/britney-spears-snares-sixth-no-1-on-billboard-200-with-femme-fatale|archive-date=8 May 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> and number seven on the [[UK Albums Chart]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.musicweek.com/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=1044784&c=1 |first=Alan |last=Jones |date=3 April 2011 |title=Adele claims album record but loses to Lopez in singles |work=[[Music Week]] |publisher=[[United Business Media]]|access-date=20 April 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131005092931/http://www.musicweek.com/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=1044784&c=1|archive-date=5 October 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> It was nominated for five categories in the [[54th Grammy Awards]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Nominess and Winners |date=1 December 2011|access-date=1 December 2011 |publisher=Grammy.com |url=http://www.grammy.com/nominees|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120201120225/http://www.grammy.com/nominees|archive-date=1 February 2012}}</ref> Two tracks not included on ''The King of Limbs'', "[[Supercollider / The Butcher|Supercollider" and "The Butcher]]", were released as a double A-side single for [[Record Store Day]] in April.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.recordstoreday.co.uk/exclusive-product.aspx |title=Record Store Day – Exclusive Product|work=Record Store Day |access-date=16 April 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120731180429/http://www.recordstoreday.co.uk/exclusive-product.aspx|archive-date=31 July 2012|url-status=live |last1=Day |first1=Record Store }}</ref> A compilation of ''King of Limbs'' remixes by various artists, ''[[TKOL RMX 1234567]]'', was released in September.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.avclub.com/radiohead-remix-album-set-for-release-in-september-1798226888 |title=Radiohead remix album set for release in September |last=Hyden |first=Steven |date=9 September 2011 |newspaper=[[The A.V. Club]]|access-date=10 September 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111022005754/http://www.avclub.com/articles/radiohead-remix-album-set-for-release-in-september%2C60151/|archive-date=22 October 2011|url-status=live}}</ref>

*Artists Radiohead have invited to open for them on tour include [[Deerhoof]], [[Sigur Rós]], [[Supergrass]], [[Spiritualized]], [[Sparklehorse]], [[Stephen Malkmus]] (of [[Pavement]]), [[Kid Koala]], [[Low]], [[Clinic]], [[Four Tet]] and [[The Beta Band]], among others. In 1997 the band wanted to tour together with [[Björk]], but the plan fell through.

To perform the rhythmically complex ''King of Limbs'' material live, Radiohead enlisted a second drummer, [[Clive Deamer]], who had worked with [[Portishead (band)|Portishead]] and [[Get the Blessing]].<ref name="Selway and evolution">{{cite web |date=9 November 2014 |title=Phil Selway and the evolution of rock drumming in the digital age |url=http://monomusicmag.com/phil-selway-and-the-evolution-of-rock-drumming-in-the-digital-age/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141110000743/http://monomusicmag.com/phil-selway-and-the-evolution-of-rock-drumming-in-the-digital-age/|archive-date=10 November 2014|access-date=9 November 2014 |website=Mono}}</ref> In June, Radiohead played a surprise performance on the Park stage at the 2011 Glastonbury Festival, performing songs from ''The King of Limbs'' for the first time.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.nme.com//news/radiohead/57549 |title=Radiohead play 'surprise' Glastonbury show with sixth member |date=24 June 2011|access-date=18 February 2015 |magazine=NME|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141020231054/http://www.nme.com/news/radiohead/57549|archive-date=20 October 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> With Deamer, Radiohead recorded ''[[The King of Limbs: Live from the Basement]]'', released online in August 2011.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nme.com//news/music/radiohead-232-1270222 |title=Watch Radiohead's 'From The Basement' session in full on NME.COM – video – NME |date=18 August 2011 |newspaper=NME |language=en-US|access-date=30 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161230232835/http://www.nme.com/news/music/radiohead-232-1270222|archive-date=30 December 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> It was also broadcast by international BBC channels and released on DVD and Blu-ray in January 2012.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Radiohead's The King of Limbs: Live from the Basement to Be Released on DVD |newspaper=[[Paste (magazine)|Paste]] |url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2011/11/radioheads-the-king-of-limbs-live-from-the-basemen.html |url-status=dead |access-date=30 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161230231742/https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2011/11/radioheads-the-king-of-limbs-live-from-the-basemen.html |archive-date=30 December 2016}}</ref> The performance included two new songs, "[[The Daily Mail / Staircase|The Daily Mail" and "Staircase]]", released as a double A-side download single in December 2011.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://metro.co.uk/2011/12/13/radiohead-to-release-new-singles-the-daily-mail-and-staircase-253852/ |title=Radiohead to release new singles The Daily Mail and Staircase |newspaper=[[Metro (British newspaper)|Metro]] |date=13 December 2011|access-date=21 August 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130518080914/http://metro.co.uk/2011/12/13/radiohead-to-release-new-singles-the-daily-mail-and-staircase-253852/|archive-date=18 May 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> In February 2012, Radiohead began their first extended North American tour in four years, including dates in the United States, Canada and Mexico.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://radiohead.com/deadairspace/111107/Touring-2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111109035703/http://radiohead.com/deadairspace/111107/touring-2012 |url-status=dead |archive-date=9 November 2011 |title=Touring 2012 – RADIOHEAD &#124; Dead Air Space |publisher=Radiohead|access-date=12 November 2011}}</ref>

*During their early career Radiohead opened for bands including [[R.E.M.]], [[PJ Harvey]], [[Belly]] and [[Tears for Fears]].

On 16 June 2012, an hour before gates were due to open at Toronto's [[Downsview Park]] for the final concert of Radiohead's North American tour, the [[Radiohead stage collapse|roof of the venue's temporary stage collapsed]], killing the drum technician Scott Johnson and injuring three other members of Radiohead's [[road crew]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18474835 |title=Radiohead stage collapse 'kills one' in Canada |newspaper=BBC News |date=17 June 2012|access-date=28 September 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150606213736/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18474835|archive-date=6 June 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> After rescheduling the tour, Radiohead paid tribute to Johnson at their next concert, in Nîmes, France, in July.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/radiohead-honor-late-drum-tech-at-first-show-since-stage-collapse-20120711 |title=Radiohead Honor Late Drum Tech at First Show Since Stage Collapse &#124; Music News |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=11 July 2012|access-date=16 August 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120714235624/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/radiohead-honor-late-drum-tech-at-first-show-since-stage-collapse-20120711|archive-date=14 July 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> In June 2013, [[Live Nation]] Canada Inc, two other organisations and an engineer were charged with 13 charges under Ontario health and safety laws.<ref name="Technician death">{{Cite news |title='I feel so let down by Canada': Radiohead and drum tech's parents demand answers in his Toronto death |language=en |work=[[CBC News]] |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/radiohead-drum-technician-death-1.4422702|url-status=live|access-date=30 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171130023446/http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/radiohead-drum-technician-death-1.4422702|archive-date=30 November 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/live-nation-engineer-charged-in-radiohead-stage-collapse-1.1387677 |title=Live Nation, engineer charged in Radiohead stage collapse |work=[[CBC News]] |date=7 June 2013|access-date=8 June 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130608075820/http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2013/06/07/toronto-live-nation-ontario-ministry-of-labour-optex.html|archive-date=8 June 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> In September 2017, after several delays, the case was dropped under the [[R v Jordan (2016)|Jordan ruling]], which sets strict time limits on trials.<ref name="Technician death" /> Radiohead released a statement condemning the decision.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Monroe |first=Jazz |date=8 September 2017 |title=Radiohead on stalled stage collapse case: "We are appalled" |url=https://pitchfork.com/news/radiohead-on-stalled-stage-collapse-case-we-are-appalled/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170908201541/https://pitchfork.com/news/radiohead-on-stalled-stage-collapse-case-we-are-appalled/|archive-date=8 September 2017|access-date=9 September 2017 |website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]] |language=en}}</ref> A 2019 inquest returned a verdict of [[accidental death]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sodomsky |first=Sam |date=11 April 2012 |title=Radiohead share statement following stage collapse inquest |url=https://pitchfork.com/news/radiohead-share-statement-following-stage-collapse-inquest/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190412021902/https://pitchfork.com/news/radiohead-share-statement-following-stage-collapse-inquest/|archive-date=12 April 2019|access-date=14 April 2012 |website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]}}</ref>

*Radiohead members are featured as characters in the 2001 ''[[South Park]]'' episode "[[Scott Tenorman Must Die]]". The band asked Parker and Stone to design T-shirts in the style of the show for their July 2001 gig in [[Oxford]]'s South Park.

=== 2013–2014: side projects and move to XL ===

*The Radiohead song "Paranoid Android" is featured in the theme song of [[anime]] [[Ergo Proxy]].

[[File:Radiohead New Jersey 2012.jpg|thumb|Radiohead performing on the 2012 ''King of Limbs'' tour|alt=]]In February 2013, Yorke and Godrich's band, Atoms for Peace, released an album, ''[[Amok (Atoms for Peace album)|Amok]]''.<ref>{{cite news |last=Petridis |first=Alexis |author-link=Alexis Petridis |date=21 February 2013 |title=Atoms for Peace: ''Amok'' – review |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/feb/21/atoms-for-peace-amok-review |url-status=live |access-date=1 January 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102194005/http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/feb/21/atoms-for-peace-amok-review |archive-date=2 January 2014}}</ref> The pair made headlines that year for their criticism of the free [[streaming media|music streaming]] service [[Spotify]]. Yorke accused Spotify of only benefiting major labels with large back catalogues, and encouraged artists to build their own "direct connections" with audiences instead.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23313445 |title=Thom Yorke pulls albums from Spotify |date=15 July 2013 |newspaper=BBC News|access-date=5 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131205105304/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23313445|archive-date=5 December 2013|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/oct/07/spotify-thom-yorke-dying-corpse |title=Thom Yorke calls Spotify 'the last desperate fart of a dying corpse' |date=7 October 2013 |newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=7 October 2013 |author=Stuart Dredge|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131007071008/http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/oct/07/spotify-thom-yorke-dying-corpse|archive-date=7 October 2013|url-status=live}}</ref>

In February 2014, Radiohead released an app, ''PolyFauna'', a collaboration with the British [[digital art]]s studio Universal Everything, with music and imagery from ''The King of Limbs''.<ref>{{cite web |author=Battan |first=Carrie |date=11 February 2014 |title=Radiohead release PolyFauna app |url=https://pitchfork.com/news/53922-radiohead-release-polyfauna-app/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140214101507/http://pitchfork.com/news/53922-radiohead-release-polyfauna-app/ |archive-date=14 February 2014 |access-date=11 February 2014 |work=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]}}</ref> In May, Yorke contributed a soundtrack, ''Subterranea'', to ''The'' ''Panic Office'', an installation of Radiohead artwork in Sydney, Australia.<ref>{{cite web |date=22 May 2015 |title=Thom Yorke produces new music for Australian exhibition of Radiohead artwork |url=http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/musicnews/s4240562.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150523035850/http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/musicnews/s4240562.htm |archive-date=23 May 2015 |access-date=22 May 2015 |website=[[Triple J]]}}</ref> Yorke and Selway released their solo albums ''[[Tomorrow's Modern Boxes]]'' and ''[[Weatherhouse (album)|Weatherhouse]]'' in late 2014.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://pitchfork.com/news/56876-thom-yorke-announces-new-album-tomorrows-modern-boxes |title=Thom Yorke Announces New Album Tomorrow's Modern Boxes &#124; News |last1=Gordon |first1=Jeremy |date=26 September 2014 |website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140926232956/http://pitchfork.com/news/56876-thom-yorke-announces-new-album-tomorrows-modern-boxes/|archive-date=26 September 2014|access-date=26 September 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nme.com//news/radiohead/78101 |title=Radiohead drummer Philip Selway announces new album ''Weatherhouse'' |last=Stevens |first=Jenny |date=24 June 2014 |website=[[NME]] |language=en-GB|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304120601/http://www.nme.com/news/radiohead/78101|archive-date=4 March 2016|access-date=29 January 2016}}</ref> Jonny Greenwood scored his third Anderson film, ''[[Inherent Vice (film)|Inherent Vice]]''; it features a version of an unreleased Radiohead song, "Spooks", performed by Greenwood and members of [[Supergrass]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/oct/07/radiohead-jonny-greenwood-supergrass-spooks-cover-inherent-vice-track |title=Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood hires Supergrass to cover Inherent Vice track |last=Michaels |first=Sean |date=7 October 2014 |website=[[The Guardian]] |language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141007221436/http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/oct/07/radiohead-jonny-greenwood-supergrass-spooks-cover-inherent-vice-track|archive-date=7 October 2014|url-status=dead|access-date=14 September 2018}}</ref> ''[[Junun (album)|Junun]]'', a collaboration between Greenwood, Godrich, the Israeli composer [[Shye Ben Tzur]] and Indian musicians, was released in November 2015,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Colter Walls |first=Seth |date=19 November 2015 |title=Shye Ben Tzur / Jonny Greenwood / The Rajasthan Express: ''Junun'' album review |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/21213-junun/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170116074920/http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/21213-junun/ |archive-date=16 January 2017 |access-date=15 January 2017 |website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]}}</ref> accompanied by a [[Junun (film)|documentary directed by Anderson]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/2015/film/reviews/junun-film-review-1201613807/ |title=Film Review: 'Junun' |website=Variety |date=8 October 2015|access-date=9 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151009191758/http://variety.com/2015/film/reviews/junun-film-review-1201613807/|archive-date=9 October 2015|url-status=live}}</ref>

*Portions of Radiohead's song "[[You And Whose Army?]]" are [[Sampling (music)|sampled]] by [[The Roots]] on a 2006 track called "Atonement." For a comprehensive list of cover versions, interpretations and remixes of Radiohead songs by other musical artists, see [[Radiohead overview and influence#Covers, interpretations & remixes|Radiohead by others]] article.

