Colin Greenwood's intimate portraits of Radiohead capture the band at work and play

Black and white pictures of band.

History, alas, does not record the debut concert by the artists future-ly known as Radiohead beyond the sketchy memories of their bass player: 'A drunken sixth-form party thrown at a rugby club in west Oxford, with Ed [O’Brien, guitarist] and Thom [Yorke, frontman] and a drum machine. The first gig with my brother [Jonny Greenwood, guitarist] was at the underground Rock Garden, now a gleaming glass-and-brick Apple store in Covent Garden. Jonny didn’t play guitar then, just the keyboards and a penny whistle.'

Luckily, the band (with the addition of drummer Phil Selway) didn’t let their boozy peers put them off, Colin Greenwood became better at documenting the life and times of the greatest British guitar band of the late 20^th and early 21^st centuries, and his brother ditched the penny whistle.