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  • Thom Yorke was born on the 7th of October 1968 in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, with a paralysed left eye. By the age of six he had undergone five operations on it. The last, in his own word, was "botched", and it left him with a drooping eyelid. He refused any further surgery. As he put it: "I decided I liked the fact that it wasn't the same, and I've liked it ever since." That stubborn streak runs through the career of the man who became the singer and main songwriter of Radiohead, a band with sales of more than 30 million albums. How did a boy who felt out of place at school grow into one of the most admired voices of his generation? Why did success at the highest level nearly break him? And why does he keep picking fights with the businesses that sell his records?

  • Brian May of Queen appeared on television when Yorke was eight, and Yorke later said that this was the moment he knew he would be a rock star. At ten he built his own guitar, inspired by May's homemade Red Special. By eleven he had joined a band and written a song.

    Lundin Links in Fife was home until he was seven. His father, a nuclear physicist, had taken a job with a firm in Scotland soon after Yorke's birth, and the boy moved from school to school. In 1978 the family settled in Oxfordshire, and Yorke attended primary school in Standlake.

    He never set out to be a singer. He simply had nobody to sing the songs he was writing. That changed in 1985, when he watched Siouxsie Sioux perform at the Apollo. He said he had never seen anyone "captivate an audience like she did".

    Abingdon, a private boys' school in Oxfordshire, did not suit him. He felt out of place and got into fights with other students. The music and art departments became his sanctuary. He wrote music for a school production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, and a vocal recital of a Schubert piece gave him the confidence to sing. He also had classical guitar lessons with Colin Greenwood, who would later join his band.

    The director of music, Terence Gilmore-James, remembered Yorke as "forlorn and a little isolated" because of his unusual appearance, though also talkative and opinionated. He judged Yorke "not a great musician" but a "thinker and experimenter". Yorke later credited Gilmore-James and the head of the art department for his success.

    In 1985 Yorke, Colin Greenwood, Ed O'Brien and Philip Selway formed a band called On a Friday, named for the only day they were allowed to practice. Colin's younger brother, Jonny, joined later. Selway said everyone brought songs at first, but Yorke emerged as the main writer.

    After school came a gap year spent trying to make it as a professional musician. He sold suits, worked in an architect's office and recorded a demo tape. A serious car accident left a mark on the lyrics of several later songs. In the late 1980s he also made a solo album called Dearest, which O'Brien compared to the Jesus and Mary Chain, with delay and reverb.

    Island Records offered On a Friday a deal on the strength of their first demo. The members decided they were not ready and chose university first. Yorke had hoped to read English at St John's College in Oxford. He felt the university "would have eaten me up and spat me out". He also considered studying music, but he could not read sheet music.

    In late 1988 he went to the University of Exeter instead, and he left with a 2:1 in English and art. There he played experimental music with a classical ensemble and joined a techno group called Flickernoise. He also performed with a band called Headless Chickens, including songs that would later be Radiohead material. Exeter is where he met Stanley Donwood, the future Radiohead cover artist, and his future wife, Rachel Owen. He dismissed his own paintings from this period in blunt terms and said he "went AWOL for three months". Still, he credited his art school education for preparing him creatively.

    On a Friday resumed in 1991 as members finished their degrees, sharing a house in Oxford. Their first interview was with the Oxford music magazine Curfew. Its editor, Ronan Munro, remembered Yorke saying "This is going to happen" and "Failure is not an option". Munro added that Yorke was no ranting diva, just "so focused on what he wanted to do".

  • In 1991, at the age of 22, Yorke saw his band sign to EMI and change its name to Radiohead. Their debut single, "Creep", appeared on the 1993 album Pablo Honey. Success soured almost at once. Yorke told Rolling Stone in 1993: "It's like it's not our song any more... It feels like we're doing a cover."

    He later said he had "hit the self-destruct button pretty quickly". He tried to play the rock star and drank until he was sometimes too drunk to perform. Of coming home to Oxford, he said: "When I got back to Oxford I was unbearable." Years later he described gripping the steering wheel "white-knuckled", not caring "who I hurt or what I said". He later apologised to his bandmates.

    Paul Q Kolderie, co-producer of Pablo Honey, noticed that Yorke's songwriting improved dramatically afterwards. O'Brien said that after the touring, the songs got much better over a year and a half: "suddenly, bang." Even so, recording the second album, The Bends, in 1995 was stressful. The band felt pressure to follow "Creep". Co-manager Chris Hufford said Yorke "became totally confused about what he wanted to do, what he was doing in a band and in his life". Yorke spoke of a "profound fear of having so much to prove".

