Thom Yorke's signed bowler hat sells for £8,300 for charity

A bowler hat signed and worn by Thom Yorke sold on eBay on Sunday 29 November for £8,300, after 100 bids. Most reports took it to be the hat Yorke wears through the black-and-white video for “Lotus Flower”; Pitchfork dated it to the King of Limbs period, when, Rolling Stone Italia added, he also wore a bowler on stage. The reports had Yorke's signature inside it, beside a hand-drawn Radiohead logo.

Radiohead announced the sale on the morning of Monday 23 November with a post on Twitter and Instagram that opened For Sale: one bowler hat.² Bidding had passed £4,700 by that afternoon. The listing was the Scottish testicular cancer charity Cahonas Scotland's own, and all of the money goes to it. The charity works to make the signs and symptoms of testicular cancer better known.