In April 2016, Radiohead's back catalogue was acquired by [[XL Recordings]], which had released the retail editions of ''In Rainbows'' and ''The King of Limbs'' and most of Yorke's solo work.<ref name="Billboard – move from Warner">{{cite magazine |title=Radiohead's Early Catalog Moves From Warner Bros. to XL |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7318964/radioheads-early-catalog-warner-bros-xl |date=4 April 2016|access-date=5 April 2016 |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |last=Christman |first=Ed}}</ref> XL reissued Radiohead's back catalogue on vinyl in May 2016.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Spice |first=Anton |date=6 May 2016 |title=Radiohead to reissue entire catalogue on vinyl |url=http://www.thevinylfactory.com/vinyl-factory-news/radiohead-reissue-entire-catalogue-vinyl/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160826093045/http://www.thevinylfactory.com/vinyl-factory-news/radiohead-reissue-entire-catalogue-vinyl/ |archive-date=26 August 2016 |access-date=6 May 2017 |website=[[The Vinyl Factory]]}}</ref>

==Further reading==

=== Online references ===

*Draper, Brian. [http://www.licc.org.uk/culture/thom-yorke-interview Interview with Thom Yorke.] ''Third Way'' magazine, December 2004. Vol. 27, No. 10.

*McLean, Craig. [http://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm/story/0,,1795948,00.html "All messed up."] ''The Observer'', June 18, 2006.

*Ross, Alex. [http://www.therestisnoise.com/2004/04/mahler_1.html "The Searchers: Radiohead's unquiet revolution."] ''The New Yorker'', August 20 and 27, 2001.

*Smith, Andrew. [http://observer.guardian.co.uk/life/story/0,6903,375564,00.html "Sound and Fury."] ''The Observer'', October 1, 2000.

*White, Curtis. [http://www.centerforbookculture.org/context/no6/white.html "Kid Adorno."] ''Context''. Issue No. 6.

*[http://ateaseweb.com/biography/ At Ease: Radiohead Biography]

*[http://www.followmearound.com/presscuttings.php?PHPSESSID=2816bfdc8f8fc4be8f1a6403fb9e9263 Follow Me Around: Radiohead Press Cuttings]

*[http://www.rockonthenet.com/artists-r/radiohead_main.htm Rock on the Net: Radiohead timeline & discography]

=== 2015–2016: ''A Moon Shaped Pool'' ===

===Books===

Radiohead began work on their ninth studio album in September 2014.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4148661-dis-meets-radioheads-philip-selway--if-it-means-something-to-some-people-then-that-is-success |title=DiS Meets Radiohead's Philip Selway: "If it means something to some people then that is success" |last=Langham |first=Matt |date=4 February 2015 |work=[[Drowned in Sound]]|access-date=4 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150204143203/http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4148661-dis-meets-radioheads-philip-selway--if-it-means-something-to-some-people-then-that-is-success|archive-date=4 February 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2015, they resumed work in the La Fabrique studio near [[Saint-Rémy-de-Provence]], France.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/just-playing-in-a-room-with-friends/ |title=In a room with Radiohead |last=Thorpe |first=Adam |date=18 May 2016 |website=The Times Literary Supplement|access-date=19 May 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160521213231/http://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/just-playing-in-a-room-with-friends/|archive-date=21 May 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> The sessions were marred by the death of Godrich's father<ref name="hanging out with Radiohead">{{Cite magazine |last=Greene |first=Andy |date=8 June 2017 |title=19 Things We Learned Hanging Out With Radiohead |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/19-things-we-learned-hanging-out-with-radiohead-w486278 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170608150813/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/19-things-we-learned-hanging-out-with-radiohead-w486278 |archive-date=8 June 2017 |access-date=8 June 2017 |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]}}</ref> and Yorke's separation from his wife, [[Rachel Owen]], who died from cancer in 2016.<ref name="inside OK Computer">{{Cite magazine |last=Greene |first=Andy |date=1 June 2017 |title=Radiohead's rhapsody in gloom: The story behind ''OK Computer'' |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/exclusive-thom-yorke-and-radiohead-on-ok-computer-w484570 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170531145331/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/exclusive-thom-yorke-and-radiohead-on-ok-computer-w484570 |archive-date=31 May 2017 |access-date=1 June 2017 |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]}}</ref> Work was interrupted when Radiohead were commissioned to write the theme for the 2015 [[James Bond]] film ''[[Spectre (2015 film)|Spectre]]''.<ref name="hanging out with Radiohead" /> Their first submission, "[[Man of War (song)|Man of War]]", was rejected as it had not been written for the film.<ref name="Sawyer-2017">{{Cite web |last=Sawyer |first=Miranda |date=5 November 2017 |title=Sound and Vision: Sam Mendes |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09clppp |access-date=6 November 2017 |website=[[BBC]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite AV media |url=https://www.amazon.com/Sound-007-Mat-Whitecross/dp/B0B8L83SWF |title=The Sound of 007 |date=October 2022 |type=documentary |language= |publisher=[[Amazon Prime]] |trans-title= |___location= |time=1:06:00 |access-date=8 October 2022 |format= |ref= |id= |isbn= |oclc= |quote= |people=}}</ref> After their second submission, "[[Spectre (song)|Spectre]]", was also rejected, Radiohead released it on the audio streaming site [[SoundCloud]] on Christmas Day 2015.<ref>{{cite web |date=25 December 2015 |title=Radiohead reveal rejected theme for James Bond film Spectre |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-35178921|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151225215044/http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-35178921|archive-date=25 December 2015|access-date=25 December 2015 |website=BBC News}}</ref>

*''Radiohead: An Illustrated Biography'' by Nick Johnstone (1997, ISBN 0-7119-6581-1)

*''Radiohead: From a Great Height'' by Jonathan Hale (1999, ISBN 1-55022-373-9)

*''Radiohead: Hysterical and Useless'' by Martin Clarke (2000, ISBN 0-85965-332-3)

*''Exit Music: The Radiohead Story'' by Mac Randall, (2000, ISBN 0-385-33393-5)

*''Radiohead: Back to Save the Universe'' by James Doheny (2002, ISBN 1-56025-398-3)

*''Radiohead: A Visual Documentary'' by Tim Footman and Billy Dancer (2002, ISBN 1-84240-179-3)

*''[[The Music and Art of Radiohead]]'' edited by Joseph Tate (2005, ISBN 0-7546-3980-0)

*''Radiohead: The Complete Guide to Their Music'' by Mark Paytress (2005, ISBN 1-84449-507-8)

*''OK Computer'' by Dai Griffiths, from ''[[33 1/3]]'' series (2005, ISBN 0-8264-1663-2)

Radiohead's ninth studio album, ''[[A Moon Shaped Pool]]'', was released digitally in May 2016, followed by retail versions in June via XL Recordings.<ref name="Pitchfork Daydreaming22" /> It was promoted with music videos for the singles "[[Daydreaming (Radiohead song)|Daydreaming]]" (directed by Anderson) and "[[Burn the Witch (Radiohead song)|Burn the Witch]]".<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/1133-decoding-the-politics-in-radioheads-burn-the-witch-video/ |title=Decoding the Politics in Radiohead's "Burn the Witch" Video |last=Hogan |first=Marc |date=3 May 2016 |website=Pitchfork|access-date=6 May 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160506062235/http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/1133-decoding-the-politics-in-radioheads-burn-the-witch-video/|archive-date=6 May 2016|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Pitchfork Daydreaming22">{{cite web |url=https://pitchfork.com/news/65297-radiohead-announce-new-album-release-date-share-daydreaming-video/ |title=Radiohead Announce New Album Release Date, Share "Daydreaming" Video |last=Philips |first=Amy |website=Pitchfork |date=6 May 2016|access-date=6 May 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160508231728/http://pitchfork.com/news/65297-radiohead-announce-new-album-release-date-share-daydreaming-video/|archive-date=8 May 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> The album includes several songs written years earlier, including "[[True Love Waits (song)|True Love Waits]]",<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.vulture.com/2016/05/history-radiohead-true-love-waits.html |title=The 21-Year History of Radiohead's 'True Love Waits,' a Fan Favorite Two Decades in the Making |last=Reilly |first=Dan |date=10 May 2016 |website=Vulture|access-date=11 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160907002120/http://www.vulture.com/2016/05/history-radiohead-true-love-waits.html|archive-date=7 September 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> and strings and [[Choir|choral vocals]] performed by the [[London Contemporary Orchestra]].<ref name="91x2">{{cite web |url=http://www.91x.com/uncategorized/hear-radioheads-new-albuma-moon-shaped-pool-at-11pm-tonight-on-the-ftw-new-music-show/ |title=Hear Radiohead's New Album "A Moon Shaped Pool" at 11pm tonight on the FTW New Music Show |date=8 May 2016 |website=91X FM|access-date=12 May 2016|archive-url=https://archive.today/20160521171321/http://www.91x.com/uncategorized/hear-radioheads-new-albuma-moon-shaped-pool-at-11pm-tonight-on-the-ftw-new-music-show/|archive-date=21 May 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> It became Radiohead's sixth UK number-one album<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/radiohead-score-sixth-number-1-album-with-a-moon-shaped-pool__15040/ |title=Radiohead score sixth Number 1 album with A Moon Shaped Pool |publisher=officialcharts.com|access-date=13 May 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160516231757/http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/radiohead-score-sixth-number-1-album-with-a-moon-shaped-pool__15040/|archive-date=16 May 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> and reached number three in the US.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/7541143/billboard-200-chart-moves-radiohead-a-moon-shaped-pool |title=Billboard 200 Chart Moves: Radiohead's 'A Moon Shaped Pool' Returns After Special Edition's Release |last=Caulfield |first=Keith |date=13 October 2016 |website=[[Billboard 200|Billboard]]|access-date=15 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200209180004/https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/7541143/billboard-200-chart-moves-radiohead-a-moon-shaped-pool|archive-date=9 February 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> It was the fifth Radiohead album nominated for the [[Mercury Prize]], making Radiohead the most shortlisted act in Mercury history,<ref>{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/david-bowie-radiohead-and-more-nominated-for-mercury-prize-w432686 |title=David Bowie, Radiohead and more nominated for Mercury Prize |last=Leight |first=Elias |date=4 August 2016 |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160805213442/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/david-bowie-radiohead-and-more-nominated-for-mercury-prize-w432686|archive-date=5 August 2016|access-date=5 August 2016}}</ref> and was nominated for [[Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album|Best Alternative Music Album]] and [[Grammy Award for Best Rock Song|Best Rock Song]] (for "Burn the Witch") at the [[59th Annual Grammy Awards]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7597556/grammys-nominees-complete-list-2017 |title=Here Is the Complete List of Nominees for the 2017 Grammys |newspaper=Billboard|access-date=7 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161206151125/http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7597556/grammys-nominees-complete-list-2017|archive-date=6 December 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> It appeared on several publications' lists of the best albums of the year.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.avclub.com/article/v-clubs-20-best-albums-2016-246644 |title=The A.V. Club's Top 50 Albums of 2016 |date=12 December 2016 |work=[[The A.V. Club]]|access-date=12 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161212062316/http://www.avclub.com/article/v-clubs-20-best-albums-2016-246644|archive-date=12 December 2016|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/nov/30/the-best-albums-of-2016 |title=The best albums of 2016 |date=30 November 2016 |work=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=5 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170315225333/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/nov/30/the-best-albums-of-2016|archive-date=15 March 2017|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/9980-the-50-best-albums-of-2016/?page=5 |title=The 50 Best Albums of 2016 |date=13 December 2016 |work=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]|access-date=13 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161213222904/http://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/9980-the-50-best-albums-of-2016/?page=5|archive-date=13 December 2016|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/50-best-albums-of-2016-w451265/radiohead-a-moon-shaped-pool-w451343 |title=50 Best Albums of 2016 |date=29 November 2016 |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|access-date=29 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161129210043/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/50-best-albums-of-2016-w451265/radiohead-a-moon-shaped-pool-w451343|archive-date=29 November 2016|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://time.com/4577061/top-10-best-albums-2016/ |title=The Top 10 Best Albums |date=22 November 2016 |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|access-date=22 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161128143048/http://time.com/4577061/top-10-best-albums-2016/|archive-date=28 November 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Dissertations ===

*"Authenticity in Rock Culture (Kurt Cobain, Nirvana, Radiohead)" by Mark Mazullo (1999, University of Minnesota)

*“Contextually Defined Musical Transformations” by Jonathan Kochavi (2002, State University of New York at Buffalo)

*[http://www.illuin.org/Marianne/Marianne_Tatom_Letts_dissertation.pdf "'How to Disappear Completely': Radiohead and the Resistant Concept Album"] by Marianne Tatom Letts (2005, University of Texas at Austin)

[[File:Radiohead second show at Le Zénith in Paris. May 24th 2016.jpg|thumb|Radiohead performing on the 2016 ''Moon Shaped Pool'' tour]]

==Notes==

In 2016, 2017 and 2018, Radiohead toured Europe, Japan, and North and South America,<ref name="Pitchfork – Radiohead in Amsterdam">{{cite web |last=Monroe |first=Jazz |date=20 May 2016 |title=Radiohead in Amsterdam: a tour opener live blog |url=https://pitchfork.com/news/65603-radiohead-in-amsterdam-a-tour-opener-live-blog/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160520221831/http://pitchfork.com/news/65603-radiohead-in-amsterdam-a-tour-opener-live-blog/ |archive-date=20 May 2016 |access-date=21 May 2016 |website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://pitchfork.com/news/63069-radiohead-announce-world-tour/ |title=Radiohead Announce World Tour |website=Pitchfork |date=14 March 2016|access-date=14 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160315221524/http://pitchfork.com/news/63069-radiohead-announce-world-tour/|archive-date=15 March 2016|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://pitchfork.com/news/radiohead-announce-north-american-tour/ |title=Radiohead Announce North American Tour {{!}} Pitchfork|last1=Wicks|first1=Amanda|last2=Monroe|first2=Jazz|date=20 February 2018|website=pitchfork.com|language=en|access-date=12 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180228213102/https://pitchfork.com/news/radiohead-announce-north-american-tour/|archive-date=28 February 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> including headline shows at the [[Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival|Coachella]] and [[Glastonbury Festival|Glastonbury]] festivals.<ref name="Glastonbury 2017" /> They were joined again by Deamer.<ref name="Pitchfork – Radiohead in Amsterdam" /> The tours included a performance in Tel Aviv in July 2017, disregarding the [[Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions]] campaign for an international cultural [[Boycotts of Israel|boycott of Israel]]. The performance was criticised by artists including [[Roger Waters]] and [[Ken Loach]], and a petition urging Radiohead to cancel it was signed by more than 50 prominent figures.<ref>{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/roger-waters-criticizes-whining-thom-yorke-over-radioheads-israel-gig-197361/ |title=Roger Waters Criticizes 'Whining' Thom Yorke Over Radiohead's Israel Gig |last=Kreps |first=Daniel |date=16 July 2017 |magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=18 July 2018 |language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180718084115/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/roger-waters-criticizes-whining-thom-yorke-over-radioheads-israel-gig-197361/|archive-date=18 July 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> In a statement, Yorke responded: "We don't endorse [[Netanyahu]] any more than [[Donald Trump|Trump]], but we still play in America. 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."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Beaumont-Thomas |first=Ben |date=12 July 2017 |title=Radiohead's Thom Yorke responds as Ken Loach criticises Israel gig |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/jul/12/thom-yorke-radiohead-ken-loach-criticises-israel-gig |access-date=15 July 2017 |work=[[The Guardian]] |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

