Thom Yorke on BBC 6 Music

Thom Yorke goes back to the start for Matt Everitt's The First Time With on 6 Music, as the station marks 20 years of OK Computer. The first song he remembers is Mungo Jerry's “In the Summertime”, and the family Volvo before the one with the hi-fi had an eight-track of Scottish dance tunes. The first music that was his own was Queen's Greatest Hits on cassette, played until it wore out. His favourite Oxford gig was Siouxsie and the Banshees at the Apollo, Siouxsie on crutches with a broken leg, holding the room with nothing but her state of mind.

He signed up Colin Greenwood on a recruitment drive of his own, after hearing he had joined a band Yorke had left, where the bass lead was so short he was stuck in one spot. One of his favourite early memories is a four-track demo made at Phil Selway's house round the corner from school, a tape he still can't find.

They could never play “No Surprises” slowly enough, so they slowed down an earlier version, and the vocal he kept was sung in a tin shed on a farm, looking out at a power station. His notebooks from the time turned up for the reissue, with 30 or 40 versions of the “Paranoid Android” words written out on the bus, which he likens to a meditation. Burnt out, he didn't want to play Glastonbury in 1997, and partway through the set he went over to Ed O'Brien and told him he was off.

After OK Computer, “every time I picked up a microphone a monologue would start in my head”, and it took most of 1999 and 2000, and learning to surf, to shake it off. “I decided I needed to enjoy my work before it killed me,” he says. He is now scoring Luca Guadagnino's Suspiria without being able to read music, so he is building it all himself, and watching Blade Runner twice in a weekend gave him heart, because Vangelis made that score with his own hands.