1- Radiohead were originally called On A Friday.
2- The lead vocal take of ‘Fake Plastic Trees’ was recorded immediately after the band had seen Jeff Buckley playing upstairs at The Garage in London.
3- Lots of people believe the physicist Stephen Hawking was the voice of ‘Fitter Happier’ on ‘OK Computer
4- Thom Yorke’s younger brother Andy fronted the band The Unbelievable Truth in the late ’90s.
5- True Love Waits is a song by Radiohead that is probably the most revisited song in their history
6- Radiohead released the song Just in 1995, a song that was apparently a competition between Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood, to see who between the two would fit the most chords in a song. This “competition” led to the development of a masterpiece that ranked number 34 out of the 50 Greatest Indie Anthems Ever, according to NME in 2007.
7- The entirety of the vocals for “Planet Telex” was recorded while lying on the floor, as lead singer Thom Yorke was excessively inebriated on wine at the time.
8- While writing ‘Exit Music (For A Film)’, Thom Yorke knew it would be used on the Romeo And Juliet soundtrack, and initially attempted to write the lyrics using lines from Shakespeare’s play. It didn’t work out.
9- The band was originally called On A Friday, named so for the day they would meet for practice while in school together. The name Radiohead came from the Talking Heads song “Radio Head”
10- One of the biggest musical influences on Thom while Radiohead were recording ‘The Bends’ was John Lennon’s side project The Plastic Ono Band.
11- Used the first “Active Buddy” computer program to promote their album Amnesiac. Called “Googly Minotaur,” it was programed to chat with fans and answer questions about Radiohead. The program is an extension of the AOL Instant Messaging system.
12- Jonny Greenwood and Phil Selway were both members of the band that plays at the yule ball in the Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire movie
13- Thom Yorke’s dad was was an amateur boxer, and encouraged his son to take up the hobby – without much success.
14- Jonny Greenwood is famous for playing a Fender Telecaster
15- The noises you hear at the beginning of “The Bends”, are in reality a bunch of rowdy teenagers who were practicing with different instruments outside the hotel in which the album was recorded. When he heard the racket, Thom Yorke reportedly ran downstairs to record them
16- No one has ever been told by the band what the lone man tells the rest of the crowd in the video ‘Just’ that forces them all to lie down on the floor hopelessly next to him.
17- Thom’s very first words to drummer Phil Selway at their inaugural rehearsal were “Can’t you play any fucking faster?”
18- Thom Yorke reportedly hates the sound of his own voice. He claims that he finds his voice annoying because it is “too polite” for the genre of music that he sings.
19- Radiohead once covered Oasis’ ‘Wonderwall’ during a US radio session
20- The song Creep is about a girl who rejected Thom Yorke, a girl he had developed feelings for from a distance, a girl that he followed for a while during the time he was studying at Exeter University. After the girl rejected Thom, his band members claim that the ordeal really shook him up and infuriated him, leading him to compose the song Creep.
21- The phrase ‘King Of Limbs’ relates to an ancient oak tree in Wiltshire’s Savernake Forest, near where Radiohead recorded part of ‘In Rainbows’
22- The only reason Thom he started the band with Colin was because of their shared weird taste in outfits when they were younger.
23- Selway is nicknamed “Mad Dog” because of his good manners. It’s kind of like when a fat guy is nicknamed “Slim.”
24- Thom Yorke recorded the vocals to ‘Fake Plastic Trees’ in late 1994 just after seeing Jeff Buckley play the Garage in London
25- Ed O’Brien is the tallest member of Radiohead at 6ft 2in sources
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