News · 11 September 2003

David Bowie names Radiohead at the Beacon as the last great show he saw

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

Asked by Rolling Stone's Austin Scaggs to name the last great performance he saw, David Bowie picks Radiohead at the Beacon Theatre in New York in June.

I had a shrewd suspicion that they were the best band around, and that convinced me.
David Bowie¹

sources · 1

Rolling Stone, Austin Scaggs, “Bowie's Heroes”, interview with David Bowie, 10 September 2003 · web.archive.org

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also in September 2003

Thom Yorke tells Magnet the band are bored of making albums

Radiohead close the summer leg at White River with “Follow Me Around”

“Myxomatosis” is on the FIFA Football 2004 soundtrack

Radiohead give a signed OK Computer gold disc to a Samaritans auction

Thom Yorke argues for fair trade in the Guardian

Dizzee Rascal beats Radiohead to the Mercury Music Prize

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