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=== 2017–2020: ''OKNOTOK'' and ''MiniDiscs [Hacked]'' ===

== External links ==

In June 2017, Radiohead released a 20th-anniversary ''OK Computer'' reissue, ''[[OK Computer OKNOTOK 1997 2017|OKNOTOK 1997 2017]]'', comprising a remastered version of the album, B-sides, and previously unreleased material.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Althea |first=Legaspi |date=2 June 2017 |title=Hear Radiohead's Previously Unreleased Song 'I Promise' |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/hear-radioheads-previously-unreleased-song-i-promise-w485420 |url-status=live |magazine=Rolling Stone |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170602060245/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/hear-radioheads-previously-unreleased-song-i-promise-w485420 |archive-date=2 June 2017 |access-date=2 June 2017}}</ref> Radiohead promoted the reissue with music videos for the bonus tracks "[[I Promise (Radiohead song)|I Promise]]", "[[Man of War (song)|Man of War]]" and "[[Lift (Radiohead song)|Lift]]".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Monroe |first=Jazz |date=2 June 2017 |title=Watch Radiohead's New "I Promise" Video {{!}} Pitchfork |url=https://pitchfork.com/news/73929-watch-radioheads-new-i-promise-video/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170605081435/http://pitchfork.com/news/73929-watch-radioheads-new-i-promise-video/ |archive-date=5 June 2017 |access-date=2 June 2017 |website=Pitchfork}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Leight |first=Elias |date=23 June 2017 |title=See Radiohead's Paranoia-Inducing 'Man of War' Video |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/see-radioheads-paranoia-inducing-man-of-war-video-w489190 |url-status=live |magazine=Rolling Stone |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170623133539/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/see-radioheads-paranoia-inducing-man-of-war-video-w489190 |archive-date=23 June 2017 |access-date=23 June 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=12 September 2017 |title=Video: Radiohead – "Lift" |work=Spin |url=https://www.spin.com/2017/09/radiohead-lift-video/ |url-status=live |access-date=12 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170912192927/https://www.spin.com/2017/09/radiohead-lift-video/ |archive-date=12 September 2017}}</ref> ''OKNOTOK'' reached number two on the [[UK Albums Chart|UK Album Chart]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Official Albums Chart Top 100 |url=http://www.officialcharts.com/charts/albums-chart/20170630/7502/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180909113733/http://www.officialcharts.com/charts/albums-chart/20170630/7502/ |archive-date=9 September 2018 |access-date=9 September 2018 |website=[[Official Charts Company]] |language=en}}</ref> boosted by Radiohead's televised Glastonbury performance that week,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Beech |first=Mark |title=The Glastonbury Effect: Radiohead Back At Top Of U.K. Chart, Foo Fighters Follow |work=Forbes |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/markbeech/2017/06/26/the-glastonbury-effect-radiohead-back-at-top-of-u-k-chart-foo-fighters-follow/#496824ad5506 |url-status=live |access-date=27 June 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170627000813/https://www.forbes.com/sites/markbeech/2017/06/26/the-glastonbury-effect-radiohead-back-at-top-of-u-k-chart-foo-fighters-follow/#496824ad5506 |archive-date=27 June 2017}}</ref> and reached number 23 on the US [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]].<ref>{{Cite magazine |title=Billboard 200 Chart Moves: Ed Sheeran's 'Divide' Tracks Surpass 1 Billion U.S. Streams |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/7874021/ed-sheeran-divide-songs-1-billion-streams |url-status=live |magazine=Billboard |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180819121715/https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/7874021/ed-sheeran-divide-songs-1-billion-streams |archive-date=19 August 2018 |access-date=19 August 2018}}</ref> In August, Yorke and Jonny Greenwood performed a benefit concert in the [[Marche]], Italy, to help restoration efforts following the [[August 2016 Central Italy earthquake]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Monroe |first=Jazz |date=20 June 2017 |title=Radiohead announce Italian earthquake benefit show |url=https://pitchfork.com/news/radiohead-announce-italian-earthquake-benefit-show/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170822182651/http://pitchfork.com/news/radiohead-announce-italian-earthquake-benefit-show/ |archive-date=22 August 2017 |access-date=22 August 2017 |website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]}}</ref> In September, the nature documentary series ''[[Blue Planet II]]'' premiered featuring a new version of the ''King of Limbs'' track "Bloom", created with the composer [[Hans Zimmer]].<ref>{{Cite news |agency=Press Association |date=14 September 2017 |title=The ultimate chill out song? Radiohead record new music for David Attenborough's Blue Planet 2 |work=The Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2017/09/14/radiohead-record-new-song-sir-david-attenboroughs-blue-planet/ |url-status=live |access-date=14 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180412222743/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2017/09/14/radiohead-record-new-song-sir-david-attenboroughs-blue-planet/ |archive-date=12 April 2018 |issn=0307-1235}}</ref>

[[File:RadioheadMontreal170718-80 (42696337945).jpg|thumb|Radiohead performing in Montreal in July 2018]]

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Radiohead were nominated for the [[Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]] in 2017, their first year of eligibility.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://consequence.net/2017/10/rock-n-roll-hall-of-fame-2018-nominees-radiohead-rage-against-the-machine-kate-bush/?wasp=facebook-ads |title=Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame 2018 nominees: Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, Kate Bush |last=Young |first=Alex |date=5 October 2017 |work=Consequence of Sound|access-date=5 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171006013148/https://consequence.net/2017/10/rock-n-roll-hall-of-fame-2018-nominees-radiohead-rage-against-the-machine-kate-bush/?wasp=facebook-ads|archive-date=6 October 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> They were nominated again in 2018 and inducted the following March. Though Jonny Greenwood and Yorke were uninterested in the event, Selway and O'Brien attended and made speeches.<ref name="Greene-2019">{{Cite magazine |last1=Greene |first1=Andy |last2=Wang |first2=Amy X. |date=30 March 2019 |title=Read the heartfelt rock and roll hall of fame speeches by (some of) Radiohead |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/read-the-heartfelt-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-speeches-by-some-of-radiohead-814701/ |url-status=live |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |language=en-US |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190330030715/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/read-the-heartfelt-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-speeches-by-some-of-radiohead-814701/ |archive-date=30 March 2019 |access-date=30 March 2019}}</ref> The singer [[David Byrne]], one of Radiohead's formative influences, gave a speech praising Radiohead's musical and release innovations, which he said had influenced the whole music industry.<ref name="Blistein-2019">{{Cite magazine |last1=Blistein |first1=Jon |last2=Wang |first2=Amy X. |date=30 March 2019 |title=Read David Byrne's rock and roll hall of fame tribute to Radiohead |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/radiohead-david-byrne-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-induction-814063/ |url-status=live |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |language=en-US |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190330195046/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/radiohead-david-byrne-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-induction-814063/ |archive-date=30 March 2019 |access-date=30 March 2019}}</ref>

* [http://www.radiohead.com/ Radiohead.com]: The official Radiohead website. The Messageboard has gathered a cult following; members of the band occasionally post there. Since beginning new recording sessions in 2005, Radiohead members have also posted intermittently on their [[blog]] called [[Dead Air Space]], hosted here.

* [http://www.ateaseweb.com/ At Ease]: The largest fansite with frequent news updates and detailed information on the band. Has an extremely popular message board.

In June 2019, several hours of recordings made by Radiohead during the ''OK Computer'' period leaked online. In response, Radiohead made them available to purchase online as ''[[MiniDiscs (Hacked)|MiniDiscs [Hacked]]]'', with all proceeds to the environmentalist group [[Extinction Rebellion]].<ref>Ben Beaumont-Thomas, [https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/jun/11/radiohead-release-hours-of-hacked-songs-to-benefit-extinction-rebellion 'Radiohead release hours of hacked MiniDiscs to benefit Extinction Rebellion'] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190611132323/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/jun/11/radiohead-release-hours-of-hacked-songs-to-benefit-extinction-rebellion |date=11 June 2019}}, ''[[The Guardian]]'' 11 June 2019.</ref> In December, Radiohead made their discography available free on [[YouTube]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.openculture.com/2019/12/radiohead-puts-every-official-album-on-youtube.html |title=Radiohead puts every official album on YouTube, making them all free to stream |date=21 December 2019 |website=Open Culture |language=en-US|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191222033527/http://www.openculture.com/2019/12/radiohead-puts-every-official-album-on-youtube.html|archive-date=22 December 2019|access-date=22 December 2019}}</ref> The following January, they launched the Radiohead Public Library, an online archive of their work, including music videos, live performances, artwork and the 1998 documentary ''[[Meeting People Is Easy]]''.<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Kaufman |first1=Gil |date=20 January 2020 |title=Radiohead open 'Public Library' with rarities, videos, hard-to-find merch & more |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/8548451/radiohead-open-public-library-with-rarities |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200120232340/https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/8548451/radiohead-open-public-library-with-rarities |archive-date=20 January 2020 |access-date=20 January 2020 |magazine=[[Billboard (website)|Billboard]]}}</ref> Radiohead suspended their online content for [[Blackout Tuesday]] on 2 June, protesting racism and [[police brutality]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Savage |first=Mark |date=2 June 2020 |title=TV, radio and music stars mark 'Blackout Tuesday' |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-52889419|access-date=2 June 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200602215533/https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-52889419|archive-date=2 June 2020|url-status=live}}</ref>

* [http://www.progboard.com/en/Radiohead/229 Radiohead on Progboard]: Radiohead albums reviews and ratings

* [http://www.rhdiscog.com/ RHDiscog.com - Radiohead Discography]: The most comprehensive Radiohead discography on the internet.

In 2017, Selway released his third solo work, the soundtrack to the film ''Let Me Go''.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Garratt |first=John |date=3 November 2017 |title=Philip Selway: Let Me Go Original Soundtrack |language=en |work=PopMatters |url=https://www.popmatters.com/philip-selway-let-me-go-2495378270.html |url-status=live |access-date=11 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180613064059/https://www.popmatters.com/philip-selway-let-me-go-2495378270.html |archive-date=13 June 2018}}</ref> Jonny Greenwood was nominated for an [[Academy Award for Best Original Score]] for his fifth collaboration with Anderson, ''[[Phantom Thread]]'' (2017),<ref>{{Cite news |last=Young |first=Alex |date=23 January 2018 |title=Jonny Greenwood earns first-ever Oscar nomination |language=en-US |work=Consequence of Sound |url=https://consequence.net/2018/01/jonny-greenwood-earns-first-ever-oscar-nomination/ |access-date=21 February 2018}}</ref> and scored his second film by [[Lynne Ramsay]], ''[[You Were Never Really Here]]'' (2018).<ref>{{cite web |last=Lyttelton |first=Oliver |date=2 May 2017 |title=Jonny Greenwood Scoring Lynne Ramsay's 'You Were Never Really Here' With Joaquin Phoenix |url=http://theplaylist.net/jonny-greenwood-scoring-lynne-ramsays-never-really-joaquin-phoenix-20170502/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181205044631/https://theplaylist.net/jonny-greenwood-scoring-lynne-ramsays-never-really-joaquin-phoenix-20170502/ |archive-date=5 December 2018 |access-date=2 May 2017 |work=[[IndieWire]]}}</ref> Yorke released his first feature film soundtrack, ''[[Suspiria (Thom Yorke album)|Suspiria]]'' (2018),<ref>{{Cite news |last=Young |first=Alex |date=4 September 2018 |title=Thom Yorke details Suspiria soundtrack, shares "Suspirium": Stream |work=[[Consequence of Sound]] |url=https://consequence.net/2018/09/thom-yorke-suspiria-details/ |url-status=live |access-date=4 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180904192034/https://consequence.net/2018/09/thom-yorke-suspiria-details/ |archive-date=4 September 2018}}</ref> and his third solo album, ''[[Anima (Thom Yorke album)|Anima]]'' (2019), backed by a short film directed by Anderson.<ref>{{cite web |last=Bloom |first=Madison |date=20 June 2019 |title=Thom Yorke announces new album ''Anima'' |url=https://pitchfork.com/news/thom-yorke-announces-new-album-anima/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190620231529/https://pitchfork.com/news/thom-yorke-announces-new-album-anima/ |archive-date=20 June 2019 |access-date=21 June 2019 |website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]}}</ref> In 2020, O'Brien released his debut solo album, ''[[Earth (EOB album)|Earth]]'', under the moniker EOB.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Schatz |first=Lake |date=2 December 2019 |title=Radiohead's Ed O'Brien to release debut solo album in 2020, new single 'Brasil' coming this week |url=https://consequence.net/2019/12/radiohead-ed-obrien-debut-solo-album-release-date-2020/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191203092736/https://consequence.net/2019/12/radiohead-ed-obrien-debut-solo-album-release-date-2020/ |archive-date=3 December 2019 |access-date=3 December 2019 |website=[[Consequence of Sound]] |language=en-US}}</ref> He had been writing songs for years, but found they did not fit Radiohead.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Olson |first=Cathy Applefeld |date=17 April 2020 |title=Radiohead's Ed O'Brien on his Brazil-inspired solo debut ''Earth'' |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/radiohead-ed-obrien-earth-9360518/ |access-date=28 April 2024 |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Daniell |first=Mark |date=17 April 2020 |title=Radiohead's Ed O'Brien on going solo: 'Something was missing' |language=en-CA |newspaper=[[Toronto Sun]] |url=https://torontosun.com/entertainment/music/radioheads-ed-obrien-finds-own-voice-on-earth-something-was-missing |access-date=18 April 2020}}</ref> In April, to compensate for the lack of performances during the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], Radiohead began streaming old concert films on [[YouTube]] on a weekly basis.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Graves |first=Wren |date=28 May 2020 |title=Radiohead streaming 1994 show Live at the Astoria on YouTube: Watch |url=https://consequenceofsound.net/2020/05/radiohead-1994-show-live-at-the-astoria-youtube/ |access-date=2 June 2020 |website=[[Consequence of Sound]] |language=en-US}}</ref>

* [http://asuaf.org/~radiohead Radiohead Track Resource]: A catalogue of every officially released version of every Radiohead song and where to find them. Includes scans of the released media.

