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OK Computer is the third studio album by the English rock band Radiohead, released on 21 May 1997. With their producer, Nigel Godrich , Radiohead recorded most of OK Computer in their rehearsal space in Oxfordshire and the historic mansion of St Catherine's Court in Bath in 1996 and early 1997.
Radiohead were formed at Abingdon School in Oxfordshire in 1985 and are best known for the albums Ok Computer, Pablo Honey and In Rainbows, as well as singles such as Creep, Paranoid Android and ...
Radiohead released their ninth album, A Moon Shaped Pool, in May 2016, [9] backed by the singles "Burn the Witch" [10] and "Daydreaming". [9] In June 2017, Radiohead released a 20th-anniversary OK Computer reissue, OK Computer OKNOTOK 1997 2017, including unreleased tracks, [11] two of which were released as download singles: "I Promise" and ...
The album title, a term for decompression sickness, references Radiohead's rapid rise to fame with "Creep"; Yorke said "we just came up too fast". [57] John Leckie , who produced The Bends , recalled that EMI hoped for a single "even better" than "Creep" but that Radiohead "didn't even know what was good about it in the first place". [ 58 ]
In 2009, Radiohead released two non-album singles: "Harry Patch (In Memory Of)", a tribute to the last surviving World War I soldier Harry Patch, [21] and "These Are My Twisted Words", a free download. [22] Radiohead's eighth album, The King of Limbs (2011), emphasises the rhythm section with extensive samples and loops.
It was released in June 2017, the album's 20th anniversary, following the 2016 acquisition of Radiohead's back catalogue by XL Recordings from EMI. OKNOTOK comprises remastered versions of OK Computer and its B-sides, plus three previously unreleased songs: "I Promise", "Man of War" and "Lift". The special edition includes an art book, notes ...
Oxfordshire teenagers Colin and Jonny Greenwood, Ed O’Brien, Philip Selway, and Thom Yorke called themselves On a Friday when they first formed a band in 1985. Signing to EMI in the early ‘90s ...
With Radiohead's fourth album, Kid A (2000), Yorke moved into electronic music, influenced by Warp acts such as Aphex Twin. For most of his career, he has worked with the producer Nigel Godrich and the cover artist Stanley Donwood. Yorke's solo work comprises mainly electronic music. His debut solo album, The Eraser, was released in 2006.