Radiohead

Radiohead are a British alternative rock band from Oxford and nearby Abingdon. Many fans and critics regard them as a seminal rock outfit and the natural inheritors of R.E.M. and Pink Floyd's mantle. The band consists of:

Multimedia

Videos

• Live at the Astoria (1995, VHS)
• 7 Television Commercials (1997, VHS/DVD)
• Meeting People Is Easy (1999, VHS/DVD)
• The Most Gigantic Lying Mouth Of All Time (2004, DVD)

Books

• Radiohead: An Illustrated Biography by Nick Johnstone (1997, ISBN 0711965811)
• Radiohead: From a Great Height by Jonathan Hale (1999, ISBN 1550223739)
• Radiohead: Hysterical and Useless by Martin Clarke (2000, ISBN 0859653323)
• Exit Music: The Radiohead Story by Mac Randall, (2000, ISBN 0385333935)
• Radiohead: Back to Save the Universe by James Doheny (2002, ISBN 1560253983)
• Radiohead: A Visual Documentary by Tim Footman and Billy Dancer (2002, ISBN 1842401793)
• The Music and Art of Radiohead edited by Joseph Tate (2005, ISBN 0754639800)

Radiohead by others

• Australian musician Frank Bennett gave an unconventional makeover to Radiohead's song "Creep" on his 1996 album "Five O'Clock Shadow", performing it in the style of Frank Sinatra. The album is out of commercial distribution, but The Official Frank Bennett website provides mp3 downloads of his recordings.
• In September 1998, American jazz pianist Brad Mehldau included his version of Radiohead's "Exit Music (For a Film)" on his album The Art Of The Trio, Vol. 3. In August 2002 he released the album Largo which featured Radiohead's "Paranoid Android". Both of these tracks are taken from OK Computer. The Anything Goes album, released February 2004, includes a re-working of the track "Everything in its Right Place" from Radiohead's Kid A. All three albums were released by Warner Brothers. His Live in Tokyo album from 2004 (on Nonesuch) includes a 19-minute, live rendition of "Paranoid Android".
• In 2000, spoof act Richard Cheese included a lounge music-style version of the song Creep on his first album Lounge Against the Machine. The song culminated in a partial rendition of Fitter, Happier.
• The Section, a popular music string quartet, released two albums (on independent record label Vitamin Records) covering Radiohead: 2001's Strung Out On OK Computer, a track for track reprise of OK Computer; and 2003's Enigmatic, which draws mostly from Kid A and Amnesiac with a few tracks from The Bends.
• In 2003 classical pianist Christopher O'Riley recorded True Love Waits, a collection of Radiohead tracks from various albums arranged for solo piano. It was published by Sony Music. On 12 April 2005 Christopher O'Riley released his second Radiohead tribute. "Harmonia Mundi" is the name of the new label for the True Love Waits follow-up. Hold me to this contains 14 new piano interpretations of Radiohead songs.
• At the 2003 Download festival glam rock band The Darkness first performed their heavy rock cover of Street spirit (fade out). The cover greatly increases the tempo of the original song, and is performed on electric guitars with heavy distortion. This was met with much praise from the general public and Darkness fans, but with a mixed response from Radiohead fans - many of whom thought this heavy cover betrayed the maudlin roots of the original song.
• British pop-jazz artist Jamie Cullum included a cover of "High and Dry" in his 2003 album "Twentysomething".
• American singer-songwriter John Mayer has performed the song "Kid A" live numerous times, and included it on the "Bigger Than My Body" single.
• Radiohead is mentioned in the Comedy Central sitcom , 'South Park' , in episode 501 : Scott Tenorman Must Die . Scott Tenorman likes the band Radiohead , and one of the show's characters explains it further by saying , 'You know , the band has that song - I'm a creep , I'm a weirdo...'. Indeed, the episode guest stars the band, and revolves around Cartman trying to make them insult the aforementioned Tenorman.
• The Japanese rock band Plastic Tree is reputed to have adopted their name from Radiohead's "Fake Plastic Trees."