    Nigel Godrich engineered The Bends and became one of Yorke's longest-running collaborators. The Observer wrote that the album popularised an "angst-laden falsetto". R.E.M. chose Radiohead as their support act for a European tour, and their singer, Michael Stipe, befriended Yorke and advised him on coping with fame. Yorke joined R.E.M. on several occasions between 1998 and 2004 to perform "E-Bow the Letter".

    OK Computer, in 1997, made Radiohead one of the leading rock acts of the decade. O'Brien said Yorke had "the loudest voice" in production, though every member had an equal role. On tour, Colin Greenwood saw a "hundred-yard stare" in Yorke's eyes and felt that "he absolutely did not want to be there". Yorke said afterwards that he had wrongly assumed fame would "fill a gap".

    After that tour Yorke suffered a mental breakdown and found it impossible to write. He felt like an impostor and became self-critical and over-analytical. He turned down an approach to score the 1999 film Fight Club because he was recovering from stress. Meanwhile Travis and Coldplay emerged, and Yorke resented them for seeming to copy him. Godrich told him he had not invented "guys singing in falsetto with an acoustic guitar".

    To recover, Yorke moved to Cornwall and spent his days walking the cliffs, writing and drawing. He limited himself to piano, and the first song he wrote there was "Everything in Its Right Place". He listened almost only to acts on Warp Records, such as Aphex Twin and Autechre. The music "was all structures and had no human voices in it", he said, yet he felt "just as emotional about it as I'd ever felt about guitar music".

    Radiohead carried those electronic influences into Kid A in 2000 and Amnesiac in 2001. They processed vocals, obscured lyrics and brought in synthesisers, drum machines and samplers. Listeners were divided, but the albums sold well and later drew acclaim. Rolling Stone and Pitchfork each named Kid A the best album of the decade.

  • Rolling Stone ranked Yorke the 66th-greatest singer in 2010 and called him one of the most influential singers of his generation. It listed Muse, Coldplay, Travis and Elbow among the bands he influenced. In its updated 2023 list he rose to 34th, praised for his "genuine edge of alienation". Consequence placed him 52nd in 2026.

    His range is among the widest in popular music, and his falsetto is the feature critics return to. Paste called it "sweet", "cautious" and "haunting". The Guardian found the voice "instrument-like" and "spectral". Robert Christgau heard "a pained, transported intensity" and concluded: "Like it or not the voice is remarkable."

    Yorke often bends his voice with software until it becomes what critics call a disembodied instrument. On "Everything in Its Right Place" the treatment creates a "glitching, stuttering collage". In 2006 he admitted that he was irritated by how pretty his voice sounds, because it can seem polite when he is singing something "deeply acidic". By 2023 he said his range had dropped with age, and he now found "Creep" hard to sing.

    His early lyrics were personal, but he decided that "tortured" writing had grown tired. He compared his words to a collage assembled from images and outside sources such as television. From Kid A onward he cut up words and phrases and reassembled them at random. Sometimes he picked words for sound over meaning, as with the title phrase of "Myxomatosis". A 2021 study found he had among the largest vocabularies of pop singers, measured by different words used per song.

    He also borrows clichés and idioms on purpose, inspired by the American artist Barbara Kruger. Pitchfork's Rob Mitchum described Kid A's lyrics as "hum-drum observations twisted into panic attacks". The New Republic's Ryan Kearney went further. In 2016 he called Yorke "the most overrated lyricist in music today" and accused fans of delivering "one overwrought interpretation after another". Yorke's own aim was for lyrics to be "a series of windows opening rather than shutting".

    Anger drives much of the writing. Hail to the Thief, from 2003, deals with the "ignorance and intolerance and panic and stupidity" that Yorke saw after the 2000 election of President George W. Bush. He wrote the 2006 single "Harrowdown Hill" about David Kelly, the British weapons expert and whistleblower. The 2011 single "The Daily Mail" attacks the newspaper of that name. Yet he told the writer George Monbiot in 2015 that a protest song about climate change "would be shit", since one song will not change anyone's mind.

    After Kid A, Yorke also started dancing on stage, because many songs no longer required him to play guitar. The Sunday Times called it his on-stage signature. Critics have used words such as "erratic" and "flailing", and the dance features in the videos for "Lotus Flower" and "Ingenue". In 2011 Rolling Stone readers voted him their 10th-favourite dancing musician.

