News · 16 April 2003

Hail to the Thief mixes were stolen on 15 December, says Bernard Lenoir

first posted on Treefingers by Miro · rewritten for the archive 24 September 2026

Bernard Lenoir, who presents C'est Lenoir on the French station France Inter, says the early mixes of Hail to the Thief now circulating online were stolen on 15 December, while Nigel Godrich was mixing the album.

thanks to At Ease

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France Inter, C'est Lenoir, as relayed on 16 April 2003

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