December 1997 · video
Radiohead
For MTV's Live from the 10 Spot, Radiohead had to hand in their set list three weeks early, and they blame MTV.
the interview desk
1997
25 August 1997 · radio
Ed O'Brien and Colin Greenwood on NPR
The American music industry spends much of its time second-guessing what the public want, one of the band says, and hasn't a clue.
21 August 1997 · TV
Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood on MusiquePlus
Is “Karma Police” two songs? No, yes, no, they say: you get bored with one idea and move on before the song has finished.
17 August 1997 · video
Thom Yorke on Launch
“The Tourist” went last on OK Computer as a note from Thom Yorke to himself to slow down.
13 August 1997 · video
Ed O'Brien on Pittsburgh
The Dutch speak very good English, O'Brien has noticed, but it comes out like Starsky and Hutch.
August 1997 · TV
Radiohead on MusiquePlus
Most of OK Computer happened by accident, they say, when they set out to do one thing and found something else was what they wanted.
31 July 1997 · TV
Thom Yorke and Colin Greenwood on MuchMusic
Two days before this interview Thom Yorke recorded with DJ Shadow at Skywalker Ranch, for the band's Oxford friend James Lavelle's UNKLE.
20 June 1997 · radio
Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood on RTÉ 2fm
Meeting Bernard Butler was one of the main reasons one of them wanted to do the Velvet Goldmine covers of early Roxy Music.
18 June 1997 · video
Radiohead on Chop 'Em Out
A percussion group came in for the start of “Paranoid Android”, and one of its players was sacked for being too drunk to play.
15 June 1997 · TV
Radiohead on MTV 120 Minutes
The plan for a video for every song on OK Computer came halfway through the recording, from Dilly Gent, who commissions their videos.
9 June 1997 · radio
Thom Yorke on KCRW
Yorke borrows the Conservatives' election jibe at Labour for his band's new album: New Radiohead, new danger.
7 June 1997 · TV
Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood on MuchMusic
Thom Yorke or Jonny Greenwood hopes Labour's ban on exporting cattle prods and other instruments of torture starts a lot of good things.
3 June 1997 · TV
Radiohead on MuchMusic
The “Paranoid Android” video works, Thom Yorke says, because its hero climbs a lamp post and carries on while a man below swings an axe.
June 1997 · video
Colin Greenwood on Baktabak CD
Jonny used John Lennon's Hammond on “Fake Plastic Trees” at Abbey Road, where they say a box room still smells of the Beatles' reefer.
8 May 1997 · radio
Jonny Greenwood on RTÉ 2fm
Pablo Honey was never huge in America, Jonny says; “Creep” was, and they spent their time there travelling round playing it.
May 1997 · radio
Radiohead on BBC Radio 1
Colin backs his brother's answer about the American novelist of his own dissertation, which lifts Jonny to four and into the tie-break.
May 1997 · radio
Radiohead on BBC Radio 1
The first take of “No Surprises”, cut while Euro 96 was on, outlasted four or five reels of retakes made that October.
May 1997 · TV
Radiohead on MTV News
Carrying on in the manner of The Bends would have been great for the accountants, but as usual they screwed it up.
April 1997 · TV
Radiohead on MTV Japan
Peter Buck of R.E.M. once quizzed them over dinner about These Animal Men, an English punk band he owned a record by.
April 1997 · TV
Radiohead on MusicFactory
Two weeks in Japan next January will be the longest tour they have played there.
April 1997 · video
Radiohead on Soundclash
The first thing Radiohead ask any video director is whether the band have to be in it.
April 1997 · TV
Radiohead on MTV
In Radiohead chat rooms nobody believed it was really them, and they failed a quiz on the colour of Jonny Greenwood's T-shirt in Canada.
18 February 1997 · radio
Ed O'Brien and Colin Greenwood on Oxygen FM
Ed O'Brien remembers and Colin Greenwood forgets their two picks for the show: Cameo's “Word Up” and Eric B. & Rakim's “Paid in Full”.
1997 · video
Colin Greenwood on Time Traveler
Colin Greenwood says the Hammond Jonny played on “Fake Plastic Trees” is the same one John Lennon played at Abbey Road.
1997 · TV
Radiohead on MTV Superock
Nine crew had been in the Wiltern since eight in the morning, Radiohead point out, while the band moseyed in at half past three.
1997 · video
Radiohead
Phil Selway's fan club, 20 strong, began with a girl in Japan who was supposed to be at a Phil Collins concert next door.
1997 · TV
Radiohead on The Ozone, BBC Two
The Ozone's reporter keeps telling Radiohead to lighten up and do something nice for the kids, a Peter Andre song perhaps.
1997 · video
Thom Yorke on Time Traveler
In the studio Thom Yorke read fans' transcriptions of bootleg lyrics online while he was still writing the words.
1997 · TV
Radiohead on MTV
Recording used to be a chore until halfway through The Bends; now the studio excites them as much as the stage.