  • Nigel Godrich has produced most of Yorke's projects, including Radiohead, Atoms for Peace, the first Smile record and most of the solo work. Yorke credits him with editing his output and spotting which parts need work and which hold promise. Their arguments can last for days, Yorke said, but they always resolve them, and he likened Godrich to a brother. Godrich called the pair "very productive together".

    Jonny Greenwood plays a different role. Yorke writes the first versions of most Radiohead songs, Greenwood develops them harmonically, and then the rest of the band shape their parts. Yorke called Greenwood "more impatient", eager for the next idea, while he himself enjoys editing and perfecting. They differ in another way: Greenwood reads sheet music and Yorke does not. Yorke considered notation an ineffective way to express rhythm. Paul McCartney once invited him to play piano on "Mr. Bellamy" for the 2007 album Memory Almost Full. Yorke declined, recalling: "I said to him, 'I strum piano, that's it.'"

    He describes the creative life as a way "to retain a beginner's mind". In his words: "The search is the point." He took up surfing while recording in California and compared making music to sitting on a board for ages, waiting for the right wave. The waiting, he said, might be part of it. In 2026 he insisted he was "not a solo artist" and called his creative partnerships "very precious and very fragile".

    The partnership with Stanley Donwood dates to the 1994 EP My Iron Lung, when Yorke began designing artwork and merchandise for Radiohead and his other projects. He is credited under names such as White Chocolate Farm, Tchock and Dr. Tchock. Donwood's first impression was of someone "mouthy" and "pissed off", and also "someone I could work with". Donwood leans toward detail and perfectionism, while Yorke undoes things. They keep reworking each other's marks until both are content, a contest to see who "wins" the painting. For the Smile album covers, Yorke painted alongside him more than before, especially during the pandemic.

    Despite his art school training, Yorke was reluctant for years to call himself a visual artist. In the 1990s, he felt, there was a sense that "a musician could not possibly be an artist and vice versa". In 2025 the Guardian wrote that the pair had made some of the most recognisable and iconic album covers of their generation. The artist Tarik Barri supplies live visuals for Yorke's solo and multimedia shows.

    Yorke's influences are just as plain. At 16 he sent a demo to a music magazine, which said he sounded like Neil Young. Unfamiliar with Young, he bought After the Gold Rush from 1970, and it gave him the confidence to show "softness and naiveté" in his vocals. Jeff Buckley gave him the nerve to use falsetto. The 1986 album Blood & Chocolate by Elvis Costello and the Attractions changed how he recorded and wrote. He named Stipe his favourite lyricist, and the chorus of "How to Disappear Completely" came from Stipe's advice to repeat "I'm not here, this isn't happening."

    In 2013 Yorke named Aphex Twin as his biggest influence, saying that Aphex "opened up another world that didn't involve" his electric guitar. He also cited a 1962 live album by the jazz musician Charles Mingus, The Complete Town Hall Concert, as formative in that same period.

  • After Radiohead's 1993 American tour, Yorke felt disenchanted at being "right at the sharp end of the sexy, sassy, MTV eye-candy lifestyle" he believed he was helping to sell. Two years later the British press hurt him more. A 1995 Melody Maker article suggested he would kill himself as Kurt Cobain had. In November 1995 NME covered his collapse on stage in Munich with the headline "Thommy's temper tantrum". He called it the most hurtful thing anyone had written about him and refused NME interviews for five years. The 1998 documentary Meeting People Is Easy shows his disaffection during the OK Computer tour.

    When Kid A leaked through the filesharing software Napster weeks before release, Yorke told Time that Napster "encourages enthusiasm for music in a way that the music industry has long forgotten to do". In 2001 he described the American live music business as a monopoly controlled by Clear Channel Entertainment and Ticketmaster. When the EMI contract ended with Hail to the Thief, he told Time that the moment had come to ask why anyone needs a record company.

    That attitude led to In Rainbows in 2007. Radiohead released it independently as a download where listeners chose the price, the first time a major act had done so. The release made headlines worldwide. Yorke called it a "contract of faith" between musicians and audiences. By 2013 he told the Guardian he feared it had played into the hands of firms such as Apple and Google. In 2015 he accused YouTube of "seizing control" of contributors' work and compared it to the Nazis looting art during the Second World War.

