4 December 1998 · video
Thom Yorke on ITN Interview
Thom Yorke feels lucky to write exactly what he likes, knowing people elsewhere are shot or tortured for doing the same.
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1998
12 April 1998 · video
Phil Selway and Thom Yorke
When Q's readers voted OK Computer the best album ever made, Ed O'Brien went home, put on Revolver and walked round the house saying “number two”.
12 April 1998 · TV
Thom Yorke and Phil Selway on MuchMusic
The “No Surprises” video took two days of rehearsal with stunt people, and Thom Yorke calls it the most terrifying thing he has ever done.
8 April 1998 · video
Colin Greenwood on CJAY 92
Some of OK Computer's lyrical ideas came off the internet, Colin Greenwood says, from computers set up behind the mixing desk.
2 February 1998 · radio
Thom Yorke on Triple J
Magnus Carlsson made the “Paranoid Android” video by playing the song on repeat all day, writing down what he saw and faxing it over.
29 January 1998 · radio
Jonny Greenwood on Radio New Zealand
Jonny Greenwood says the brace on his guitar arm comes from clumsy technique, not from hitting the strings hard.
6 January 1998 · radio
Ed O'Brien and Phil Selway on BBC Radio 1
Phil Selway's fan club has folded; by the end it had two members, and he says both were his own pseudonyms.
6 January 1998 · radio
Ed O'Brien and Phil Selway on XFM
Carly Simon's “Nobody Does It Better” was learnt in two days for MTV, and by their count they have murdered it most times since.
1998 · video
Thom Yorke on MTV
Thom Yorke's only idea for the “Paranoid Android” video was a channel-flicking scene from Being There that lands on something like Sesame Street.