Radiohead

A short American television piece from 1995 follows the band round a corner drugstore that has been there 35 years, with Jesus on souvenir plates and Doris Day on the wall. Asked when he would rather have been born, one of them picks the 60s, when you could take acid and sleep with anybody, which you can't do any more.

One song, one of them says, was one of their best until the new album came out, and playing it over and over now feels like playing a Sinatra song instead of a Radiohead one. The Bends, he says, is about being uprooted, with no connection to home, his own life or the people they play to, like a mothership drifting round the stratosphere, and then coming through that and celebrating it.

The idea that everything has been done is something the media keeps saying, he thinks, a neurosis that has a band list its influences so everyone can place it. He calls that rubbish.