* [http://www.58hours.com/ 58Hours]:An in-depth database of nearly all of Radiohead's Live performances, with accompanying information and statistics on the live performance history of each (Radiohead) song.

=== 2021–present: ''Kid A Mnesia'', the Smile and side projects ===

* [http://www.waste.uk.com/ w.a.s.t.e]: Radiohead's official fan club and merchandise site.

[[File:The Smile 30 January 2022 - 2.png|thumb|Jonny Greenwood and Yorke performing with [[Tom Skinner (drummer)|Tom Skinner]] as [[The Smile (band)|the Smile]] in January 2022]]

* [http://www.greenplastic.com/ Green Plastic Radiohead]: One of the oldest and largest Radiohead fansites with updated news, lyrics, and an extensive database of live shows.

* {{Last.fm}}

Radiohead abandoned plans to tour in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Richards |first=Will |date=26 April 2020 |title=Radiohead were planning to tour in 2021 before coronavirus outbreak |url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/radiohead-were-planning-to-tour-in-2021-before-coronavirus-outbreak-2654013|access-date=31 May 2021 |website=[[NME]] |language=en-GB}}</ref> In November, they released ''[[Kid A Mnesia]]'', an anniversary reissue compiling ''Kid A'', ''Amnesiac'' and previously unreleased material. It was promoted with download singles and videos for the previously unreleased tracks "[[If You Say the Word]]" and "[[Follow Me Around]]".<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Martoccio |first=Angie |date=1 November 2021 |title=Radiohead's "Follow Me Around' is a holy grail for fans. 20 years later, it's here |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/radiohead-follow-me-around-video-guy-pearce-1251279/ |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |language=en-US|access-date=1 November 2021}}</ref> Plans for an art installation based on the albums were cancelled due to logistical problems and the pandemic. Instead, Radiohead created a free digital experience, ''[[Kid A Mnesia Exhibition]]'', for [[PlayStation 5]], [[macOS]] and [[Windows]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Stanton |first=Rich |date=18 November 2021 |title=Radiohead's freaky-looking ''Kid A Mnesiac'' exhibition-game-thing is out (and free!) |language=en |work=[[PC Gamer]] |url=https://www.pcgamer.com/radioheads-freaky-looking-kid-a-mnesiac-exhibition-game-thing-is-out-and-free/|access-date=20 November 2021}}</ref>

In a livestream event held by Glastonbury Festival in May 2021, Yorke and Jonny Greenwood debuted a new band, [[The Smile (band)|the Smile]], with the drummer [[Tom Skinner (drummer)|Tom Skinner]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=22 May 2021 |title=Radiohead's Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood form new project, the Smile |url=http://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/may/22/radioheads-thom-yorke-and-jonny-greenwood-form-new-project-the-smile|access-date=22 May 2021 |website=The Guardian |language=en}}</ref> Greenwood said the band was a way to work with Yorke during the [[COVID-19 lockdowns]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=3 September 2021 |title=Jonny Greenwood on writing the soundtrack for new Princess Diana biopic ''Spencer'' |url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/jonny-greenwood-spencer-soundtrack-interview-radiohead-new-album-the-smile-3036092|access-date=3 September 2021 |website=[[NME]] |language=en-GB}}</ref> In May 2022, they released their debut album, ''[[A Light for Attracting Attention]]'', to acclaim.<ref>{{cite web |title=''A Light for Attracting Attention'' |url=https://www.metacritic.com/music/a-light-for-attracting-attention/the-smile |access-date=12 May 2022 |website=[[Metacritic]]}}</ref> The ''Pitchfork'' critic Ryan Dombal described it as "instantly, unmistakably" the best album from a Radiohead side project.<ref name="Pitchfork-review">{{Cite web |last=Dombal |first=Ryan |date=12 May 2022 |title=The Smile: ''A Light for Attracting Attention'' |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/the-smile-a-light-for-attracting-attention/ |access-date=12 May 2022 |website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]] |language=en-US}}</ref> The Smile toured internationally between 2022 and 2024,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Richards |first=Will |date=18 May 2022 |title=The Smile debut new song 'Friend Of A Friend' as they kick off European tour |url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/the-smile-debut-new-song-friend-of-a-friend-as-they-kick-off-european-tour-3228250 |access-date=18 May 2022 |website=[[NME]] |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Murrary |first=Robin |date=30 January 2023 |title=The Smile announce ''Europe: Live Recordings 2022'' EP |url=https://www.clashmusic.com/news/the-smile-announce-europe-live-recordings-2022-ep/ |access-date=30 January 2023 |website=[[Clash (magazine)|Clash]] |language=en-GB}}</ref> and released the albums ''[[Wall of Eyes]]'' and ''[[Cutouts]]'', recorded simultaneously, in 2024.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Vito |first=Jo |date=28 August 2024 |title=The Smile announce new album ''Cutouts'', release two songs |url=https://consequence.net/2024/08/the-smile-new-album-cutouts-zero-foreign-spies-zero-sumsum-stream/ |access-date=28 August 2024 |website=[[Consequence (publication)|Consequence]] |language=en-US}}</ref> Critics interpreted the Smile as a liberating, lower-pressure project for Yorke and Greenwood,<ref name="Monroe-20242">{{Cite web |last=Monroe |first=Jazz |date=25 January 2024 |title=The Smile: ''Wall of Eyes'' |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/the-smile-wall-of-eyes/ |access-date=25 January 2024 |website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]] |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Walton |first=Sam |date=2 October 2024 |title=The Smile — ''Cutouts'' |url=https://www.loudandquiet.com/reviews/the-smile-cutouts/ |access-date=4 October 2024 |website=[[Loud and Quiet]] |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name="DeVille-2024">{{Cite web |last=DeVille |first=Chris |date=26 September 2024 |title=Premature evaluation: the Smile ''Cutouts'' |url=https://www.stereogum.com/2279890/the-smile-cutouts-album-review-thom-yorke/reviews/premature-evaluation/ |access-date=26 September 2024 |website=[[Stereogum]] |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Schonfeld |first=Zach |date=10 October 2024 |title=The Smile: ''Cutouts'' |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/the-smile-cutouts/ |access-date=17 October 2024 |website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]] |language=en-US}}</ref> with more jazz, [[krautrock]] and [[progressive rock]] influences and a looser, wilder sound.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Petridis |first=Alexis |author-link=Alexis Petridis |date=23 May 2021 |title=Live at Worthy Farm review – beautiful music marred by technical meltdown |url=http://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/may/23/live-at-worthy-farm-review-glastonburys-dodgy-pyramid-scheme-has-stunning-music |access-date=23 May 2021 |website=[[The Guardian]] |language=en}}</ref><ref name="Monroe-20242" /><ref name="DeVille-2024" />

Colin Greenwood toured with [[Nick Cave]] between 2022 and 2024,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Valentish |first=Jenny |date=28 November 2022 |title=Nick Cave and Warren Ellis review – a transcendent night that veered on holy |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/nov/28/nick-cave-and-warren-ellis-review-a-transcendent-night-that-veered-on-holy |access-date=28 November 2022 |website=[[The Guardian]] |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Minsker |first=Evan |date=23 March 2023 |title=Nick Cave announces tour featuring Radiohead bassist Colin Greenwood |url=https://pitchfork.com/news/nick-cave-announces-tour-featuring-radiohead-bassist-colin-greenwood/ |access-date=23 March 2023 |website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]] |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Lynskey |first=Dorian |date=5 September 2024 |title=Radiohead's Colin Greenwood on playing with Nick Cave: 'Am I a Bad Seed now? No!' |url=https://www.mojo4music.com/articles/stories/colin-greenwood-nick-cave/ |access-date=9 March 2025 |website=[[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]] |language=en}}</ref> and performed on Cave's 2024 album ''[[Wild God]].''<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Grow |first=Kory |date=6 March 2024 |title=Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Tease ''Wild God'' LP with bright title track: 'It seems we're happy' |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/nick-cave-wild-god-1234981528/ |access-date=6 March 2024 |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |language=en-US}}</ref> He released a book of his photographs of Radiohead in October 2024.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Dean |first=Jonathan |date=2 October 2024 |title=The time Thom Yorke smiled — candid snaps by the Radiohead bassist |url=https://www.thetimes.com/culture/music/article/radiohead-new-book-colin-greenwood-hl9prb3vd |access-date=3 October 2024 |website=[[The Times]] |language=en}}</ref> Selway released his third solo album, ''[[Strange Dance]]'', in February 2023.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Corcoran |first=Nina |date=26 October 2022 |title=Radiohead's Philip Selway announces new album, shares song |url=https://pitchfork.com/news/radiohead-philip-selway-announces-new-album-shares-song-listen/ |access-date=1 November 2022 |website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]] |language=en-US}}</ref> He also played drums and percussion on ''Versions of Us'' (2023) by [[Lanterns on the Lake]], and joined them on tour.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Geiger |first=Amy |date=27 February 2023 |title=Lanterns on the Lake recruit Radiohead drummer Philip Selway for new LP |url=https://www.brooklynvegan.com/lanterns-on-the-lake-recruit-radiohead-drummer-philip-selway-for-new-lp-stream-a-track/ |access-date=28 February 2023 |website=[[Brooklyn Vegan]] |language=en}}</ref> ''[[Jarak Qaribak]]'', an album by Jonny Greenwood and the Israeli rock musician [[Dudu Tassa]], was released in June.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Strauss |first=Matthew |date=13 April 2023 |title=Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood announces new album with Dudu Tassa, shares song |url=https://pitchfork.com/news/radiohead-jonny-greenwood-announces-new-album-with-dudu-tassa-shares-song-listen/ |access-date=13 April 2023 |website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]] |language=en-US}}</ref> Yorke released his second film soundtrack, ''[[Confidenza (soundtrack)|Confidenza]]'', in April 2024,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Harrison |first=Scoop |date=22 April 2024 |title=Thom Yorke previews ''Confidenza'' film score with two tracks |url=https://consequence.net/2024/04/thom-yorke-confidenza-score-knife-edge-prize-giving/ |access-date=22 April 2024 |website=[[Consequence (publication)|Consequence]] |language=en-US}}</ref> and began a solo tour, [[Everything (tour)|Everything]], in October.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ragusa |first=Paolo |date=23 October 2024 |title=Thom Yorke debuts new song at solo tour kick-off: setlist |url=https://consequence.net/2024/10/thom-yorke-solo-tour-kickoff-new-zealand-video-setlist/ |access-date=23 October 2024 |website=[[Consequence (publication)|Consequence]] |language=en-US}}</ref>

Selway said in 2023 that it was healthy for the Radiohead members to work with other musicians, that all the projects came under the Radiohead "umbrella", and that Radiohead "still very much exists".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Reed |first=Ryan |date=6 January 2023 |title=Radiohead's Philip Selway on atmospheric solo LP, Radiohead's future |url=https://www.spin.com/2023/01/radiohead-philip-selway-interview/ |access-date=7 January 2023 |website=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]] |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=DeVille |first=Chris |date=8 March 2023 |title=We've Got A File On You: Radiohead's Philip Selway |url=https://www.stereogum.com/2216269/philip-selway-radiohead-strange-dance-career-spanning-interview/interviews/weve-got-a-file-on-you/ |access-date=31 August 2023 |website=[[Stereogum]] |language=en}}</ref> Radiohead rehearsed in 2024, but Jonny Greenwood said they were focused on individual projects.<ref name="Ahmed-2024">{{Cite web |last=Ahmed |first=Aneesa |date=21 October 2024 |title=Thom Yorke 'really doesn't give a fuck' if you want Radiohead to return |url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/thom-yorke-really-doesnt-give-a-fuck-if-you-want-radiohead-to-return-3804946 |access-date=21 March 2025 |website=[[NME]] |language=en-GB}}</ref> Yorke said: "I think we've earned the right to do what makes sense to us without having to explain ourselves or be answerable to anyone else's historical idea of what we should be doing."<ref name="Ahmed-2024" /> Yorke reworked ''Hail to the Thief'' for a production of ''[[Hamlet]]'' by the [[Royal Shakespeare Company]] that opened at [[Aviva Studios]], Manchester, in April 2025.<ref name="Wiegand-2024">{{Cite news |last=Wiegand |first=Chris |date=2024-09-25 |title=''Hamlet Hail to the Thief'': Thom Yorke revisits Radiohead album for Shakespeare show |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/sep/26/hamlet-hail-to-the-thief-thom-yorke-radiohead-shakespeare-manchester |access-date=2024-09-25 |work=[[The Guardian]] |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> ''[[Tall Tales (Mark Pritchard and Thom Yorke album)|Tall Tales]]'', an album by Yorke and the electronic musician [[Mark Pritchard (musician)|Mark Pritchard]], was released in May.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Corcoran |first1=Nina |date=11 March 2025 |title=Mark Pritchard and Thom Yorke announce album, share video for new song |url=https://pitchfork.com/news/mark-pritchard-and-thom-yorke-announce-album-share-video-for-new-song-watch/ |access-date=11 March 2025 |work=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]}}</ref> ''This Is What You Get'', an exhibition of Yorke and Donwood's Radiohead artwork, opened at the [[Ashmolean Museum]] in Oxford in August.<ref>{{Cite web |date=21 November 2024 |title=Radiohead album covers to go on show at Oxford museum |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0k8y54442xo |access-date=2 April 2025 |website=[[BBC News]] |language=en-GB}}</ref> On 13 August, Radiohead released ''Hail to the Thief (Live Recordings 2003—2009)'', a selection of performances of ''Hail to the Thief'' tracks.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Dunworth |first=Liberty |date=2025-08-13 |title=Radiohead revisit 'archive' ''Hail to the Thief'' recordings on new live album: 'It's been a very cathartic process' |url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/radiohead-revisit-archive-hail-to-the-thief-recordings-new-live-album-3884656 |access-date=2025-08-13 |website=[[NME]] |language=en-GB}}</ref>

