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How Radiohead single Creep became a 90s classic despite being 'deleted' by their label

One of the biggest songs of 1993 came from a then-unheralded Oxford band named Radiohead.

Creep was a monster that charted around the world, gave a British act a rare hit in the United States, and became so big it almost destroyed Radiohead before they really got started.

But for a song that would come to dominate radio and TV around the world for much of 1993, Creep was surprisingly a huge flop on release.

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