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Guitar World
Guitar World
Entertainment
Jackson Maxwell

“Every time I picked up a guitar I got the horrors”: Radiohead were the world's most talked-about guitar band. Then they burned the rulebook, and made the instrument sound like no-one else had before

(from left) Ed O'Brien, Thom Yorke, and Jonny Greenwood perform onstage with Radiohead in 2000.

“Every time I picked up a guitar I got the horrors.”

Speaking to Q in a 2000 interview, Radiohead’s Thom Yorke was reflecting on the Herculean task of writing the material for what would become the band’s fourth album, Kid A.

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