Pressure for Radiohead to boycott Israel grew following the outbreak of the [[Gaza war]] in 2023.<ref name="Jefferson-2024">{{Cite news |last=Jefferson |first=Dee |date=31 October 2024 |title=Thom Yorke walks off stage after being heckled by pro-Palestine protester at Melbourne concert |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/oct/31/thom-yorke-walks-off-stage-after-being-heckled-by-pro-palestine-heckler-at-melbourne-concert |access-date=31 October 2024 |work=[[The Guardian]] |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> Jonny Greenwood was criticised for performing in Tel Aviv with Tassa in May 2024, and responded in a statement that Israeli artists should not be silenced.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Wilkes |first=Emma |date=2024-06-04 |title=Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood speaks out against "silencing Israeli artists for being born Jewish in Israel" while defending current project |url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/radioheads-jonny-greenwood-speaks-out-against-silencing-israeli-artists-for-being-born-jewish-in-israel-while-defending-current-project-3762531 |access-date=2025-05-07 |website=[[NME]] |language=en-GB}}</ref> In October, Yorke temporarily left the stage after he was heckled by a [[pro-Palestine]] protester at a solo concert in Melbourne.<ref name="Jefferson-2024" /><ref name="Ritchie-2024">{{Cite web |last=Ritchie |first=Hannah |date=31 October 2024 |title=Radiohead singer Thom Yorke walks off stage as fan shouts Gaza protests |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yrv2zyd22o |access-date=1 November 2024 |website= |publisher=[[BBC News]] |language=en-GB}}</ref> In May 2025, two UK concerts by Jonny Greenwood and Tassa were canceled following threats to the venues and staff.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Snapes |first=Laura |date=2025-05-06 |title=Jonny Greenwood and Israeli musician Dudu Tassa condemn 'silencing' after UK concerts pulled |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/may/06/jonny-greenwood-and-israeli-musician-dudu-tassa-condemn-silencing-after-uk-concerts-pulled |access-date=2025-05-06 |work=[[The Guardian]] |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> Colin Greenwood described the cancellation as "a curtailment of free speech and the possibilities of forging bonds between people with music and art".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sanderson |first=David |date=2025-06-01 |title=Radiohead bassist: Concert cancellations 'curtail free speech' |url=https://www.thetimes.com/culture/music/article/radiohead-jonny-greenwood-israeli-musician-censorship-9h732fdwk |access-date=2025-06-02 |website=[[The Times]] |language=en}}</ref> That month, Yorke released a statement condemning the war efforts of Israel and [[Hamas]], and stated that pressuring artists to respond was not the solution.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Strauss |first=Matthew |date=2025-05-30 |title=Radiohead's Thom Yorke releases statement on Israel and Gaza |url=https://pitchfork.com/news/radiohead-thom-yorke-releases-statement-on-israel-and-gaza/ |access-date=2025-05-30 |website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]] |language=en-US}}</ref>

O'Brien has shown support for Palestine.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hudson |first=Alex |date=8 May 2025 |title=Radiohead's Ed O'Brien shows support for Palestine following Jonny Greenwood's BDS controversy |url=https://exclaim.ca/music/article/radiohead-s-ed-o-brien-shows-support-for-palestine-following-jonny-greenwood-s-bds-controversy |access-date=2025-07-30 |website=[[Exclaim!]] |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Duran |first=Anagricel |date=2024-01-02 |title=Radiohead's Ed O'Brien says he's "deep into" next solo album and calls for Gaza ceasefire |url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/radioheads-ed-obrien-says-hes-deep-into-next-solo-album-and-calls-for-gaza-ceasefire-3564583 |access-date=2025-07-30 |website=[[NME]] |language=en-GB}}</ref> Following [[Glastonbury Festival 2025]], he praised the band [[Kneecap (band)|Kneecap]] for their pro-Palestinian activism and defended his bandmates, saying: "My brothers abhor what is going on in Gaza. Just because they aren't all over social media or using the exact wording that some feel is necessary does not mean they aren't genuinely upset and angered by what is going on."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hudson |first=Alex |date=4 July 2025 |title=Ed O'Brien defends Radiohead bandmates amidst BDS boycott |url=https://exclaim.ca/music/article/ed-o-brien-defends-radiohead-bandmates-amidst-bds-boycott |access-date=2025-07-30 |website=[[Exclaim!]] |language=en}}</ref> ''Pitchfork'' wrote that the controversy had damaged Radiohead's public perception, and questioned their "ambiguous political position" after releasing albums such as ''Hail to the Thief'', which was "so evocative of the horrors of lopsided military annihilation".<ref>{{Cite web |last=O’Brien |first=Molly Mary |date=15 August 2025 |title=''Radiohead: Hail to the Thief (Live Recordings 2003—2009)'' |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/radiohead-hail-to-the-thief-live-recordings-2003-2009/ |access-date=2025-08-16 |website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]] |language=en-US}}</ref>

== Artistry ==

=== Style ===

Radiohead's musical style has been described as [[art rock]],{{refn|name="art-rock"|<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Radiohead: Biography |magazine=Rolling Stone |url=http://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/radiohead/biography|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612162156/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/radiohead/biography|archive-date=12 June 2018|access-date=20 January 2009 |quote="...the biggest art-rock act since Pink Floyd..."}}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Radiohead – British rock group |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia Britannica |url=http://www.britannica.com/topic/Radiohead|access-date=10 August 2015 |quote="...arguably the most accomplished art-rock band of the early 21st century..."}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Lahann |first1=Michael |title=All Surprises: Radiohead and the Art of Unconventional Album Releases |url=http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2016/may/02/all-surprises-radiohead-and-art-of-unconventional-album-release |website=[[The Guardian]] |date=2 May 2016|access-date=8 May 2016}}</ref>}} [[alternative rock]],{{refn|name="alt-rock"|<ref name="allmusic-biography">{{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/radiohead-mn0000326249/biography |title=Radiohead biography |publisher=[[AllMusic]] | access-date=20 February 2016 |author=[[Stephen Thomas Erlewine|Erlewine, Stephen Thomas]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://consequence.net/2016/01/radiohead-will-tour-in-2016/ |title=Radiohead will tour in 2016 |publisher=[[Consequence of Sound]] |date=21 January 2016 | access-date=20 February 2016 |author=Young, Alex}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.ew.com/article/2016/01/12/sam-smith-thom-yorke-spectre-radiohead |title=Sam Smith Hasn't Heard Radiohead's Spectre Theme |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |date=12 January 2016 | access-date=20 February 2016 |author=Robinson, Will}}</ref>}} [[electronica]],{{refn|name="eletronica"|<ref>{{cite web |title=Ranked: Radiohead |url=http://www.undertheradarmag.com/lists/ranked_radiohead/ |website=[[Under the Radar (magazine)|Under the Radar]]|access-date=8 May 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/kid-a-mw0000620999 |title=''Kid A'' – Radiohead |publisher=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=8 September 2011 |last=Erlewine |first=Stephen Thomas |author-link=Stephen Thomas Erlewine}}</ref>}} [[experimental rock]],{{refn|name="exp-rock"|<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/radiohead-tour-holly-herndon-shabazz-palaces/ |title=Why We're Happy Holly Herndon Is Touring with Radiohead |last1=Iadarola |first1=Alexander |website=[[Thump (Vice)|Thump]] |date=11 May 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160512131123/https://thump.vice.com/en_us/article/radiohead-tour-holly-herndon-shabazz-palaces|archive-date=12 May 2016|url-status=live |access-date=11 May 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/70598/true-love-waits-christopher-oriley-plays-radiohead |title=True Love Waits—Christopher O'Riley Plays Radiohead |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |date=21 June 2003 | access-date=20 February 2016}}</ref>}} [[progressive rock]],<ref name="allmusic-biography" /> [[grunge]],<ref name="allmusic-biography" /> [[art pop]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Exit Music: How Radiohead's OK Computer Destroyed the Art-Pop Album in Order to Save It |url=https://pitchfork.com/features/ok-computer-at-20/10038-exit-music-how-radioheads-ok-computer-destroyed-the-art-pop-album-in-order-to-save-it/ |access-date=20 March 2017 |website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]] |date=20 March 2017}}</ref> and [[electronic rock]].<ref>{{cite web |date=23 April 2017 |title=Radiohead started a sonic revolution 25 years ago, and is still leading it |url=https://www.digitaltrends.com/music/radiohead-tour-still-freshest-thing-in-music-2017/ |access-date=24 November 2017}}</ref> Critics found elements of grunge in their first album, ''Pablo Honey''.<ref>{{cite web |last=Jahasuriya |first=Mehan |date=15 March 2009 |title=Jigsaw Falling into Place: Revisiting Radiohead's '90s Output |url=https://www.popmatters.com/71398-jigsaw-falling-into-place-revisiting-radioheads-90s-output-2496047786.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160107022818/http://www.popmatters.com/feature/71398-jigsaw-falling-into-place-revisiting-radioheads-90s-output/P0/ |archive-date=7 January 2016 |access-date=28 December 2015 |work=[[PopMatters]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Kemp |first=Mark |date=26 March 2009 |title=Radiohead: Pablo Honey, the Bends, OK Computer (Reissues) |url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/radiohead/radiohead-pablo-honey-the-bends-ok-computer-reissu/ |website=[[Paste (magazine)|Paste]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Spicer |first=Al |date=2008 |title=Radiohead Pablo Honey Review |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/j5xm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100421180834/http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/j5xm |archive-date=21 April 2010 |access-date=5 July 2010 |publisher=[[BBC Music]]}}</ref> Their second album, ''The Bends'', is sometimes described as [[Britpop]], though Radiohead disliked Britpop, seeing it as a "backwards-looking" pastiche.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Pappademas |first=Alex |date=23 June 2003 |title=The Spin Record Guide: Essential Britpop |url=http://www.spin.com/2003/06/spin-record-guide-essential-britpop/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170614002823/http://www.spin.com/2003/06/spin-record-guide-essential-britpop/ |archive-date=14 June 2017 |access-date=19 January 2017 |magazine=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Monroe |first=Jazz |date=29 March 2017 |title=The 50 Best Britpop Albums |url=https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/10045-the-50-best-britpop-albums/ |access-date=4 October 2024 |website=[[Pitchfork Magazine|Pitchfork]]}}</ref><ref name="inside OK Computer" />

Radiohead songs often use [[Pivot (music)|pivot]] notes and [[pedal points]], creating "looser, roomier" harmonies and a "bittersweet, doomy" feeling.<ref name="ROSS" /> Many use [[Modal mixture|mixed modes]] and unusual or changing [[time signature]]s, such as "You", "[[Everything in Its Right Place]]", "Morning Bell" and "[[15 Step]]".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Witmer |first=Phil |date=2018-02-22 |title=The first song on Radiohead's debut album predicted their future greatness |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/radiohead-you-pablo-honey-25th-anniversary-music-theory-essay/ |access-date=2024-06-12 |website=[[Vice (website)|Vice]] |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Witmer |first=Phil |date=22 February 2018 |title=The first song on Radiohead's debut album predicted their future greatness |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/radiohead-you-pablo-honey-25th-anniversary-music-theory-essay/ |access-date=12 June 2024 |website=[[Vice (website)|Vice]] |language=en}}</ref> O'Brien said Radiohead were hesitant to create "epic" music, which they felt had negative associations of [[stadium rock]]. However, he conceded that "epic is also about beauty, like a majestic view", and cited "Weird Fishes/Arpeggi" as an example of a song that was "obviously epic in scope".<ref>{{cite news |author=Paytress |first=Mark |date=1 January 2008 |title=Chasing Rainbows |work=[[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]]}}</ref>

Jonny Greenwood said Radiohead strive to find a middle ground between their experimental influences and rock music, and were driven by a desire not to repeat themselves rather than to be "experimental".<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Pettigrew |first=Jason |date=September 2001 |title=How to reinvent completely |journal=[[Alternative Press (magazine)|Alternative Press]] |issue=158}}</ref> The drummer [[Clive Deamer]], who has recorded and performed with Radiohead since 2011, said Radiohead do not see themselves as a rock band and that their methodology is closer to jazz: "They deliberately try to avoid cliché and standard forms for the sake of the song ... Rock bands don't do that. It's far more like a jazz mentality."<ref>{{cite news |date=11 April 2012 |title=How jazz secretly invaded pop music |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/how-jazz-secretly-invaded-pop-music-7630523.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160718063833/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/how-jazz-secretly-invaded-pop-music-7630523.html |archive-date=18 July 2016 |access-date=25 July 2016 |language=en-GB}}</ref> Yorke dismissed accusations that Radiohead make "depressing" music, saying in 2004: "Depressing music to me is just shit music. It's like air freshener – just a nasty little poison in the air."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Draper |first=Brian |date=October 2004 |title=In-depth interview with Thom Yorke |url=https://highprofiles.info/interview/thom-yorke/ |access-date=21 January 2022 |website=High Profiles |language=en-GB}}</ref>

