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'''Thomas Edward "Thom" Yorke''' (born 7 October 1968) is an [[English people|English]] musician who is the lead vocalist and principal songwriter of the [[alternative rock]] band [[Radiohead]]. He mainly plays guitar and piano, but he has also played drums and bass guitar (notably during the ''[[Kid A]]'' and ''[[Amnesiac]]'' sessions). In July 2006, he released his debut solo album, ''[[The Eraser]]''.
'''Thomas Edward "Thom" Yorke''' (born 7 October 1968) is an [[English people|English]] musician who is the lead vocalist and principal songwriter of the [[alternative rock]] band [[Radiohead]]. He mainly plays guitar and piano, but he has also played drums and bass guitar (notably during the ''[[Kid A]]'' and ''[[Amnesiac]]'' sessions). In July 2006, he released his debut solo album, ''[[The Eraser]]''.


Yorke has been cited among the most influential figures in the music industry: in 2002, ''[[Q Magazine]]'' named Yorke the most powerful British musician<ref>[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-141224/Bono-powerful-music-star.html Bono is most powerful music star]</ref> and in 2005, Radiohead was ranked #73 in ''[[Rolling Stone]]''{{'}}s "100 Greatest Artists of All Time" list. Yorke has also been cited among the greatest singers in the history of [[popular music]]: in 2005, a poll organised by ''[[Blender (magazine)|Blender]]'' and [[MTV2]] saw Yorke voted the 18th greatest singer of all time,<ref name="blender">[http://www.amiannoying.com/(S(wwb0os55dj4oeh45sg3hgt3g))/collection.aspx?collection=534 Blender Magazine's 22 Greatest Voices]</ref> and in 2008, he was ranked 66th in ''Rolling Stone's'' "100 Greatest Singers of all Time".<ref name="rollingstone">{{cite news | title = 100 Greatest Singers Of All Time| work=The Rolling Stone| url =http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-singers-of-all-time-19691231/thom-yorke-19691231
Yorke has been cited among the most influential figures in the music industry: in 2002, ''[[Q Magazine]]'' named Yorke the most powerful British musician<ref>[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-141224/Bono-powerful-music-star.html Bono is most powerful music star]</ref> and in 2005, Radiohead was ranked #73 in ''[[Rolling Stone]]''{{'}}s "[[100 Greatest Artists of All Time]]" list. Yorke has also been cited among the greatest singers in the history of [[popular music]]: in 2005, a poll organised by ''[[Blender (magazine)|Blender]]'' and [[MTV2]] saw Yorke voted the 18th greatest singer of all time,<ref name="blender">[http://www.amiannoying.com/(S(wwb0os55dj4oeh45sg3hgt3g))/collection.aspx?collection=534 Blender Magazine's 22 Greatest Voices]</ref> and in 2008, he was ranked 66th in ''Rolling Stone's'' "100 Greatest Singers of all Time".<ref name="rollingstone">{{cite news | title = 100 Greatest Singers Of All Time| work=The Rolling Stone| url =http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-singers-of-all-time-19691231/thom-yorke-19691231
| accessdate = 24 Mar. 2010}}</ref> [[Allmusic]] wrote: "Few rock singers of the '90s were as original and instantly unforgettable as Thom Yorke."<ref>[{{Allmusic|class=artist|id=p275167/biography|pure_url=yes}} "Thom Yorke"]. [[Allmusic]]. Retrieved 22 June 2010.</ref>
| accessdate = 24 Mar. 2010}}</ref> [[Allmusic]] wrote: "Few rock singers of the '90s were as original and instantly unforgettable as Thom Yorke."<ref>[{{Allmusic|class=artist|id=p275167/biography|pure_url=yes}} "Thom Yorke"]. [[Allmusic]]. Retrieved 22 June 2010.</ref>


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Thom Yorke
Yorke at the Latitude Festival, Suffolk, 2009.
Yorke at the Latitude Festival, Suffolk, 2009.
Background information
Birth nameThomas Edward Yorke
Also known asTchock,[1] Tchocky,[2][3] Dr. Tchock[4][5]
GenresAlternative rock, electronic music
Occupation(s)Musician, singer, songwriter
Instrument(s)Vocals, guitar, piano, keyboards, bass guitar, sampler, programming, laptop, percussion, organ, drums
Years active1985–present
LabelsXL

Thomas Edward "Thom" Yorke (born 7 October 1968) is an English musician who is the lead vocalist and principal songwriter of the alternative rock band Radiohead. He mainly plays guitar and piano, but he has also played drums and bass guitar (notably during the Kid A and Amnesiac sessions). In July 2006, he released his debut solo album, The Eraser.

