Song · Live covers
I'm Set Free
A Velvet Underground song Thom Yorke sang with Beck at a Los Angeles benefit in 2002.
1969
the third album
Lou Reed wrote it for the Velvet Underground's third record, the quiet one made after John Cale left: a song about being released from something and immediately finding the next illusion to believe in.
26 feb 2002
the wiltern
Yorke sang it with Beck at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles on 26 February 2002, at a benefit for the Recording Artists' Coalition, an unrehearsed duet in the middle of someone else's set.
It was not a Radiohead performance and there is no Radiohead recording. The 2003 site filed it with the band's covers because the voice was Yorke's.
the video
Their Velvet Underground cover.· take02watch on youtube →
sources2
- This site's own catalogue, which lists it as a cover of the Velvet Underground.
- NME, February 2002, for the Wiltern benefit and the Beck duet.