=== Songwriting ===

Though Yorke acts as Radiohead's director, all the members have a role in arrangement.<ref name="ECCLES" /><ref name="Klosterman-2003">{{Cite journal |last=Klosterman |first=Chuck |author-link=Chuck Klosterman |date=July 2003 |title=No more knives |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N0HASap-qBoC&dq=no%20more%20knives&pg=PA64 |journal=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]}}</ref> In 2004, Yorke said that while his power was once "absolutely unbalanced" and he would "subvert everybody else's power at all costs", later albums had been more democratic.<ref>{{cite news |last=Dalton |first=Stephen |date=1 April 2004 |title=Are we having fun yet? |url=http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/04/11/1081326991553.html?from=storyrhs |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080112192700/http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/04/11/1081326991553.html?from=storyrhs |archive-date=12 January 2008 |access-date=26 March 2007 |newspaper=[[The Age]] |___location=Melbourne}}</ref> He apologised to his bandmates for his earlier "control freak" behaviour.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Mohdin |first=Aamna |date=22 September 2019 |title=Thom Yorke opens up about pain of ex-partner's death |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/sep/22/thom-yorke-ex-partners-death-desert-island-discs-rachel-owen |access-date=6 May 2023 |work=[[The Observer]] |language=en-GB |issn=0029-7712}}</ref> O'Brien said that no member was replaceable and each was comfortable with their position.<ref name="Klosterman-2003" />

Radiohead songs usually begin as a sketch by Yorke, which is harmonically developed by Jonny Greenwood before the rest of the band develop their parts.<ref name="ROSS" /> Whereas Yorke does not read sheet music, Greenwood is trained in [[music theory]]. In ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]'', Ryan Dombal wrote that "the duo's left brain-right brain dynamic has proven to be one of the most adventurous in rock history".<ref name="Pitchfork-review" /> Yorke typically plays [[rhythm guitar]], while Greenwood plays most [[lead guitar]] parts and O'Brien often creates ambient effects, making extensive use of [[effects unit]]s.<ref name="Wylie-1997">{{Cite journal |last=Wylie |first=Harry |date=November 1997 |title=Radiohead |journal=[[Total Guitar]] |publisher=[[Future plc]] |issue=37}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |date=3 December 2010 |title=Ed O'Brien – 100 Greatest Guitarists: David Fricke's Picks |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-guitarists-of-all-time-19691231/ed-obrien-20101202 |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |access-date=24 August 2015}}</ref> O'Brien said Radiohead tired of songs "with distorted guitars all the way through" after ''Pablo Honey'', preferring separation and "riffs and melodies that interweave at different registers".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Amit |first=Sharma |date=9 June 2020 |title=Ed O'Brien: 'The guitar to me is like an oscillator on a synthesizer – it's the start of a sound rather than the sound in itself' |url=https://www.guitarworld.com/features/ed-obrien-the-guitar-to-me-is-like-an-oscillator-on-a-synthesizer-its-the-start-of-a-sound-rather-than-the-sound-in-itself |access-date=14 February 2022 |website=[[Guitar World]] |language=en}}</ref>

The ''Kid A'' and ''Amnesiac'' sessions brought a change in Radiohead's music and working methods.<ref name="ECCLES" /><ref>{{cite magazine |title=Radiohead: Biography |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/radiohead/biography |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110926075633/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/radiohead/biography |archive-date=26 September 2011 |access-date=14 September 2011 |magazine=Rolling Stone}}</ref> Since their shift from conventional rock instrumentation, the members have gained flexibility and often switch instruments.<ref name="ECCLES" /> On ''Kid A'' and ''Amnesiac'', Yorke played keyboard and bass, Jonny Greenwood played [[ondes Martenot]], Colin Greenwood worked on sampling, and O'Brien and Selway worked with drum machines and digital manipulation.<ref name="ECCLES" />

Jonny Greenwood said he saw Radiohead as "just a kind of an arrangement to form songs using whatever technology suits the song", be it a cello or a laptop.<ref name="inside OK Computer" /> They often attempt several approaches to songs, and may develop them over years. For example, Radiohead first performed "[[True Love Waits (song)|True Love Waits]]" in 1995, and recorded several versions before releasing it on ''A Moon Shaped Pool'' in 2016.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Pareles |first=Jon |date=8 May 2016 |title=Review: in Radiohead's ''A Moon Shaped Pool'', patient perfectionism |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/09/arts/music/radiohead-a-moon-shaped-pool-review.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160512202652/http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/09/arts/music/radiohead-a-moon-shaped-pool-review.html |archive-date=12 May 2016 |access-date=10 September 2016 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Selway said Radiohead had a tendency to overanalyse their work: "You have it there and then you just try to pull it apart and then when you put it back together it doesn't look like a television set any more ... But it was there all along."<ref name="Selway-2017">{{cite interview |last=Selway |first=Philip |subject-link=Philip Selway |interviewer=John Kennedy |title=X-Posure with John Kennedy |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7itTi8B7P_4 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/7itTi8B7P_4 |archive-date=21 December 2021 |url-status=live |work=[[Radio X (United Kingdom)|Radio X]] |publisher= |___location= |date=June 2017 |author-link= |others=}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

=== Influences ===

Among Radiohead's earliest influences were [[Queen (band)|Queen]],<ref name="influenceone">{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd8SBdqDd9k&t=1397s | archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211028/Dd8SBdqDd9k| archive-date=28 October 2021 |title=WTF with Marc Maron [Thom Yorke audio interview] |publisher=youtube |date=25 May 2013 |access-date=1 October 2015 |quote=I love Queen, they are great when I was really small [...] and then as I hit as a teenager, the band that really changed my life was R.E.M. and Siouxsie and the Banshees, Joy Division and Bob Dylan}}{{cbignore}}<br />{{cite web |first=Jeff |last=Klingman |url=https://www.thelmagazine.com/TheMeasure/archives/2013/07/22/10-bullet-points-from-the-thom-yorke-interview-on-wtf-with-marc-maron |title=10 Bullet Points from the Thom Yorke Interview on WTF with Marc Maron |publisher=TheLmagazine.com |date=22 July 2013|access-date=23 July 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130726113959/http://www.thelmagazine.com/TheMeasure/archives/2013/07/22/10-bullet-points-from-the-thom-yorke-interview-on-wtf-with-marc-maron|archive-date=26 July 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Bob Dylan]],<ref name="influenceone" /> [[Pink Floyd]], [[Elvis Costello]], [[post-punk]] acts such as [[Joy Division]],<ref name="influenceone" /> [[Siouxsie and the Banshees]]<ref name="influenceone" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/EOBBandOfficial/posts/767582517144200 |title=Ed O'Brien about John McGeoch |website=Ed O'Brien Official website |date=18 September 2020|access-date=2 October 2020|archive-url=https://archive.today/20201211204513/https://www.facebook.com/EOBBandOfficial/posts/767582517144200|archive-date=11 December 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> and [[Magazine (band)|Magazine]], and significantly 1980s [[alternative rock]] bands such as [[R.E.M.]],<ref name="influenceone" /> [[U2]], the [[Pixies (band)|Pixies]], [[the Smiths]] and [[Sonic Youth]].{{refn|name="influence-sonic-youth"|<ref name="guitar-world" /><ref name="ROSS" /><ref name="REYNOLDS" />}} Jonny Greenwood named the Magazine guitarist [[John McGeoch]] his biggest guitar influence.<ref>{{cite web |last=Greenwood |first=Jonny |date=11 February 2009 |title=I've been blown about for years |url=http://radiohead.com/deadairspace/index.php?a=455 |access-date=10 February 2022 |website=Dead Air Space |publisher=Radiohead.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090321164928/http://radiohead.com/deadairspace/index.php?a=455 |archive-date=21 March 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref> By the mid-1990s, Radiohead were adopting recording methods from [[hip hop music|hip hop]], inspired by the [[sample (music)|sampling]] work of [[DJ Shadow]],<ref name="guitar-world" /> and became interested in using computers to generate sounds.<ref>{{cite news |last=Gillespie |first=Ian |date=17 August 1997 |title=It all got very surreal |newspaper=[[London Free Press]] |url=http://www.greenplastic.com/coldstorage/articles/londonfreepress.html |url-status=usurped |access-date=21 April 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927012229/http://www.greenplastic.com/coldstorage/articles/londonfreepress.html |archive-date=27 September 2007}}</ref> Radiohead cited 60s and 70s jazz artists such as [[Miles Davis]], [[Charles Mingus]] and [[Alice Coltrane]] as influences.<ref name="Varga">{{Cite web |last=Varga |first=George |date=25 April 2019 |title=Radiohead's Jazz Frequencies |url=https://jazztimes.com/archives/radioheads-jazz-frequencies/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190826142100/https://jazztimes.com/archives/radioheads-jazz-frequencies/ |archive-date=26 August 2019 |access-date=13 May 2020 |website=[[Jazz Times]] |language=en-US}}</ref> According to Jonny Greenwood, "We bring in our favourite jazz albums, and say: we want to do this. And we enjoy the sound of our failing!"<ref name="Varga" /> He likened their jazz influence to 1950s English bands imitating American blues records.<ref name="Varga" /> Other influences include the soundtracks of [[Ennio Morricone]], 1960s rock groups such as [[the Beatles]] and [[the Beach Boys]], and [[Phil Spector]]'s "[[Wall of Sound|wall of sound]]" production.<ref name="guitar-world" /><ref name="LAUNCH" /> O'Brien said [[Scott Walker (singer)|Scott Walker]] was Radiohead's "unifying" influence, citing his voice, arrangements and instrumentation.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rogers |first=Jude |date=2020-04-22 |title=Coming up with the sunshine: Radio-Ed O'Brien's favourite music |url=https://thequietus.com/interviews/bakers-dozen/ed-o-brien-radiohead-interview-favourite-music/ |access-date=2025-07-19 |website=[[The Quietus]] |language=en-GB}}</ref>

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The [[electronic music]] of ''Kid A'' was inspired by Yorke's admiration for artists signed to the record label [[Warp Records]], such as [[Aphex Twin]] and [[Autechre]].<ref name="ZORIC" /> In 2013, Yorke named Aphex Twin as his biggest influence.<ref>{{Cite web |date=21 January 2013 |title=Uni of Yorke Class 1: FlyLo, the Gaslamp Killer & FaltyDL |url=https://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/15435/1/uni-of-yorke-class-1-flylo-the-gaslamp-killer-faltydl |access-date=11 June 2024 |website=[[Dazed]] |language=en}}</ref> ''Kid A'' also samples early [[computer music]],<ref name="SMITH" /> and 1970s [[krautrock]] bands such as [[Can (band)|Can]] and [[Neu!]] were other major influences during this period.<ref>{{cite journal |first=Lauren |last=Zoric |title=Fitter, Happier, More Productive |date=1 October 2000 |journal=[[Juice (magazine)|Juice]]}}</ref> Jonny Greenwood cited the influence of the [[20th-century classical music|20th-century classical]] composers [[Krzysztof Penderecki]] and [[Olivier Messiaen]].<ref name="LAUNCH" /> Since the recording of ''Kid A'', Greenwood has played the [[ondes Martenot]], an early electronic instrument popularised by Messiaen.<ref name="ROSS" /> While recording ''In Rainbows'', Radiohead mentioned rock, electronic, hip hop and experimental musicians as influences, including [[Björk]], [[M.I.A. (artist)|M.I.A]], [[Liars (band)|Liars]], [[Modeselektor]] and [[Spank Rock]].<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Radiohead's Secret Influences, from Fleetwood Mac to Thomas Pynchon |date=24 January 2008 |magazine=Rolling Stone |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/18060334/radioheads_secret_influences_from_fleetwood_mac_to_thomas_pynchon|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090612012329/http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/18060334/radioheads_secret_influences_from_fleetwood_mac_to_thomas_pynchon|archive-date=12 June 2009|url-status=dead|access-date=7 February 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |first=Nick |last=Kent |title=Ghost in the Machine |date=1 August 2006 |magazine=[[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]] |pages=74–82}}</ref>

=== Themes and lyrics ===

{{Further|Thom Yorke#Lyrics}}

Yorke is Radiohead's lyricist.<ref name="ROSS" /> Though his early lyrics were personal, from ''Kid A'' on, he experimented with [[Cut-up technique|cutting up]] words and phrases and assembling them at random.<ref>{{cite web |last=Eccleston |first=Danny |date=October 2000 |title=(Radiohead article) |url=http://www.followmearound.com/presscuttings.php?year=2000&cutting=89&PHPSESSID=c033bc19e81ba698894f33e264541fc4 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311024424/http://www.followmearound.com/presscuttings.php?year=2000&cutting=89&PHPSESSID=c033bc19e81ba698894f33e264541fc4 |archive-date=11 March 2007 |access-date=18 March 2007 |work=Q Magazine}}</ref> He does not write biographically, saying he instead writes "spasmodic" lyrics based on imagery and taken from external sources such as television.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Dean |first=Jonathan |date=7 July 2019 |title=Thom Yorke interview: the Radiohead frontman on his new solo album, Anima, why he struggles if he can't make music, and Billie Eilish |language=en |work=The Sunday Times |url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/thom-yorke-interview-radiohead-anima-billie-eilish-2wnwqmxdw |access-date=8 July 2019 |issn=0140-0460}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Hunter-Tilney |first=Ludovic |date=30 August 2023 |title=A Thom Yorke painting: yours for a song |work=[[Financial Times]] |url=https://www.ft.com/content/353d0eb7-db21-4741-9fef-0232efaa369a |access-date=1 September 2023}}</ref> He deliberately uses [[Cliché|cliches]], [[idiom]]s and other common expressions,<ref name="Kearney-2016">{{Cite magazine |last=Kearney |first=Ryan |date=31 May 2016 |title=The Radiohead Racket |url=https://newrepublic.com/article/133773/radiohead-racket |magazine=[[The New Republic]] |issn=0028-6583 |access-date=4 August 2021}}</ref> suggesting "a mind consumed by meaningless data".<ref name="Pitchfork-2">{{cite web |title=Radiohead: ''A Moon Shaped Pool'' album review |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/21907-a-moon-shaped-pool/ |access-date=11 May 2016 |website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]}}</ref> The ''[[The New Republic|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".<ref name="Kearney-2016" />

