1993

Nine days before “Anyone Can Play Guitar” is in the shops, Melody Maker gives the band a rave live review and makes the single its pick of the week.

Radiohead's first time on television puts “Creep” beside “Anyone Can Play Guitar”, the new single in the shops on 1 February.

Fans on the list get the whole winter run in one post, from a club in Canterbury in late January to a Welsh university in March, with a night at home in Oxford.

In Oxford's free music monthly, Radiohead answer the objections to their EMI deal by saying they write pop songs.

With “Anyone Can Play Guitar” in the shops, Yorke explains why he still thinks joining a band is the best thing a person can do.

NME's verdict on the debut hears a band that has not arrived yet but is plainly on its way.

Radiohead's first album is out today, with a Black Session in Paris tomorrow and seven dates on the postcard after it.

Three weeks after Pablo Honey came out, Radiohead were the middle band on a London bill topped by Tanya Donelly's new group.

Colin Greenwood remembers On a Friday's saxophone years in an interview for a UK fanzine, done on the band's last tour.

The label's spring biography also gives its version of how “Creep” was caught on tape without the band knowing.

Pippa Lang gives Pablo Honey a warm notice in the heavy metal monthly and tells its readers to follow the band.

After two thin nights, the last of the band's Tel Aviv shows draws a crowd that sings along all night and calls them back three times.

Two months after Britain got it, Radiohead's first album reaches American shops, and alternative radio there has already taken up its single.

The new single due in May is not on Pablo Honey, and a tour with Strangelove goes with it.

Andrew Collins's profile finds Yorke openly hungry for fame and already dreading what the weekly music papers say about him.

Yorke defends Radiohead's choice of a major label and explains the thinking behind “Pop Is Dead”, the single that comes out next week.

The new single is a song that is not on Pablo Honey, backed with a radio session track and two songs taped live in London in March.

On his second day of American press for Pablo Honey, Yorke is uneasy with the attention and frank about the record's faults.

Just over two weeks on the road took Pablo Honey round Britain, to a Dutch festival and across the Irish Sea, with a new single out halfway through.

On the day Radiohead's Dutch club tour opens, Yorke also calls the music industry the most ridiculous business there is.

The first night in America is a packed club and a warmer welcome than the band had been expecting.

Two songs on Radiohead's first album, O'Brien says, are about standing up for your rights and refusing to be made less than human.

Written by the band themselves, the June issue looks back on lukewarm reviews and packed shows, and ahead to 18 cities in North America.

A magazine run by fans gathers the news, the chart placings and reprinted cuttings in one place.

Twelve days into their first North American headline tour, Radiohead get two songs on MTV's summer show from Long Island.

A revolving stage seemed to throw them at first, before they found their footing in the songs from Pablo Honey and Thom Yorke filled it.

Barely two weeks into their first American tour, the band were the support act at a Southeast Portland rock club.

The bassist hears a quieter band inside the pedal noise of Pablo Honey, and says it may yet get its turn.

Radiohead were billed, but Yorke came on his own with an acoustic guitar, hours before the full band's club show.

The San Francisco Chronicle sent a critic and a photographer, and the review wondered whether the band would outlast their one hit.

With Pablo Honey past 400,000 copies in America, Yorke thinks of “Creep” as belonging to the people who listen to it.

Almost a year after Parlophone first put it out, the song Britain barely noticed has become an American pop hit.

The song British radio gave up on last year gets a second go at home, now that America has made a hit of it.

Their first night back after pulling out of Reading gets a review in The Times, which judged it by how hard the crowd threw itself about.

A Vermont campus paper finds one song worth the fuss on Radiohead's debut and not much else to keep.

Selling by the hundred thousand in America and struggling for the Top 40 at home, Radiohead tell Paul Moody they would rather succeed in Britain.

The reissued single is a new entry at number seven, a year after its first release stalled at 78.

He says the noise that makes the song was kept after the band heard it on playback, and the song itself no longer feels like theirs.

With “Creep” back in the UK top ten, Yorke looks back on a naive first record and a year of about 100 gigs.

The issue finds “Creep” a hit in America and in the charts at home.

For the Marquette University students who booked it, the night was the biggest show their committee ever put on.

Ahead of Radiohead's Boulder date with Belly, Phil Selway says the British press first took them for a record company's idea of an indie band.

Melody Maker's cover story rides up the American east coast with Radiohead and Belly, and counts what “Creep” has done for them there.

Worn out on a support tour with James, Yorke tells a Glasgow student paper that Radiohead never want to open for another band.

Five weeks as James's support act gave Radiohead their first crowds in four more countries and a new song for the set, and left Thom Yorke worn out.