    On the 26th of September 2014, Yorke released his second solo album, Tomorrow's Modern Boxes, through BitTorrent. It became the most torrented album of 2014, excluding piracy, with more than a million downloads in six days. He and Godrich hoped to hand "some control of internet commerce back to people who are creating the work". Asked whether it was a success, Yorke answered: "No, not exactly." In practice, he said, artists cannot shoulder all the duties of a record label. By 2016 he had tired of surprise releases and wanted to "just put it out".

    In 2013 Yorke and Godrich turned on Spotify and pulled Atoms for Peace and Yorke's solo music from it. Yorke tweeted that new artists discovered there "will not get paid" while shareholders collect. Brian Message of Radiohead's management company disagreed, noting that Spotify pays 70 percent of its revenue back to the music industry. He said the real problem was that "the pipe has become so jammed". The music returned to Spotify in December 2017.

    In May 2026, accepting a fellowship at the Ivor Novello Awards, Yorke accused the industry of failing to give new acts time to develop. He condemned the "financial frenzy" around share prices and back catalogue sales. Such sales, he said, create an "insane flow of money upwards that leaves nothing but dust for new artists".

  • In 2000, while recording Kid A, Yorke became "obsessed" with the website of the Worldwatch Institute, which was full of alarming statistics about melting icecaps. Becoming a father left him "waking up every night just terrified", and he joined the movement against climate change. In 2003 he became a spokesperson for Friends of the Earth and its Big Ask campaign. He worried that his touring burned plenty of energy, but the charity persuaded him that this made him ideal, since they did not want a "holier-than-thou message".

    In 2006 he turned down an invitation from Friends of the Earth to meet the prime minister, Tony Blair. He said Blair had "no environmental credentials" and that his advisers would manipulate the meeting. In 2008 Radiohead commissioned a study on cutting the carbon spent on tour. They chose venues served by public transport, made deals with trucking firms and used low-energy LED lighting. In 2009 Yorke gained access to the COP 15 climate talks in Copenhagen by posing as a journalist. In 2011 he joined the maiden voyage of Rainbow Warrior III, a Greenpeace yacht.

    His causes reach beyond climate. In 1999 he travelled to the G8 summit to back the Jubilee 2000 movement for cancelling third-world debt. In 2004 he was photographed having chocolate poured over him for the Make Trade Fair campaign. In 2011 he played a secret DJ set for Occupy activists in the abandoned offices of the investment bank UBS.

    Israel has proved his most contested subject. In April 2017 more than 50 prominent figures, including Roger Waters, Thurston Moore, Desmond Tutu and Ken Loach, urged Radiohead to cancel a Tel Aviv show. Yorke replied: "Playing in a country isn't the same as endorsing the government." At a solo concert in Melbourne in October 2024, a pro-Palestinian heckler confronted him. Yorke left the stage and returned only for the last song, "Karma Police". In May 2025 he released a statement condemning both the Israeli government and Hamas's attacks. Pitchfork said it could be read as "surprisingly supportive of Palestine" or "disappointingly mealymouthed". In 2026 Yorke referred to Israel's war as genocide and said he "totally agreed" with the protests.

    At home, Yorke spent 23 years with the artist and lecturer Rachel Owen. Rolling Stone reported in 2012 that they were unmarried, but The Times later found they had married in a secret ceremony in Oxfordshire in May 2003. Their son, Noah, was born in 2001 and their daughter, Agnes, in 2004. They separated amicably in August 2015, and Owen died on the 18th of December 2016, aged 48. In September 2020 Yorke married the Italian actress Dajana Roncione in Bagheria, Sicily. They live in Oxford. Noah has since released songs of his own and performs as part of the noise duo Hex Girlfriend.

    Yorke is a vegetarian and has said society creates suffering for food that people do not need. He practises meditation and has dealt with anxiety and depression through exercise, yoga and reading. In 2023 an extinct stingray species was named Dasyomyliobatis thomyorkei in his honour.

  • Yorke recorded his debut solo album, The Eraser, in 2004 during a Radiohead hiatus. The songs were built and edited on computers. He insisted the band was not splitting up and that the album had their blessing. It came out in 2006 on the independent label XL Recordings and reached the top ten in the UK, Ireland, the United States, Canada and Australia. The single "Harrowdown Hill" reached number 23 in the UK. The album earned a 2006 Mercury Prize nomination and a Grammy nomination in 2007.