According to Yorke, many of his lyrics are motivated by anger, expressing his political and environmental concerns<ref>{{Cite episode |title='Everything In Its Right Place' interview outtake: "Another outtake from my @Radiohead interview on @npratc with Thom and Ed. What's The King of Limbs about?" |url=http://tvider.com/view/66328 |access-date=7 October 2011 |series=All Things Considered |network=[[NPR]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111010004818/http://tvider.com/view/66328 |archive-date=10 October 2011}}</ref> and written as "a constant response to [[doublethink]]".<ref>{{cite web |last=Sweet |first=Jay |date=8 August 2006 |title=Thom Yorke, Dancing in the Dark |url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2006/08/thom-yorke.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171027181555/https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2006/08/thom-yorke.html |archive-date=27 October 2017 |access-date=4 May 2015 |website=[[Paste (magazine)|Paste]]}}</ref> The ''[[GQ]]'' critic Josiah Gogarty wrote of "the uncharitable caricature that's sometimes fixed to [Radiohead's] music – Thom Yorke warbling vaguely political sentiments over fiddly drum patterns and melodies", which he argued began with ''Hail to the Thief'' and its references to the war on terror.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gogarty |first=Josiah |date=20 March 2025 |title=Every Radiohead album, ranked |url=https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/radiohead-albums-ranked |access-date=28 March 2025 |website=[[British GQ]] |language=en-GB}}</ref> ''Pitchfork'' wrote that Yorke's lyrics on ''A Moon Shaped Pool'' were less cynical, conveying wonder and amazement.<ref name="Pitchfork-2" />

== Legacy and influence ==

Radiohead are cited as one of the foremost rock bands of the 21st century.<ref name="BEATLE">{{Cite web |date=7 October 2014 |title=How Radiohead Became The Beatles Of The 21st Century |url=https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/how-radiohead-became-the-beatles-of-the-21st-century-8751 |access-date=7 September 2020 |website=NME |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Clément |first=Guillaume |date=15 June 2017 |title=Activism and Environmentalism in British Rock Music: the Case of Radiohead. |journal=Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique. French Journal of British Studies |language=en |volume=22 |issue=XXII-3 |doi=10.4000/rfcb.1499 |issn=0248-9015|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Radiohead {{!}} Members, Albums, & Facts|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Radiohead|access-date=13 September 2020|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=[[Andrew Harrison (journalist)|Andrew Harrison]] |date=12 October 2016 |title=How Radiohead Changed Music Forever |url=http://www.esquire.co.uk/culture/news/a11013/esquire-25-radiohead/|access-date=13 September 2020 |website=Esquire |language=en-GB|archive-date=28 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171128182141/http://www.esquire.co.uk/culture/news/a11013/esquire-25-radiohead/|url-status=dead}}</ref> By 2011, Radiohead had sold more than 30 million albums.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jonathan |first=Emma |date=3 May 2011 |title=BBC Worldwide takes exclusive Radiohead performance to the world |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/bbcworldwide/worldwidestories/pressreleases/2011/05_may/radiohead.shtml |access-date=30 November 2023 |website=[[BBC]] |language=en-GB}}</ref> Their 90s albums ''The Bends'' and ''OK Computer'' influenced a generation of British acts,<ref>{{cite news |date=16 July 2006 |title=The 50 albums that changed music |newspaper=[[The Observer]] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2006/jul/16/popandrock.shopping|url-status=live|access-date=15 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141008194254/http://www.theguardian.com/music/2006/jul/16/popandrock.shopping|archive-date=8 October 2014}}</ref> including [[Coldplay]], [[Keane (band)|Keane]], [[James Blunt]] and [[Travis (band)|Travis]].<ref>{{cite web |date=29 March 2017 |title=The 50 Best Britpop Albums |url=http://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/10045-the-50-best-britpop-albums/?page=5 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170602164010/http://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/10045-the-50-best-britpop-albums/?page=5 |archive-date=2 June 2017 |access-date=30 May 2017 |website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]}}</ref> ''<ref group="nb">Specifically, critics have cited ''OK Computer''{{'}}s influence on [[Muse (band)|Muse]], [[Coldplay]], [[Snow Patrol]], [[Keane (band)|Keane]], [[Travis (band)|Travis]], [[Doves (band)|Doves]], [[Badly Drawn Boy]], [[Editors (band)|Editors]] and [[Elbow (band)|Elbow]]. See:

* {{citation |last=Aza |first=Bharat |title=Ten years of OK Computer and what have we got? |date=15 June 2007 |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2007/jun/15/tenyearsofokcomputerandw |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/60jE5qiBg?url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2007/jun/15/tenyearsofokcomputerandw |archive-date=6 August 2011 |url-status=live}}

* {{citation |last=Eisenbeis |first=Hans |title=The Empire Strikes Back |date=July 2001 |magazine=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]}}

* {{citation |last=Richards |first=Sam |title=Album review: Radiohead Reissues – Collectors Editions |date=8 April 2009 |newspaper=[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]] |url=https://www.uncut.co.uk/reviews/radiohead-reissues-collectors-editions-6312/ |access-date=29 August 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101206061947/http://www.uncut.co.uk/music/radiohead/reviews/13013 |archive-date=6 December 2010 |url-status=live}}</ref>'' Radiohead's [[Experimental music|experimental]] approach is credited with expanding [[alternative rock]].<ref name="AllMusic-2" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=4 October 2021 |title=The 200 most important artists of the last 25 years |url=https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/most-important-artists/ |access-date=16 March 2025 |website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]] |language=en-US}}</ref>

According to the ''[[AllMusic]]'' journalist [[Stephen Thomas Erlewine]], in the early 21st century, Radiohead became "a touchstone for everything that is fearless and adventurous in rock", succeeding [[David Bowie]], [[Pink Floyd]] and [[Talking Heads]].<ref name="AllMusic-2">{{Cite web |title=Radiohead {{!}} Biography & History|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/radiohead-mn0000326249/biography|access-date=11 July 2020|website=AllMusic|language=en-us}}</ref> In 2001, [[Johnny Marr]], the guitarist for one of Radiohead's early influences, [[the Smiths]], said that Radiohead was the act that had "come closest to the genuine influence of the Smiths".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hoskyns |first=Barney |author-link=Barney Hoskyns |date=September 2001 |title=The Backpages Interview: Johnny Marr |url=https://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Article/the-backpages-interview-johnny-marr |url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011013053327/http://www.rocksbackpages.com/features/smiths/hoskyns.html |archive-date=13 October 2001 |access-date=16 October 2023 |website=[[Rock's Backpages]]}}</ref>

In 2003, the ''[[Village Voice]]'' critic [[Robert Christgau]] wrote that Radiohead were "the only youngish band standing that combines critical consensus with the ability to fill a venue larger than the [[Hammerstein Ballroom]]".<ref>{{cite news |last=Christgau |first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau |date=8 July 2003 |title=No Hope Radio |work=[[The Village Voice]] |url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/rock/radiohead-03.php|access-date=5 October 2021}}</ref> Gavin Haynes of ''[[NME]]'' described Radiohead in 2014 as "our generation's [[The Beatles|Beatles]]".<ref name="BEATLE" /> In 2020, the academic [[Daphne Brooks]] described Radiohead as "the blackest white rock band to emerge over the past 30 years", citing their black jazz influences, influence on black artists, and their "introspective other worlds", which parallel the work of radical black artists.<ref>{{cite news |last=Brooks |first=Daphne A.|author-link=Daphne Brooks |date=2 October 2020 |title=Why Radiohead are the Blackest white band of our times |work=[[The Guardian]] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/oct/02/why-radiohead-are-the-blackest-white-band-of-our-times|access-date=2 October 2020}}</ref>

=== Industry ===

''Kid A'' is credited for pioneering the use of the internet to stream and promote music.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hyden |first=Steven |date=29 September 2015 |title=How Radiohead's 'Kid A' Kicked Off the Streaming Revolution |url=http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/how-radioheads-kid-a-kicked-off-the-streaming-revolution |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150930220924/http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/how-radioheads-kid-a-kicked-off-the-streaming-revolution/ |archive-date=30 September 2015 |access-date=30 September 2015}}</ref><ref name="DeSantis">{{Cite web |last=DeSantis |first=Nick |title=Radiohead's Digital Album Sales, Visualized |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/nickdesantis/2016/05/10/radioheads-digital-album-sales-visualized/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20190222204347/https://www.forbes.com/ |archive-date=22 February 2019 |access-date=27 April 2019 |website=Forbes |language=en}}</ref> The pay-what-you-want release for ''In Rainbows'' is credited as a major step for music distribution.<ref>{{cite news |author=Paytress, Mark |date=1 January 2008 |title=Chasing Rainbows |work=Mojo}}</ref><ref name="Tyrangiel, Josh" /><ref name="nytimespay" /> ''[[Forbes]]'' wrote that it "helped forge the template for unconventional album releases in the internet age", ahead of artists such as [[Beyoncé]] and [[Drake (musician)|Drake]].<ref name="DeSantis" /> Speaking at Radiohead's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2019, the Talking Heads singer [[David Byrne]], an early influence on Radiohead, praised their musical and release innovations, which he said had influenced the entire music industry.<ref name="Blistein-2019" />

=== Accolades ===

{{See also|List of awards and nominations received by Radiohead}}

Radiohead's work places highly in both listener polls and critics' lists of the best music of the 1990s and 2000s.<ref>{{cite news |date=3 September 2000 |title=Radiohead gun for Beatles' Revolver |work=BBC News |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/908638.stm |url-status=live |access-date=28 September 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006084137/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/908638.stm |archive-date=6 October 2014}}<br />{{cite web |date=18 December 2007 |title=Radiohead&nbsp;— In Rainbows Is Overwhelming Critics Choice for Top Album |url=http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/story/in-rainbows-is-overwhelming-critics-choice-for-top-album_1053848 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606163227/http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/story/in-rainbows-is-overwhelming-critics-choice-for-top-album_1053848 |archive-date=6 June 2011 |access-date=3 October 2009 |publisher=Contact Music}}</ref> In a 2004 list composed by 55 musicians, writers and industry executives, ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' named Radiohead 73rd-greatest artist of all time.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Matthews |first=Dave |date=3 December 2010 |title=100 Greatest Artists |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/100-greatest-artists-147446/ |access-date=29 October 2023 |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |language=en-US}}</ref> They have been listed among the greatest bands of all time by [[Spin (magazine)|''Spin'']] (15th)<ref>{{Cite web |title=NPR : The All-Time Greatest Rock Bands |url=https://www.npr.org/programs/totn/features/2002/feb/020207.rockbands.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190511105224/https://www.npr.org/programs/totn/features/2002/feb/020207.rockbands.html |archive-date=11 May 2019 |access-date=11 May 2019 |website=www.npr.org}}</ref> and among the greatest artists by [[VH1]] (29th).<ref>{{Cite web |date=3 September 2010 |title=VH1 100 Greatest Artists Of All Time |url=https://www.stereogum.com/495331/vh1-100-greatest-artists-of-all-time/franchises/list/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150412055609/https://www.stereogum.com/495331/vh1-100-greatest-artists-of-all-time/franchises/list/ |archive-date=12 April 2015 |access-date=11 May 2019 |website=Stereogum}}</ref> They were also named the third-best British band in history by Harry Fletcher of the ''[[Evening Standard]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |date=7 November 2017 |title=The 20 greatest British rock bands of all time |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/go/london/music/the-20-greatest-british-rock-bands-of-all-time-a3655391.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190331002750/https://www.standard.co.uk/go/london/music/the-20-greatest-british-rock-bands-of-all-time-a3655391.html |archive-date=31 March 2019 |access-date=11 May 2019 |website=Evening Standard |language=en}}</ref>

Radiohead are the most nominated act for the [[Mercury Prize]], with five nominated albums. They were inducted into the [[Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]] in 2019.<ref name="Greene-2019" /> In 2009, ''Rolling Stone'' readers voted Radiohead the second-best artist of the 2000s, behind [[Green Day]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Green Day Named Top Artists Of The Decade By Rolling Stone Readers |url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1627912/green-day-named-top-artists-decade-by-rolling-stone-readers.jhtml |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928051312/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1627912/green-day-named-top-artists-decade-by-rolling-stone-readers.jhtml |archive-date=28 September 2013 |access-date=28 September 2014 |work=MTV News}}</ref> In 2021, ''Pitchfork'' readers voted ''OK Computer, Kid A'' and ''In Rainbows'' among the ten greatest albums of the preceding 25 years.<ref>{{Cite web |date=15 October 2021 |title=The 200 best albums of the last 25 years, according to ''Pitchfork'' readers |url=https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/peoples-list-25th-anniversary/ |access-date=15 October 2021 |website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]] |language=en-US}}</ref> Jonny Greenwood and O'Brien were both included in ''Rolling Stone''{{'}}s lists of the best guitarists<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Fricke |first=David |author-link=David Fricke |date=3 December 2010 |title=100 Greatest Guitarists: David Fricke's Picks |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/100-greatest-guitarists-david-frickes-picks-146383/ |access-date=25 October 2023 |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Vozick-Levinson |first=Simon |date=13 October 2023 |title=The 250 Greatest Guitarists of All Time |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-guitarists-1234814010/ |access-date=14 October 2023 |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |language=en-US}}</ref> and Yorke in its lists of the greatest singers.<ref>{{cite magazine |date=3 December 2010 |title=100 Greatest Singers of All Time |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-singers-of-all-time-19691231/thom-yorke-20101202 |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |access-date=21 February 2009}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |date=1 January 2023 |title=The 200 Greatest Singers of All Time |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-singers-all-time-1234642307/ |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |language=en-US |access-date=4 January 2023}}</ref>

