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"He really didn’t like it the first time we played it, so he tried spoiling it." The story behind the song that made, and nearly broke up, Radiohead

It's fair to say that Radiohead have a complicated relationship with their debut single

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“We’ve got these little satellites”: Thom Yorke will release another solo album “later in the year”, says Ed O'Brien, suggests Radiohead is “the mothership”

And says they can all “co-exist”

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Cool new prog you must hear from Crown Lands, Tarja, Ed O'Brien and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week

Great new prog you must hear from Ebony Buckle, Grice, Amulets and more in all new Tracks Of The Week

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“My therapy was literally locking myself in a room for three hours in the morning”: Radiohead's Ed O'Brien on using guitar playing as therapy in the midst of depression

Following decades of intense, non-stop touring, O'Brien was forced to face past traumas, and found a new way to cope through guitar playing, and unknowingly crafting a new solo record

Guitar World

“We do not ever want it to be like we’re going through the motions or we’re having to run on empty. We’re going to do 20 shows each year. No more, no less”: Radiohead suggest they’ll play short-term residencies in other continents

But not until 2027, says Ed O’Brien

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Radiohead guitarist Ed O'Brien announces second solo album, Blue Morpho, will be released in May

Radiohead's Ed O'Brien shares a visualiser for the title track of his new album Blue Morpho as he puts his full name to a solo album for the first time

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Radiohead guitarist Ed O'Brien reveals the band's future touring plans

Ed O’Brien says Radiohead are planning a slow‑build return to touring from 2027, with a new continent‑by‑continent schedule designed to protect the band’s energy.

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Behringer clones the Lovetone Ring Stinger, a cult classic ring mod/fuzz pedal heard on Radiohead's Kid A

Spice up your tone with Behringer's take on this boutique '90s gem

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“I don’t want to talk about it anymore, if that’s all right. I feel like the dust hasn’t settled”: The devastating personal pain behind one of Radiohead’s most affecting songs

The melancholy masterpiece was a highlight of the group’s last album to date, and was accompanied by a surreal Paul Thomas Anderson-directed video

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“Within an hour, he got back to me going, ‘This is amazing. I’d love to come and play it.’ A week later he was in my house”: How Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien got hooked on one of the world’s most unconventional guitars

The Circle Guitar is an electro-mechanical guitar that’s been praised by the likes of the Radiohead guitarist, Phish’s Mike Gordon, and Muse’s Matt Bellamy

Guitar World

“I don’t want to talk about it anymore, if that’s all right. I feel like the dust hasn’t settled”: The devastating personal pain behind one of Radiohead’s most affecting songs

The melancholy masterpiece was a highlight of the group’s last album to date, and was accompanied by a surreal Paul Thomas Anderson-directed video

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Radiohead at the O2: 'Their most gleeful, hit-packed set in memory'

5/5 Radiohead played the first night of their London residency at the O2 with ecstatic results

Evening Standard

“At one stage it sounded like Guns N’ Roses’ November Rain. It was so pompous and bombastic – just the worst”: It was a “nightmare” to record and reduced Thom Yorke to tears – but this difficult Radiohead song went on to be a viral smash

Inspired by seeing Jeff Buckley in concert, Thom Yorke wrote this stunning power ballad of sorts while under pressure to produce a follow-up to the band's breakthrough hit, Creep. In the end, it was a huge mixing mistake that helped make it a classic, and a hit – 30 years…

Guitar World

“I fought tooth and nail for it not to be on the record, but Ed was, like, ‘If it’s not, I’m leaving’”: Radiohead on the resurgent OK Computer track that almost split the band

Guitarist Ed O’Brien admits that he was "astonished" when the song went viral earlier this year

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“I fought tooth and nail for it not to be on the record, but Ed was like, ’If it’s not, I’m leaving’”: Thom Yorke reflects on the viral Radiohead smash that nearly broke up the band

The song has been doing the rounds on social media ahead of Radiohead’s upcoming reunion tour – but it almost didn’t see the light of day

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'The wheels came off': Radiohead explain hiatus

Radiohead "had to stop" performing together because "the wheels came off" after their last tour in 2018.

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From problem child to golden child: The story behind every song on Radiohead’s Kid A

A deep dive into the Oxford quintet's game-changing fourth album as it turns 25

Guitar World

“Every time I picked up a guitar I got the horrors”: Radiohead were the world's most talked-about guitar band. Then they burned the rulebook, and made the instrument sound like no-one else had before

Released 25 years ago, Kid A subverted all of the lofty expectations that had been placed on the band, and cemented their status as one of popular music's leading creative lights

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“Sometimes the nicest thing to do with a guitar is just look at it”: How Radiohead’s debut changed the way they thought about recording guitars – and set them up for two landmark albums

The game-changing band has just announced its first tour in seven years, alongside the release of a live album

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It’s been seven years since the last Radiohead tour – here’s what each member has been up to since

Their band might have been inactive since 2018, but Thom Yorke, Ed O'Brien, Philip Selway and Greenwoods Colin and Jonny definitely haven't...

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Radiohead returns after 7 years, announce 20 new live dates

Move over, Oasis

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Radiohead announce first tour dates since 2018 – and face boycott from pro-Palestine campaigners

Activists have asked fans to spurn the gigs until the band ‘convincingly distances itself’ from guitarist Jonny Greenwood performing in Tel Aviv during the Gaza war

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“He really didn’t like it the first time we played it”: The controversial Radiohead hit that launched two lawsuits and ended up being performed by Prince

"It was written during “a pretty strange period in my life” said Thom Yorke

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“This one was really hard, we had massive arguments”: Radiohead on the making of Hail To The Thief, the record that got away from them

The story of the art-rock trailblazers misfiring sixth album, one that even the band themselves confess is "a lower part of the curve".

Guitar World

“It’s a preamp, but it’s got the biggest distortion I’ve ever heard”: Fontaines D.C.'s Carlos O'Connell reveals the secret weapon on his pedalboard – a plain box with one knob and oodles of gain

Owning one doesn’t come cheap, but the left-field pedal has been at the center of the band’s monumental rise to fame

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