13 December 1995 · TV
Thom Yorke on MusiquePlus
Thom Yorke puts Jonny Greenwood's obsession with Miles Davis down to Davis's punk attitude to his art.
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12 December 1995 · TV
Radiohead on MuchMusic
Phil Selway's fan club in Japan, the band say, is the Pig Club: 14 members, all cousins, with laminated cards numbered from 1,000.
31 October 1995 · TV
Radiohead on Scottish TV
Help, the War Child album, looked to Radiohead like a slightly more ego-free version of some band charity projects.
28 October 1995 · radio
Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood on XFM
Radiohead have brought Sparklehorse over to open at Brixton Academy next Saturday, after a friend played them the tape on R.E.M.'s tour of Israel.
15 September 1995 · radio
Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood on KRBE
Talk of a new British invasion puts Thom Yorke or Jonny Greenwood in mind of Vikings with wooden swords, landing on the East Coast.
August 1995 · radio
Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood on Galei Tzahal
Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood's new song is called “Subterranean Homesick Alien”, they explain, as in the Dylan song, but not.
30 July 1995 · radio
Thom Yorke and Ed O'Brien on BBC Radio 1
Ed O'Brien saw R.E.M. support U2 on a soaking day ten years before, and remembers the wet crowd dancing to “Can't Get There From Here”.
24 July 1995 · radio
Thom Yorke on BBC Radio 1
Yorke has to consult his bits of paper to confirm what Radio 1 already knows, that Radiohead play Glasgow Barrowland on 31 October.
3 June 1995 · radio
Thom Yorke on BBC Radio 1
Radiohead's agent rang in tears with the news that they are the only support on R.E.M.'s smallest shows, in Berlin, Sicily and Israel.
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30 May 1995 · radio
Ed O'Brien on BBC Radio 1
The tour bus is called Wave Dancer, with a horse riding the waves painted on the back and bunks like coffins.
May 1995 · video
Radiohead
Playing live came first for Radiohead, the one chance in the day to forget everything, and one of them thinks they still do that.
10 April 1995 · TV
Radiohead on MTV 120 Minutes
“Bulletproof” goes back to a limo driver's warning the first time Radiohead landed in Los Angeles.
4 April 1995 · radio
Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood on KCRW
About ten people at every show left straight after “Creep”, and told whoever stopped them at the door they did that to every band.
April 1995 · video
Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood on Bubblepop
Sapporo and Fukuoka are among the Japanese cities Radiohead have never played that they will visit when they return in June.
30 March 1995 · TV
Radiohead on The Ozone, BBC Two
One of the band calls “Creep” the blessing and the bane, because a big hit on a first album usually means a band goes nowhere.
March 1995 · radio
Radiohead on BBC Radio 1
Radiohead turned down a song for the soundtrack of The Jerky Boys film, which they say became a hit in America.
March 1995 · radio
Thom Yorke and Colin Greenwood on CISM
Radiohead's first day at Abbey Road went on spotting the cupboard the Beatles smoked dope in, until the novelty wore off.
1995 · podcast
Colin Greenwood on Pictures of Lily
Radiohead had played seven gigs in Mexico, and Colin has been told the only other band to do that was Marillion.
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1995 · TV
Ed O'Brien and Thom Yorke on MTV
“Bulletproof” came from Radiohead's first ride in a Los Angeles limo, when the driver mentioned that people sometimes get shot at junctions.
1995 · video
Radiohead
Thom Yorke had “The Bends” on a four-track in his cottage while they were making Pablo Honey, and wrote it taking the piss.
1995 · video
Radiohead on Bubblepop
Asked how the lyrics get written, one of them says drunk, and is then asked if he likes a drink.
1995 · video
Radiohead
Asked at Chicago airport what he was doing with this paddle, one of them replied “How dare you sir, this is a cricket bat.”
1995 · video
Radiohead
Playing one song over and over, one of them says, feels like playing a Sinatra song instead of a Radiohead one.
1995 · video
Radiohead
John Leckie, one of them says, was a long-lost uncle who stopped the studio feeling like a science lab.
1995 · TV
Radiohead on MusiquePlus
Bitches Brew left Thom Yorke cold until he played it again, very stoned, in an airport.
1995 · video
Radiohead
Thom Yorke's way of coping with all the attention is to shut his eyes, which he has done through a 90-minute show.
1995 · TV
Radiohead on MuchMusic Spotlight
Radio 1 dropped “Creep” after three plays as too down for the British public; Thom Yorke says it sold about 20,000 copies anyway.
1995 · TV
Thom Yorke and Ed O'Brien on MTV
Jake Scott rang Thom Yorke one night with an idea about a supermarket, and they spent the next hour and a half faxing each other.
1995 · TV
Thom Yorke on MusiquePlus
“Begin the Begin” got Thom Yorke, a new romantic at school, back into electric guitars, which Peter Buck found very funny.