== Collaborators ==

[[File:RHbear.svg|thumb|"Modified bear" logo by Yorke and [[Stanley Donwood]]|142x142px]]

[[Nigel Godrich]] first worked with Radiohead as an audio engineer on their second album, ''The Bends''. He has produced all their studio albums since their third album, ''OK Computer''.<ref name="McKinnon-2006" /> Godrich has been dubbed the band's "sixth member", an allusion to [[George Martin]] being called the "[[Fifth Beatle]]".<ref name="McKinnon-2006" /> In 2016, Godrich said: "I can only ever have one band like Radiohead who I've worked with for this many years. That's a very deep and profound relationship. The Beatles could only have ever had one George Martin; they couldn't have switched producers halfway through their career. All that work, trust, and knowledge of each other would have been thrown out of the window and they'd have to start again."<ref>{{cite web |last=Earle |first=Toby |date=6 July 2016 |title=Nigel Godrich interview: Radiohead and I have a profound relationship |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/stayingin/music/nigel-godrich-interview-radiohead-and-i-have-a-very-deep-and-profound-relationship-a3283096.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180726111030/https://www.standard.co.uk/stayingin/music/nigel-godrich-interview-radiohead-and-i-have-a-very-deep-and-profound-relationship-a3283096.html |archive-date=26 July 2018 |access-date=9 July 2016 |website=[[The Evening Standard]] |language=en-GB}}</ref>

Godrich also plays Chieftain Mews, a character who first appeared in ''[[The Most Gigantic Lying Mouth of All Time]]'' and has since appeared in Radiohead's promotional material.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Yoo |first=Noah |date=April 2021 |title=Radiohead Join TikTok, Reveal New Chieftain Mews Video |url=https://pitchfork.com/news/radiohead-join-tiktok-reveal-new-chieftain-mews-video-watch/ |access-date=2 April 2021 |website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]] |language=en-us}}</ref> The journalist Mac Randall described Mews as "a 21st-century [[Max Headroom]]" who "intones non-sequiturs".<ref name="popisdead-1" /> Yorke credited the filmmaker Chris Bran for his creation.<ref>{{cite news |date=21 November 2003 |title=Yes I am entering Miss World |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2003/nov/21/popandrock.radiohead |accessdate=19 May 2009 |newspaper=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref>

The graphic artist [[Stanley Donwood]] met Yorke when they were art students. Together, they have produced all of Radiohead's album covers and visual artwork since 1994.<ref name="EYE" /> Donwood works in the studio with the band as they record, allowing the music to influence the artwork.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://diymag.com/2016/03/22/radiohead-in-rainbows-new-album-lp9-stanley-donwood-interview |title=Inside the artwork: Radiohead art collaborator Stanley Donwood talks 'In Rainbows' and LP9 |website=DIY |date=22 March 2016 |access-date=23 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160325003555/http://diymag.com/2016/03/22/radiohead-in-rainbows-new-album-lp9-stanley-donwood-interview|archive-date=25 March 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> He and Yorke won a [[Grammy Award for Best Recording Package|Grammy]] in 2002 for the special edition of ''Amnesiac'', packaged as a library book.<ref name="EYE" />

Since Radiohead's formation, Andi Watson has been their lighting and stage director, designing the visuals of their live concerts.<ref>{{cite web |last=Fischer |first=Jonathan L. |date=14 March 2011 |title=Strobe Lights and Blown Speakers: Radiohead's Light Design |url=https://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/14/strobe-lights-and-blown-speakers |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120808080547/http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/14/strobe-lights-and-blown-speakers/ |archive-date=8 August 2012 |access-date=16 August 2012 |work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> Peter "Plank" Clements has worked with Radiohead since before ''The Bends'', overseeing the technical management of studio recordings and live performances.<ref name="guitar-world" /> Jim Warren has been Radiohead's live sound engineer since their first tour in 1992, and recorded early tracks including "[[High and Dry]]" and "[[Pop Is Dead]]".<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.mixonline.com/live-sound/tour-profile-radiohead-368110 |title=Tour Profile: Radiohead |last=Emerick |first=Donny |website=Mixonline |date=October 2008 |language=en-us|access-date=14 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191014163257/https://www.mixonline.com/live-sound/tour-profile-radiohead-368110|archive-date=14 October 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> Radiohead enlisted the drummer [[Clive Deamer]] to help perform the complex rhythms of ''The King of Limbs'' for live performances; he also joined them for the ''Moon Shaped Pool'' tour.<ref name="Selway and evolution" /><ref name="Pitchfork – Radiohead in Amsterdam" /><ref name="91x2" /> [[Paul Thomas Anderson]] has directed several music videos for Yorke and Radiohead, and has collaborated with Jonny Greenwood on several film scores and the 2015 documentary ''[[Junun (film)|Junun]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.empireonline.com/movies/news/paul-thomas-anderson-thom-yorke-tease-short-film-anima/ |title=Paul Thomas Anderson And Thom Yorke Tease Short Film Anima |last=White |first=James |date=20 June 2019 |website=Empire |language=en|access-date=21 June 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190621034921/https://www.empireonline.com/movies/news/paul-thomas-anderson-thom-yorke-tease-short-film-anima/|archive-date=21 June 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>

== Business and song catalogue ==

{{See also|In Rainbows#Dispute with EMI}}

Radiohead are managed by Chris Hufford and Bryce Edge of Courtyard Management, which also manages [[Faithless]], [[Supergrass]] and [[Kate Nash]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Collins |first=John |date=1 May 2009 |title=Working in harmony |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/business/working-in-harmony-1.757419 |access-date=16 November 2023 |newspaper=[[The Irish Times]] |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Marshall |first=Alex |date=15 April 2016 |title=Radiohead have not yet decided whether to stream new album, says man from their management firm |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/apr/15/radiohead-new-album-spotify-brian-message-thom-yorke |access-date=15 March 2025 |work=[[The Guardian]] |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> They recorded their first six albums under contract with [[Parlophone]], a subsidiary of [[EMI]].<ref>{{cite magazine |author=Tyrangiel, Josh |first= |date=1 October 2007 |title=Radiohead Says: Pay What You Want |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |url=http://content.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1666973,00.html|url-status=live|access-date=16 October 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110827171043/http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1666973,00.html|archive-date=27 August 2011}}</ref> The contract ended with the release of ''Hail to the Thief'' in 2003. They did not renew the contract for their next album, ''In Rainbows'' (2007), as EMI would not give them control over their back catalogue and they did not trust the new owner, [[Guy Hands]].<ref name="observer12" /><ref name="Rajan-2007" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=Forde |first=Eamonn |date=18 February 2019 |title=Chasing rainbows: inside the battle between Radiohead and EMI's Guy Hands |work=[[The Guardian]] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/feb/18/chasing-rainbows-radiohead-emi-guy-hands-terra-firma |url-status=live |access-date=19 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190219064558/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/feb/18/chasing-rainbows-radiohead-emi-guy-hands-terra-firma |archive-date=19 February 2019 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> Radiohead have self-released their subsequent work, with retail editions released by [[XL Recordings]].<ref name="Billboard – move from Warner" />

In September 2012, EMI was bought by [[Universal Music Group|Universal Music]]. The [[European Commission]] approved the deal on the condition that Universal Music divest Parlophone, which controlled the Radiohead records.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Sweney |first=Mark |date=21 September 2012 |title=Universal's £1.2bn EMI takeover approved – with conditions |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/sep/21/universal-emi-takeover-approved |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927140940/http://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/sep/21/universal-emi-takeover-approved |archive-date=27 September 2013 |access-date=2 September 2016 |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> In February 2013, Parlophone was bought by [[Warner Music Group]] (WMG).<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Knopper |first=Steve |date=8 February 2013 |title=Pink Floyd, Radiohead catalogs change label hands |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/pink-floyd-radiohead-catalogs-change-label-hands-92432/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181116084628/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/pink-floyd-radiohead-catalogs-change-label-hands-92432/|archive-date=16 November 2018 |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]}}</ref> As a condition of the purchase, WMG made an agreement with the [[Merlin Network]] and the trade group [[Independent Music Companies Association|Impala]] to divest 30% of the Parlophone catalogues to [[Independent record label|independent labels]], with artist approval.<ref name="Billboard – move from Warner" /> In April 2016, WMG transferred Radiohead's back catalogue to XL.<ref name="Billboard – move from Warner" /> ''[[Radiohead: The Best Of|The Best Of]]'' and the reissues released by EMI in 2008 without Radiohead's approval were removed from streaming services.<ref name="Billboard – move from Warner" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Trendell |first=Andrew |title=Here's why so many Radiohead songs disappeared from Spotify + streaming |url=http://www.gigwise.com/news/106313/radiohead-songs-&-albums-removed-from-spotify-ahead-of-new-album-tour|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170920142613/http://www.gigwise.com/news/106313/radiohead-songs-%26-albums-removed-from-spotify-ahead-of-new-album-tour|archive-date=20 September 2017|access-date=20 September 2017 |website=[[Gigwise]] |language=en}}</ref> In October 2015, Radiohead sued Parlophone for deductions made from downloads of their back catalogue.<ref>{{cite web |title=Radiohead sue Parlophone, lawyers debate possible impact |url=http://www.completemusicupdate.com/article/radiohead-sue-parlophone-lawyers-debate-possible-impact/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151101010830/http://www.completemusicupdate.com/article/radiohead-sue-parlophone-lawyers-debate-possible-impact/ |archive-date=1 November 2015 |access-date=4 November 2015 |website=[[Complete Music Update]]}}</ref>

In 1993, Radiohead created a [[limited company]], Radiohead Ltd, to handle income from tours. It had a [[revenue]] of £735,765 after the release of ''The Bends'' (1995), £2.1m after ''OK Computer'' (1997) and almost £8m following ''Hail to the Thief'' (2003).<ref name="Marshall-2016">{{Cite news |last=Marshall |first=Alex |date=29 April 2016 |title=Radiohead's corporate empire: inside the band's dollars and cents |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/apr/29/radiohead-corporate-structure-firms |access-date=15 March 2025 |work=[[The Guardian]] |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> In May 1996, Radiohead established Waste Products Ltd to produce and sell merchandise.<ref name="Marshall-2016" /> The band members also own half of Sandbag Limited, created in 2002 as a sister company of Waste, which handles direct-to-customer sales of albums, merchandise and other goods for Radiohead and other acts.<ref name="Shubber-2016">{{Cite news |last=Shubber |first=Kadhim |date=12 January 2016 |title=Radiohead's business style: everything in its right place |url=https://www.ft.com/content/1258fc73-b961-3a67-adbd-b8b7d73e68e7 |access-date=15 March 2025 |work=[[Financial Times]]}}</ref> Starting with ''In Rainbows'', Radiohead have created limited companies or [[limited liability partnership]]s for their releases, minimising risk in the event of commercial failure, lawsuits or touring accidents.<ref name="Shubber-2016" /><ref name="Marshall-2016" />

== Band members ==

* [[Thom Yorke]] – vocals, guitar, piano, keyboards

* [[Colin Greenwood]] – bass guitar

* [[Ed O'Brien]] – guitar, effects, backing vocals

* [[Philip Selway]] – drums, percussion

* [[Jonny Greenwood]] – guitar, keyboards, ondes Martenot, orchestral arrangements

=== Additional live members ===

* [[Clive Deamer]] – drums, percussion (2011–present)

== Discography ==

{{Main|Radiohead discography|List of songs recorded by Radiohead}}

'''Studio albums'''

* ''[[Pablo Honey]]'' (1993)

* ''[[The Bends (album)|The Bends]]'' (1995)

* ''[[OK Computer]]'' (1997)

* ''[[Kid A]]'' (2000)

* ''[[Amnesiac (album)|Amnesiac]]'' (2001)

* ''[[Hail to the Thief]]'' (2003)

* ''[[In Rainbows]]'' (2007)

* ''[[The King of Limbs]]'' (2011)

* ''[[A Moon Shaped Pool]]'' (2016)

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== See also ==

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* ''[[The Music and Art of Radiohead]]'' (2005 book)

* [[List of Old Abingdonians]]

== Notes ==

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== References ==

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=== Sources ===

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* {{citation |last=Buckley |first=Peter |title=The Rough Guide to Rock |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=haEfq-nKqjgC |publisher=Rough Guides |year=2003 |isbn=1-84353-105-4}}

* Clarke, Martin. ''Radiohead: Hysterical and Useless''. 2000. {{ISBN|0-85965-332-3}}

* {{citation |last=Griffiths |first=Dai |title=OK Computer |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QuZF1PP0AKkC |publisher=Continuum International Publishing Group |year=2004 |isbn=0-8264-1663-2}}

* Randall, Mac. ''Exit Music: The Radiohead Story''. 2000. {{ISBN|0-385-33393-5}}

* {{citation |last=Reising |first=Russell |title=Speak to Me |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x_0oXORl4dIC |publisher=Ashgate Publishing, Ltd |year=2005 |isbn=0-7546-4019-1}}

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== Further reading ==

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* Doheny, James. ''Radiohead: Back to Save the Universe''. 2002. {{ISBN|0-8264-1663-2}}

* Forbes, Brandon W. and Reisch, George A. (eds). ''Radiohead and Philosophy: Fitter Happier More Deductive''. 2009. {{ISBN|0-8126-9664-6}}

* Hale, Jonathan. ''Radiohead: From a Great Height''. 1999. {{ISBN|1-55022-373-9}}

* Johnstone, Nick. ''Radiohead: An Illustrated Biography''. 1997. {{ISBN|0-7119-6581-1}}

* Letts, Marianne Tatom. ''Radiohead and the Resistant Concept Album''. 2010. {{ISBN|978-0-253-22272-5}}

* Paytress, Mark. ''Radiohead: The Complete Guide to their Music''. 2005. {{ISBN|1-84449-507-8}}

* Tate, Joseph (ed). ''The Music and Art of Radiohead''. 2005. {{ISBN|0-7546-3979-7}}.

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