Radiohead on Danmarks Radio

Backstage at the Roskilde Festival, told that the venue used to be a horse stable, Thom Yorke counters with a pigsty he once played, with the pig still in it. Jonny Greenwood is beside him.

Yorke traces the band's name to a character in The Fisher King rather than anything grander, then concedes it could equally be a soap powder.

“Black Star” turns out to have two unrelated sources, a book by Stephen Hawking and the mark recorded against a sumo wrestler who commits a foul. Asked how those connect, he offers large bodies in motion, which is either an excellent answer or a very quick one.

Asked where the songs come from, he says drugs, then says John Lennon visits him in dreams and dictates them, then offers the interviewer the publishing.

Under the jokes, they had played about 150 shows the previous year, expected about the same again, had been recording, and had gone back out on the road because the studio had become boring.