    To play it live he formed Atoms for Peace in 2009 with Godrich, the Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea, the drummer Joey Waronker and the percussionist Mauro Refosco. Yorke said that after playing with Radiohead since he was 16, the new band "was quite a trip". Early shows went unnamed, billed as "Thom Yorke" or "??????". They played eight North American shows in 2010 and released the album Amok in February 2013.

    His second solo album, Tomorrow's Modern Boxes, was recorded while Rachel Owen was seriously ill with cancer. Yorke called it a "very bleak period" in which going into the studio at all felt like "a miracle". The third, Anima, arrived on the 27th of June 2019 and became his first number one on the Billboard Dance/Electronic Albums chart. A short film by Paul Thomas Anderson accompanied it and earned a Grammy nomination for Best Music Film.

    In May 2021 Yorke unveiled a new band, the Smile, with Jonny Greenwood and the jazz drummer Tom Skinner, produced by Godrich. Greenwood said it let him and Yorke work together during the COVID-19 lockdowns. The band made a surprise debut in a Glastonbury Festival stream on the 22nd of May. Critics heard a looser, wilder, lower-pressure project with jazz, krautrock and progressive rock influences. The debut album, A Light for Attracting Attention, came out in 2022. Two more, Wall of Eyes and Cutouts, recorded simultaneously, followed in 2024.

    Film and theatre have drawn him out further. His score for the 2018 horror film Suspiria was released on the 26th of October 2018. It was his first project since The Bends made without Godrich, with Sam Petts-Davies producing. It features the London Contemporary Orchestra and Choir, his son Noah on drums, and artwork contributions from his daughter, Agnes. Yorke cited the 1982 Blade Runner soundtrack and krautrock as inspiration. The song "Suspirium" was nominated for a 2020 Grammy Award. In 2015 he composed for a New York production of Harold Pinter's play Old Times. In 2024 he scored the Italian film Confidenza.

    In April 2025 Yorke reworked Hail to the Thief for Hamlet Hail to the Thief, a stage production that opened at Aviva Studios in Manchester and moved to the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon in June. He said the album "chimes with the underlying grief and paranoia" of Hamlet. On the 9th of May 2025, Warp Records released Tall Tales, made with the electronic musician Mark Pritchard. It began in lockdown, with the two men exchanging recordings online.

    At the same Ivor Novello ceremony in 2026, Yorke performed "Jigsaw Falling Into Place" and a new song, "Space Walk". Afterwards he said he was finishing a new solo album.

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Common questions

Who is Thom Yorke?

Thom Yorke is an English musician born on the 7th of October 1968 in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire. He is the singer and main songwriter of Radiohead, a band with sales of more than 30 million albums.

How did Thom Yorke and Radiohead start?

Thom Yorke formed the band On a Friday at Abingdon School in 1985 with Colin Greenwood, Ed O'Brien and Philip Selway, and Jonny Greenwood joined later. In 1991 the band signed to EMI and changed its name to Radiohead.

What solo albums has Thom Yorke released?

Thom Yorke released The Eraser in 2006, Tomorrow's Modern Boxes in 2014 and Anima on the 27th of June 2019. Anima became his first number-one album on the Billboard Dance/Electronic Albums chart.

What is the Smile, Thom Yorke's band with Jonny Greenwood?

The Smile is a band formed by Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood and the jazz drummer Tom Skinner, produced by Nigel Godrich. It debuted in May 2021 and released A Light for Attracting Attention in 2022, then Wall of Eyes and Cutouts in 2024.

Why did Thom Yorke change Radiohead's sound with Kid A?

Thom Yorke recovered from a mental breakdown in Cornwall after the OK Computer tour and listened almost only to electronic acts on Warp Records, such as Aphex Twin and Autechre. Radiohead carried those influences into Kid A in 2000 and Amnesiac in 2001.

Why did Thom Yorke remove his music from Spotify in 2013?

In 2013 Thom Yorke and Nigel Godrich criticised Spotify, saying new artists discovered there would not get paid while shareholders benefit. Yorke removed Atoms for Peace and his solo music, and it was added back in December 2017.

What causes does Thom Yorke support?

Thom Yorke campaigns on climate change, trade justice and anti-war causes. He became a spokesperson for Friends of the Earth and its Big Ask campaign in 2003, and he backed Jubilee 2000 and the Make Trade Fair campaign.

