Thom Yorke picks a night in Dublin as his moment of 1997

Thom Yorke's memory of 1997 is the night Radiohead headlined to about 33,000 people in Dublin, by far the biggest show they had played, and it terrified him. The show was at the RDS on 21 June. That night, he tells David Sinclair in Rolling Stone's year-end Q&A, he dreamt he was running along the Liffey with a tidal wave behind him. He has no idea what dreams mean, but keeps a note of his. I find it imperative that I write them down, just for my own sanity.¹

OK Computer, out in America in July, did not make the US Top 20. We don't fit the format. Fucking obvious.¹ He counts that as a bonus. He has given up listening to alternative-rock stations, and says the band are going back to tour. “Creep” only fitted, he thinks, because of that guitar noise, and without it they would be nowhere.

The event that moved him most was the Tibetan Freedom Concert in New York, which for a moment made him believe things could change.

He was relieved when Nick Kent wrote that the album was not the best they would do. What frustrates him is people missing the humour. “Fitter Happier” came out of a pile of self-improvement books he bought, which the band tried to use in different ways. His word for the year is enlightening. Obviously I wouldn't say prosperous. I'm British, and we don't say things like that.¹