December 2016 · radio
Colin Greenwood on BBC Radio 4
On tour he and his brother trawl the record shops of America and Europe, and his favourite find is probably Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac.
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6 October 2016 · podcast
Stanley Donwood
Stanley Donwood wrote his detective novel in a month for a five-pound bet, and treated it like piecework on a farm.
2 October 2016 · radio
Phil Selway on BBC 6 Music
Swervedriver, near the end of his list, first crossed his path in Oxford, back when they were still called Shake Appeal.
October 2016 · radio
Ed O'Brien on BBC 6 Music
His first single was Ally's Tartan Army, Scotland's 1978 World Cup song, and he still knows some of the words.
23 September 2016 · radio
Ed O'Brien on Virgin Radio
Ed O'Brien's Spotify playlist that morning runs from Public Image Ltd to, say, Glen Campbell's “Gentle on My Mind” or “Southern Nights”.
8 September 2016 · radio
Thom Yorke on BBC Radio 1
Thom Yorke co-presents Benji B's Radio 1 show, opening with Burial's “Truant” and talking Atoms for Peace and Nigel Godrich.
August 2016 · radio
Jonny Greenwood on NPR
Jonny Greenwood played the recorder in groups until he was 18, and slipped it on to the song “The Bends”, low in the choruses.
17 July 2016 · radio
Phil Selway on BBC 6 Music
He tells the story of Oumou Sangaré launching her own car, suspects Wikipedia is having him on, and goes with it anyway.
1 June 2016 · video
Jonny Greenwood on Adam Buxton
Blues harmonica for his brother Colin's school band got Jonny Greenwood into Radiohead; he later got it onto Pavement's Terror Twilight.
June 2016 · podcast
Ed O'Brien on Ninja Tune podcast
Radiohead's lawyer asked Prince for “Girls & Boys” at an aftershow at the O2, and Prince went on stage and played it for the lawyer.
June 2016 · radio
Jonny Greenwood on BBC 6 Music
Radiohead rehearsed 120 songs for the 2016 tour, every one they had, before cutting the list to about 60 or 70.
April 2016 · radio
Ed O'Brien on BBC Radio 4
A band tied to a six-album contract feels at times that it has the shackles on, O'Brien says, and the music shows it.
28 February 2016 · radio
Phil Selway on BBC 6 Music
Mos Def has just announced his retirement from music and film at 42, which Philip Selway calls nice work if you can get it.
2016 · video
Ed O'Brien on Economist
O'Brien remembers Music Week putting a penny on its cover when In Rainbows let buyers name their own price.
2016 · video
John Leckie
Paul McCartney or Kate Bush could sing into any microphone, John Leckie says, because the voice is what matters.