Thom Yorke on France Inter

At nine, at a school disco, Thom Yorke heard a Moody Blues record and was completely undone by it; he describes it as listening to ghosts. Years later he read that the group had been among the first to use a newly installed reverb plate at Abbey Road, which explained the sound. He admits to having played it five times that morning.

Speaking to Augustin Trapenard, partly through an interpreter, he goes from there to his theory of recording. A session is not about whether the notes are in the right place or the performance is technically good, but whether it takes the listener somewhere else, and his images for it are making a hole in a wall and getting through to the other side.

Having turned 50 the week before, he realises he has spent more than half his life trying to transport himself in that way.

Berlin in 1977, where the film is set, works for him as a mirror rather than a period. He grew up under Thatcher, remembers friends going to celebrate at the Wall, and remembers what that generation believed was possible about changing things.