Yorke has been cited among the most influential figures in the music industry: in 2002, Q Magazine named Yorke the most powerful British musician[6] and in 2005, Radiohead was ranked #73 in Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Artists of All Time" list. Yorke has also been cited among the greatest singers in the history of popular music: in 2005, a poll organised by Blender and MTV2 saw Yorke voted the 18th greatest singer of all time,[7] and in 2008, he was ranked 66th in Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Singers of all Time".[8] Allmusic wrote: "Few rock singers of the '90s were as original and instantly unforgettable as Thom Yorke."[9]

Life and career

Early years

Yorke was born in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire. At birth, his left eye was fixed shut; his doctors believed that the eye was paralyzed, and that the condition would be permanent. Yorke's parents took him to an eye specialist, who suggested a muscle graft. Yorke underwent five eye operations before he was six years old.[10] Yorke's father, a chemical equipment salesman, was hired by a firm in Scotland shortly after his son's birth and the family lived there until Yorke was seven. During this time Yorke had to wear a patch over his eye.[11] He has stated that the last surgery was "botched", leaving him with a drooping eyelid.[12]

Yorke's family moved frequently; Yorke would move from school to school, where classmates teased him because of his eye problems.[13] The family finally settled in Oxfordshire in 1978.[13] Yorke received his first guitar when he was seven, inspired by guitarist Brian May in a live performance with his band Queen.[12] By age 11, he had joined his first band and written his first song.[14] He attended the all boys public school Abingdon where he met future band members Ed O'Brien, Phil Selway, Colin Greenwood and Colin's younger brother, Jonny.[15] Yorke and his friends formed a band named On A Friday, as Friday was the only day on which the members were allowed to rehearse.[12] Yorke, in this early line up, played guitar and provided vocals because "Nobody else would do it", and was already developing his songwriting and lyrical skills. Yorke, speaking about music's influence on him as a schoolboy, said, "School was bearable for me because the music department was separate from the rest of the school. It had pianos in tiny booths, and I used to spend a lot of time hanging around there after school."[16]

After leaving school, Yorke postponed going to university for a year. During that time he worked in a few jobs and was involved in a car accident that made him wary of any kind of mechanised transport.[17] Yorke left Oxford to study at the University of Exeter in late 1988, which as a result put On a Friday on hiatus aside from holiday break rehearsals.[18] While at Exeter, Yorke worked as a DJ at Guild nights in the Lemon Grove and played briefly with the band Headless Chickens.[19] Yorke also met Rachel Owen, whom he began dating.[20]

Radiohead

Main article: Radiohead

On A Friday resumed activity in 1991 as the members were finishing their degree courses. Now relocated to Oxford, they signed to Parlophone and changed their name to Radiohead. Around this time, Yorke said he "hit the self-destruct button pretty quickly"; he drank heavily, which resulted in him randomly cutting his hair off and being too drunk to perform onstage.[21]

Radiohead first gained notice with the worldwide hit single "Creep", which later appeared on the band's 1993 debut album Pablo Honey. Yorke admitted later that the success had fed his ego; he tried to project himself as a rock star, which included bleaching his hair and wearing extensions. He said, "When I got back to Oxford I was unbearable . . . [A]s soon as you get any success you disappear up your own arse and lost it forever."[22]

By the time of their second album, The Bends (1995), the band, through frequent touring and greater attention to detail in the recording studio, had picked up a large cult fan base and had begun to receive wider critical acclaim. After the album's release, the American group R.E.M. picked Radiohead as its opening act for the European leg of their tour.[23] While on tour Yorke and R.E.M. singer Michael Stipe became close friends; in particular, Stipe gave him advice on how to deal with the demands of being in a rock band.[24] During the production of the band's third album, OK Computer (1997), all five members had differing opinions and equal production roles, with Yorke having "the loudest voice", according to guitarist Ed O'Brien.[25] After the album was finished, Yorke and Jonny Greenwood contributed to the Velvet Goldmine soundtrack along with other musicians under the moniker Venus in Furs.[26] Upon release, OK Computer was heralded as a landmark album by nearly every publication that reviewed it, establishing Radiohead as one of the leading alternative rock acts of the 1990s. But Yorke was ambivalent about this success. Some of these concerns were voiced in the documentary film Meeting People Is Easy, which focused on the period. Yorke has explained in various interviews that he dislikes the "mythology" within the rock genre, and hates the media's obsession with celebrities.[27]

