All Hail Yorkie Boy: Radiohead

IN THE MEDIEVAL trench that’s Turl Street in Oxford, Thom Yorke, the city’s most famously and aggressively diffident son, rocks back and forth in his blue-and-white basketball shoes, howling with derision ‘Oh no!’ He yelps, ‘I can’t stand this stuff! I used to walk past this window and see if I could pick out just one thing - one thing I could wear.’