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Radiohead: MEN arena, Manchester

Rob Hughes, Daily Telegraph, 8 October 2012

"HELLO. MY name's Lady Gaga." Thom Yorke's introduction to Radiohead's first British audience in four years was happily and tellingly unpredictable. Saturday's sellout show in Manchester, one of only three UK dates following a more substantial swing across the US, served as delayed support for another creative left turn in the form of 2011's The King of Limbs.

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