Yorke and the band adopted a more radical approach on 2000's Kid A and 2001's Amnesiac, processing vocals, obscuring lyrics, and departing from rock for a more varied musical landscape including electronic, jazz and avant-garde classical influences. The albums expanded Radiohead's sales while earning acclaim for experimentation, but also divided fans and critics. In 2003, Radiohead released their sixth album, Hail to the Thief, a blend of rock and electronica that Yorke described as a reaction to the events of the early 2000s and newfound fears for his children's future, though he denied a specific political intent. The band continued to tour, and in 2005 they undertook recording sessions for a seventh album, In Rainbows, released as a DRM-free download in October 2007. In February 2011, the band released their eighth studio album, The King of Limbs, via digital download.

Solo work

Yorke released his solo album, The Eraser, in 2006. Produced by Nigel Godrich and featuring cover art by Stanley Donwood, it was released on the independent label XL Recordings. Yorke described the album as "more beats and electronics" and denied that it meant he was leaving Radiohead, saying, "I want no crap about me being a traitor or whatever splitting up blah blah... this was all done with their blessing."[28] The Eraser reached number 3 in the UK in its first week and number 2 in the United States, Canada and Australia, as well as number 9 on the Irish charts. The album was on the prestigious Mercury Prize shortlist and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album.

Yorke rarely plays as a solo act, having never embarked on a solo tour. He has sometimes played short acoustic sets of Radiohead songs in the band's webcasts and television appearances, and occasionally on his own at rallies. However, he did play solo sets at the 2002 Bridge School Benefit concerts organised by Neil Young. In 2006, he performed stripped-down versions of several songs from The Eraser ("Analyse", "The Clock", "Skip Divided" and "Cymbal Rush") on radio and TV programmes, and since then he has played and sung "Cymbal Rush" as an encore at some Radiohead concerts. In July 2009, Yorke played a rare solo performance at the Latitude Festival in England.[29] In February 2010, Yorke played a solo show for the Green Party at the Cambridge Corn Exchange, where he played select Radiohead songs and songs from The Eraser, as well as five entirely new songs: "The Daily Mail", "Lotus Flower", "Give Up The Ghost", "I Froze Up", and "Mouse, Dog, Bird".[30]

On 21 September 2009 Yorke released a new double-A side single, "Feeling Pulled Apart by Horses / The Hollow Earth".[31] It was later announced that he has established an unnamed band with Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Joey Waronker of R.E.M. and Beck, Mauro Refosco of Forro in the Dark and producer Nigel Godrich.[32] They played two sold out shows at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles on 4 and 5 October 2009.[33] Two days before, Yorke also played a "warm-up" show at the Echoplex in Los Angeles.[34] On 25 February 2010, Yorke officially gave the band the name Atoms for Peace.[35]

In June 2010, Yorke attracted some notoriety when he stated in an interview that "It will be only a matter of time - months rather than years - before the music business establishment completely folds" and that such an event will be of "no great loss to the world".[36] Yorke's quote quickly caused a stir of buzz on the blogosphere, with critics both praising and criticising his frankness.[37]

Collaborations

Aside from his own solo work, Yorke has collaborated with several artists. He sang backing vocals on PJ Harvey's Mercury Prize-winning 2000 album Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea and sung a duet with Harvey on one of her songs, "This Mess We're In". In the same year, he also appeared on Björk's soundtrack album Selmasongs, singing "I've Seen It All" with her. The Oscar-nominated song was written for Dancer in the Dark, a film starring Björk, and Yorke's part is sung in the film by actor Peter Stormare; due to time constraints, Björk performed it alone at the 2001 Academy Awards. The two worked together again in 2008 on a charity single called "Náttúra".

Yorke also sang covers of the Roxy Music songs "2HB", "Ladytron" and "Bitter-Sweet" for the 1998 film Velvet Goldmine, as part of Venus in Furs. The band existed solely for the film's soundtrack and also consisted of Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood, Suede's Bernard Butler, and Roxy Music's Andy Mackay. Yorke was duplicating Bryan Ferry's original vocals. Two other cover songs were performed by Venus in Furs, with vocals by actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers in the film; Yorke never appeared onscreen.

