Before they recorded the six-minute opus in the place’s wooden ballroom, the band lit candles and drank vodka oranges.ġ5. When making ‘Paranoid Android’, Ed O’Brien said: “We wanted to make a crossing of Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ and The Pixies.”ġ4. The old house is actually the same place where The Cure recorded ‘Wild Mood Swings’, and New Order did some of ‘Waiting For The Sirens’ Call’ there too.ġ3. I came downstairs and everyone was like, ‘Uh, are you all right?’ I was like, ‘What’s wrong?’ Phil very gently took me downstairs and shaved it all off.”ġ2. “There was one point where I got up in the morning after a night of hearing voices and decided I had to cut my hair.” With nothing to hand he used penknife scissors and, he said, “I cut myself a few times. He later revealed that ghosts would talk to him in his sleep there. Yorke said of the isolated house: “I spent my whole time there terrified, because everything constantly reminded you of your own mortality.”ġ1. It’s owned by actress Jane Seymour, of Live and Let Die.ġ0. The album was recorded in a 15 th century mansion near Bath called St Catherine’s Court. Yorke said of the joke title: “That’s how people would like me to be.”ĩ. Also drawn from Hitchhikers… is the name ‘Paranoid Android’ – aka Marvin, the depressed robot. Brian Eno, who commissioned ‘Lucky’ for Warchild, said it was “the most beautiful song I’ve heard for a long, long time”.Ĩ. They completed the recording in just five hours.Ģ. ‘Lucky’ was recorded two years ahead of the rest of ‘OK Computer’ – for ‘Help’, the 1995 charity album for Warchild.

The recording process for the album is just as fascinating as the turbulent tour that accompanied it – as these fifty lesser-known facts prove.ġ. “The claustrophobia – just having no sense of reality at all.” And yet the product of that difficult period became their biggest commercial success to date: ‘OK Computer’ went five-times platinum in the UK, went on to sell more than 4.5m copies, and contains their two highest-charting singles yet in ‘Paranoid Android’ and ‘No Surprises’. The intensity of their schedules had left an impact on the band: “I was basically catatonic,” Yorke recently told Rolling Stone. ‘Creep’, and with their second album, 1995’s ‘The Bends’, they’d found a slow-burning fame that kept them touring for years. Their 1993 debut ‘Pablo Honey’ had yielded a surprise hit single. In 1997 Radiohead were at a crossroads in their career.

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