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Returning home, he bought the entire back catalogue of the Warp imprint and began to immerse himself in the fractured electronic works of Autechre, LFO and Aphex Twin. Melody, he said, had become вЂњpure embarrassmentвЂќ. The biggest stumbling block was his voice. Fans later pored over the pages upon pages of words he uploaded to the increasingly labyrinthine Radiohead website, from which one tiny phrase (OptimisticвЂ™s вЂњbig fish eat the little onesвЂќ from a page about вЂњbanquets for the investorsвЂќ, for example) might find its way into a song. вЂњIвЂ™d start writing a song, stop after 16 bars, hide it away in a drawer.вЂќ He would later characterise this as writerвЂ™s block, but it seems almost as though he had the opposite problem: the words were coming out, but in long and oftenВ unintelligible screeds. вЂњEvery time I picked up a guitar I got the horrors,вЂќ he admitted in 2000.

Yorke, who had suffered a near-breakdown on the road, spent much of his downtime paralysed by a kind of post-traumatic stress disorder and struggled to bring any idea to completion. вЂњThere were other guitar bands out there trying to do similar things. вЂњAfter the OK Computer tour we felt we had toВ change everything,вЂќ bassist Colin Greenwood later recalled. It didnвЂ™t help that a whole army of bands had begun to emerge whose main musical touchstones appeared to be The Bends and Jeff BuckleyвЂ™s Grace. вЂњI didnвЂ™t recognise myself, and wasnвЂ™t interested in what it was that we were supposed to have done.вЂќ Having spent a solid year performing intricate and detailed songs such as Let Down and Paranoid Android, Radiohead had no desire to make or tour the same kind of record ever again.

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вЂњI ended up in a place where I didnвЂ™t want to be,вЂќ Thom told Gijsbert Kamer of the Dutch TV station 3VOOR12. Yorke would later describe Grant GeeвЂ™s film of the tour, Meeting People Is Easy, as a warning to younger bands who might aspire to Radiohead-style success even mild-mannered guitarist Ed OвЂ™Brien said the tour had turned him into вЂњa sort of non-humanвЂќ. This is the story of how Radiohead almost disappeared completely вЂ“ and then came back with the greatest album of the 21st Century.Д«y the time the OK Computer/Against Demons tour came to a close in April 1998, after 11 months and 105 performances, Radiohead were a band on the brink: sick of their sound, sick of their songs, sick of each other.

For now, Thom clings to the mantra given to him by his close confidante, REM frontman Michael Stipe: вЂњIвЂ™m not here, this isnвЂ™t happening.вЂќ Over the course of the next year, Yorke and company will come perilously close вЂ“ not for the first time, nor the last вЂ“ to losing it completely under the strain of travelling, performing, and answering a daily barrage of questions about how it feels to be the saviours of rockвЂ¦ and whether or not they spoke to Calvin Klein at last nightвЂ™s show. It should be a crowning moment вЂ“ a celebration of an album already being hailed as a modern classic вЂ“ but for some members of the band, particularly Thom Yorke, the weight of expectation is beginning to tell. Four days after the release of OK Computer, and a week prior to their landmark performance at Glastonbury, Radiohead are preparing to play the biggest show of their career to date at the RDS Arena.

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