Examples of Yorke's other collaborations are the 1998 single "Rabbit in Your Headlights", which he sang and co-wrote with DJ Shadow and which closes Psyence Fiction, the debut album by the group UNKLE; "El President", a 1998 duet with Isabel Monteiro of the band Drugstore, which was also released as a single; and vocals on the 2007 track "The White Flash", by the electronic music group Modeselektor, from their album Happy Birthday. Yorke has also collaborated with Stanley Donwood on a picture book entitled Dead Children Playing. Yorke also covered lead vocal duties on "...And the World Laughs with You" from the 2010 Flying Lotus album Cosmogramma.

In 2010, Yorke worked with Bryan Ferry, Mark Ronson, Bob Hoskins, Andy Murray, and David Cameron to release the charity single "2 Minute Silence"—a track composed entirely of silence—to raise money for the families of British troops released on Remembrance Day, 7 November.[38] The song peaked in the UK Singles Chart at number 20.[39]

In 2011, Yorke lent vocals to two tracks, "Ego" and "Mirror", created through a collaboration between Burial and Four Tet. The songs were debuted on the radio station, Rinse FM, before being released on vinyl.[40]

Atoms for Peace

On 25 February 2010 Yorke revealed the name of his new band—"Atoms for Peace"—and announced a series of U.S. tour dates. Yorke first introduced the band late in 2009. It includes Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers on bass, R.E.M. all-round session drummer Joey Waronker, percussionist Mauro Refosco of the musical collective Forro in the Dark and Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich on keyboards and treatments. When the band officially debuted in Los Angeles last October, it was billed with question marks due to it being unnamed. In a note on Radiohead's website, Yorke wrote; "It has been decided that we call ourselves Atoms For Peace. hope you like the name. it seemed bleedin' obvious." Atoms for Peace is a track on Yorke's 2006 solo album The Eraser. Yorke said the band would play eight dates starting in New York on 5 April before hitting the three-day 2010 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California on 18 April. Radiohead recently took a break from recording, but performed a Haiti relief fund-raising concert in Los Angeles in January.[citation needed]

Personal life

Yorke currently lives in Oxford with his long-time girlfriend, Rachel Owen, who obtained a Ph.D. from the University of London for research on the illustrations to Dante's Divine Comedy, having previously studied fine art printmaking at the University of Exeter and painted at the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno, Florence.[41] They have two children, Noah, born in 2001, and Agnes, born 2004. He has one brother, Andy, ex-vocalist of the band Unbelievable Truth.

In 2005, Yorke became a spokesman for Friends of the Earth and their campaign to reduce carbon emissions, The Big Ask.[42]

Yorke often pays tribute to his children while performing live; during songs at the 2006 Bonnaroo Festival, Yorke played with guitar picks imprinted with Agnes' fingerprints.

Musical approach

Vocal characteristics

Thom Yorke in 2006

As a singer, Yorke is recognisable by his distinctive light baritone voice, vibrato, frequent use of falsetto, and ability to reach and sustain notes over a wide vocal range. During the recording sessions for The Bends in 1994, Radiohead watched Jeff Buckley in concert; Yorke later said the concert directly influenced his vocal delivery on "Fake Plastic Trees".[43] However, Yorke has said, "It annoys me how pretty my voice is... how polite it can sound when perhaps what I'm singing is deeply acidic."[44] He has explored other styles of singing, such as the aggressive shouting in "Paranoid Android" and semi-spoken vocals in "Myxomatosis" and "A Wolf at the Door".

Musicianship

Aside from vocal duties and writing lyrics, Yorke's musical contributions to Radiohead include guitar and piano. He also plays bass guitar on occasion (the bass line for "The National Anthem" was recorded by him) as well as drums; during the 2006 and 2008–2009 tours he performed percussion on stage in tandem with drummer Phil Selway on the track "Bangers & Mash".

Yorke, unlike the other members of Radiohead, has never learned how to read music.[45] He said, "If someone lays the notes on a page in front of me, it's meaningless... because to me you can't express the rhythms properly like that. It's a very ineffective way of doing it, so I've never really bothered picking it up."[44]

Since Kid A, Radiohead, and in particular Yorke, have incorporated elements of electronic music into their work. As a result, Yorke has taken an increased role in programming beats and samples and has been credited with playing "laptop" on recent albums. On a radio show in 2003 to publicise the release of Hail to the Thief, Yorke remarked that he would rather make a record just with a computer than with only an acoustic guitar.[46] His solo effort The Eraser featured piano, bass and guitar, but was built primarily around electronics.

