Radiohead release “Man of War”, the old “Big Boots”, with a video

Radiohead released “Man of War”, with a video by Colin Read, on Thursday 22 June. The studio take is mid-tempo, strings and piano with a guitar cutting through them. OK Computer OKNOTOK 1997 2017 is out on XL Recordings on 23 June. “I Promise” came first, on 2 June, and “Lift” is still to come.

Read's video follows a balding man in a white shirt and slacks through a city, the picture cutting without warning between day and night. By day he walks about without a care. By night strangers chase him for reasons the film never gives, until the two halves blur into one.

Fans know the song as “Big Boots”, the name it went by on the tour for The Bends in late 1995, when the band played it at 15 shows from Leeds on 1 November to Montreal on 13 December. They played it once more, in Salamanca in August 2002, and introduced it by its old name.