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  95. 208NewsA Thom Yorke painting: yours for a songLudovic Hunter-Tilney — 2023-08-30
  96. 210MagazineThe Radiohead RacketRyan Kearney — 2016-05-31
  97. 211Radiohead: Kid A: Special Collectors EditionMitchum Rob — 25 August 2009
  98. 212Radiohead: A Moon Shaped Pool album reviewJayson Greene — 11 May 2016
  99. 214Thom Yorke15 August 2006
  100. 216NewsThom Yorke, free agentAnn Powers — 28 June 2006
  101. 221The First Time with Thom YorkeMatt Everitt — 11 March 2017
  102. 225Dancing in the Moonlight with RadioheadSimon Vozick-Levinson — MTV — 10 May 2016
  103. 227Watch: Radiohead – "Lotus Flower"Alex Young — 18 February 2011
  104. 233WTF with Marc Maron - Thom Yorke Interview from 35 minutesMarc Maron via youtube — 22 July 2013
  105. 234Journal2 + 2 = 5Martin Aston — August 2006
  106. 235Positively charged: Thom Yorke's 20 biggest influencesDaniel Kreps — 22 February 2013
  107. 236MagazineFlashback: Radiohead Cover Neil Young's 'On the Beach'Andy Greene — 2 August 2016
  108. 237MagazineThe dour and the gloryStephen Dalton — September 1997
  109. 238MagazineRadio dazePeter Paphides — 5 November 1997
  110. 241NewsScott Walker, experimental pop hero, dies aged 76Ben Beaumont-Thomas — 25 March 2019
  111. 242Radiohead on In Rainbows28 January 2008
  112. 245Fitter, Happier, More ProductiveLauren Zoric — 1 October 2000
  113. 247Interview with Radiohead's Thom YorkeCraig McLean — 2006-06-18
  114. 251Walking on thin iceSimon Reynolds — July 2001
  115. 252MagazineThe Searchers: Radiohead's unquiet revolutionAlex Ross — 21 August 2001
  116. 254The Golden Age of RadioheadMac Randall — 1 April 1998
  117. 255NewsRadioactiveChristopher John Farley — 23 October 2000
  118. 257MagazineRadiohead Says: Pay What You WantTyrangiel, Josh — 1 October 2007
  119. 258Interview: Thom YorkePlagenhoef, Scott — 16 August 2006
  120. 265Thom Yorke's solo albums are finally streaming on Spotify, which he famously hatesDerrick Rossignol — Uproxx Media Group — 8 December 2017
  121. 266Thom Yorke: why I'm a climate optimistThom Yorke — 23 March 2008
  122. 267Thom Yorke on board the Rainbow Warrior 3Louise Grey — 11 November 2011
  123. 268NewsRadiohead singer snubs Blair climate talksDavid Adam — 22 March 2006
  124. 269NewsRadiohead Pushes Festivals Like Daydream to Go GreenPetz Scholtus — Treehugger — 18 June 2008
  125. 270Thom Yorke Crashes Copenhagen Climate SummitAmrit Singh — 18 December 2009
  126. 271NewsRadiohead's Yorke sneaks into Copenhagen climate talksBBC News — 17 December 2009
  127. 272Thom yorke mesmerises cambridge corn exchangeColothan Scott — 26 February 2010
  128. 277MagazineHear Thom Yorke's chilly new song for GreenpeaceKory Grow — 16 October 2018
  129. 280Opinion: Thom Yorke on fair tradeThom Yorke — 8 September 2003
  130. 281NewsThe food fightLucy Siegle — 2004-11-28
  131. 284Occupy 20128 February 2012
  132. 296Radiohead: Hail to the Thief (Live Recordings 2003—2009)Molly Mary O’Brien — 15 August 2025
  133. 301MagazineThom Yorke Celebrates Obama Victory With Free TrackDaniel Kreps — 6 November 2008
  134. 306Thom Yorke on Brexit: 'Stop the bus... now'Robin Murray — 8 February 2019
  135. 311NewsThom Yorke's ex-partner, Rachel Owen, dies aged 48Alice Vincent — 20 December 2016
  136. 312Thom Yorke and Dajana Roncione are marriedMatthew Strauss — 23 September 2020
  137. 319In-depth interview with Thom YorkeBrian Draper — October 2004
  138. 321JournalThe evolutionary origin of the durophagous pelagic stingray ecomorphG. Marramà et al. — 2023
  139. 324Chicago Film Critics Association announces 2018 nomineesDominick Suzanne-Mayer et al. — 7 December 2018

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