In interviews Yorke has cited a variety of personal musical heroes and influences, including jazz composer and bassist Charles Mingus, Neil Young, Miracle Legion, singer Scott Walker, electronic acts Aphex Twin and Autechre, and Krautrock band Can. Talking Heads, Queen, Joy Division, Magazine, Elvis Costello, The Smiths and Sonic Youth were early influences on Radiohead and Yorke. In 2004, at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, Yorke mentioned to the crowd, "When I was in college, the Pixies and R.E.M. changed my life.".[47]

Activism

Yorke has spoken out on various political and social issues. Radiohead had read No Logo by Naomi Klein during the Kid A sessions ("No Logo" was also briefly considered as the album title) and all the members were reportedly heavily influenced by it, though Yorke said it "didn't teach him anything he didn't already know".[48] Yorke's activism in support of fair trade practices, with an anti-WTO and anti-globalisation stance, garnered significant attention in the early 2000s.[49] Yorke had previously referenced maquiladoras in the title of a Radiohead B-side in 1995, and decried the IMF in 1997's "Electioneering". Yorke is also a professed fan of Noam Chomsky's political writings,[50] and is a vegan.[51]

Yorke is also notable as a political activist on behalf of other causes, including human rights and anti-war movements such as Jubilee 2000, Amnesty International and CND, and Friends of the Earth's Big Ask campaign.[52] Radiohead played at the Free Tibet concert in both 1998 and 1999, and at an Amnesty International concert in 1998.[53] In 2005, Yorke performed at an all-night vigil for the Trade Justice Movement.[54] In 2006, Jonny Greenwood and Yorke performed a special benefit concert for Friends of the Earth. Yorke made headlines the same year for refusing Prime Minister Tony Blair's request to meet with him to discuss climate change, declaring Blair had "no environmental credentials".[55] Yorke has subsequently been critical of his own energy use. He has said the music industry's use of air transport is dangerous and unsustainable, and that he would consider not touring if new carbon emissions standards do not force the situation to improve.[56] Radiohead commissioned a study by the group Best Foot Forward which the band claims helped them choose venues and transport methods that will greatly reduce the carbon expended on their 2008 tour. The band also made use of a new low-energy LED lighting system and encouraged festivals to offer reusable plastics.[57]

Thom Yorke supported the climate change documentary, The Age of Stupid. He donated Radiohead's song "Reckoner" for the end credits of the film and performed the track live via satellite linkup for The Age of Stupid's Global Premiere.[58] During the live satellite linkup, Yorke spoke out about the problems of economic growth, saying, "I think Ed Miliband probably knows this but won't admit it, as most politicians won't: that the concept of limitless economic growth is now dead."

In December 2009, Yorke gained access to the COP 15 climate change talks in Copenhagen, posing as a member of the media.[59] Whilst at the conference he took part in Spanner Films 'Stupid Show' - short films shot at the conference each day with the aim of making the talks comprehensible for ordinary people.[60] He appeared alongside Tony Juniper, debating the barriers to a global deal on emissions reduction and the issue of media representation of the climate change debate - he called the BBC a "bunch of monkeys" [61]

Relationship with celebrities and the media

Yorke has had an uneasy relationship with other celebrities and the media. Following Radiohead's 1993 Pablo Honey tour of America, Yorke became disenchanted at being "right at the sharp end of the sexy, sassy, MTV eye-candy lifestyle" he felt he was helping to sell to the world.[62] The 1998 documentary film Meeting People is Easy portrays Yorke's disaffection with the music industry and press during the 1997-8 "Against Demons" world tour.[63]

A number of celebrities have been upset by Yorke's public persona. In 2001, Kelly Jones, the lead singer of the Welsh band Stereophonics, referred to Thom Yorke as a "miserable twat"[64] (a comment he later retracted[65]). In 2002, Jack Black claimed to have approached Yorke to congratulate him on his solo show at the Bridge School Benefit concert in San Francisco, only for Yorke to ignore him and walk away. Referring to the incident, Black stated in an interview: "I heard later that he's famously cold, and it wasn't just me that he despises, but the whole world."[66] After completing a trek of Kilimanjaro in 2009, Ronan Keating was asked by an interviewer which celebrity he would most like to throw off a mountain. Keating named Yorke, and referred to him as a "muppet", stating that Yorke was once rude to him.[67] In the same year, Miley Cyrus and Kanye West also complained about Yorke's alleged rudeness. In a response to these complaints, Yorke wrote on Radiohead's Dead Air Space website, "wish us all a safe journey if you still like us and you're not one of those people I have managed to offend by doing nothing."

