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Thom Yorke tells Daniel Craig Radiohead's only plan was a year off
Radiohead's only plan lately has been to take a year off, Thom Yorke tells Daniel Craig in Interview magazine, and the idea was Ed O'Brien's. Ed wanted to go live somewhere else and switch off.
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I've never interviewed anyone before, so if I ask anything stupid, then just tell me to fuck off,
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Craig, a Radiohead fan for years, begins.
Atoms for Peace feel to Yorke like starting over, without the big Radiohead flag, which guarantees this insane level of scrutiny
2. He was in Los Angeles getting the band ready to take its album Amok on tour, starting in Paris on 6 July.
After OK Computer, Yorke says, he had a run of small breakdowns and stopped recognising the man in the mirror or the one on the records. I'd come off stage and could not speak at all
1. Michael Stipe helped him through it, as Yorke told Alec Baldwin in April. Stipe's advice, for when it feels bad, was to be there but shut down.