Radiohead: an interview with Thom Yorke
Phil Sutcliffe, Q, 1999
This is odd. Bound for America, gnawing a touch anxiously on the prospect of an interview with Radioheads Thom Yorke – and here he is, this reputedly remote figure freely available on in-flight entertainment channel 5 to talk us through the new album, OK Computer. Well, perhaps hell clear up a few of those paradoxes and enigmas which so intrigue and bedevil the keen student of Radiohead.
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