Raw gets the stories behind Radiohead's sleeves and videos

The face on the cover of The Bends is a plastic resuscitation dummy. Dan Rickwood, the sleeve designer, tells Raw in its January/February issue that he and Thom Yorke had three days left to make the cover. They went to the John Radcliffe hospital in Oxford looking for an iron lung, and ended up in the room where medical students practise resuscitation.

The main feature is built round the last night of the UK tour, a full Southampton Guildhall on 7 November. The band encored with the Bond theme “Nobody Does It Better” and Roger Taylor of Queen turned up at the basement party afterwards.

A collectors' sidebar names the five-track On a Friday cassette, sold for £3 at Manic Hedgehog in Oxford, as the hardest Radiohead item to find. The deleted Drill EP ran to 3,000 copies and the first pressing of “Creep” to 6,000.

Four directors talk about their videos. David Mould's crew didn't know the rain machine's water could be warmed for “High and Dry”, and after three hours under it the band went down with flu. Jake Scott shot “Fake Plastic Trees” in an aircraft hangar in Los Angeles, with Yorke pushed round a supermarket in a trolley. Jamie Thraves won't say what the man lying in the street in “Just” tells the crowd. Jonathan Glazer says Yorke did the backwards fall in “Street Spirit (Fade Out)” himself, after three or four whiskies, onto a mattress that was later taken out by computer.

The four videos