Discography

Main article: Thom Yorke discography
See also: Radiohead discography

Notes

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  4. ^ Force, Chris (11 Sep. 2007). "Thom Yorke, Longtime Radiohead Artist Issue Art Collection". alarmpress.com. Retrieved 9 Jul. 2009. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= and |date= (help)
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  6. ^ Bono is most powerful music star
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  10. ^ Randall, p. 19
  11. ^ Randall, p. 20
  12. ^ a b c McLean, Craig (18 Jun. 2006). "All messed up". The Observer. London. Retrieved 26 Mar. 2007. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= and |date= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  13. ^ a b Randall, p. 21
  14. ^ Randall, p. 23
  15. ^ Randall, p. 26–33
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  17. ^ Randall, p. 38–39
  18. ^ Randall, p. 43
  19. ^ Randall, p. 48
  20. ^ Randall, p. 52
  21. ^ Randall, p.87
  22. ^ Randall, p. 120
  23. ^ Randall, p. 177
  24. ^ randall, p. 178
  25. ^ Randall, p. 195
  26. ^ Randall, p. 200
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  28. ^ "All Messed Up: Blackpool". The Guardian. London. 12 May 2006. Retrieved 17 Jul. 2008. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
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  31. ^ Thom Yorke confirms new single
  32. ^ http://radiohead.com/deadairspace/index.php?a=505
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  34. ^ "Echoplex Show Confirmed!". 1 Oct. 2009. Retrieved 23 Oct. 2009. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= and |date= (help)
  35. ^ "Thom Yorke Names Solo Band, Lines Up American Spring Tour". 25 Feb. 2010. Retrieved 25 Feb. 2010. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= and |date= (help)
  36. ^ "Radiohead - Yorke Warns Music Industry Will Collapse 'In Months'!". contactmusic. 9 Jun. 2010. Retrieved 10 Jun. 2010. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= and |date= (help)
  37. ^ "Thom Yorke Predicts Record Industry Will Crumble in 'Months': Really?!". The Atlantic Wire. 9 Jun. 2010. Retrieved 10 Jun. 2010. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= and |date= (help)
  38. ^ O'Neal, Sean (18 October 2010). "Thom Yorke hopes to sell you two minutes of silence". A.V. Club. Retrieved 18 October 2010.
  39. ^ http://www.britishlegion.org.uk/about-us/media-centre/news/poppy-appeal/2-minute-silence-single-reaches-top-20-for-remembrance-sunday
  40. ^ Breihan, Tom. "Listen: Thom Yorke/Four Tet/Burial Collabs". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 29 July 2011.
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  42. ^ "The Big Ask European Launch Event with Tom Yorke". Friends of the Earth Europe. 27 February 2008.
  43. ^ "greenplastic". Retrieved 17 Jul. 2008. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  44. ^ a b Pareles, Jon (2 Jul. 2006). "With Radiohead, and Alone, the Sweet Malaise of Thom Yorke". New York Times. Retrieved 27 Sep. 2008. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= and |date= (help)
  45. ^ "Happy now?". June 2001. Retrieved 21 Feb. 2009. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  46. ^ Jo Whiley's Radio 1 show, 2003.
  47. ^ "Pixies dust Coachella music fest with magic". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Retrieved 17 Jul. 2008. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  48. ^ "Q Magazine - October 2000 - By Danny Eccleston". Q magazine. 2000. Retrieved 17 Jul. 2008. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  49. ^ Yorke, Thom (8 Sep. 2003). "Losing the faith". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 15 Apr. 2007. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= and |date= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  50. ^ "Brian Draper's interview with Thom Yorke for Third Way". The London Institute for Contemporary Christianity. 1 Jul. 2005. Retrieved 26 Feb. 2011. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= and |date= (help)
  51. ^ "MTV interview: Radiohead: A New Life". MTV. 2007. Retrieved 31 Oct. 2008. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  52. ^ "Thom Yorke and 'The Big Ask'", Friends of the Earth. Retrieved 16 May 2006.
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References

  • Media related to Thom Yorke at Wikimedia Commons
  • Quotations related to Thom Yorke at Wikiquote
  • The Eraser: Official website for Yorke's solo album release

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