That “kicking and screaming Gucci little piggy” in ‘Paranoid Android’ was a woman Yorke encountered in a bar, off her box on the old Columbian. Once more on ‘Lucky’, shiny-domed arbiter of ambience Brian Eno – who commissioned the track for Warchild – said it was “the most beautiful song I’ve heard for a long, long time”.ġ3. Well, it was never going to be S Club 7 levels of arm-linking joy, was it?ġ2. ‘Lucky’ did what it said on the tin – expressed thanks for the position the band were in after ‘The Bends’ and celebrated all being in it together, everything clicking, albeit on the edge of the abyss. Well, you’d need a lot of time on your hands.ġ1. A “source close to” Thom Yorke said how surprised he was at how long it took everyone to work this out. The method is, largely, to alternate between the albums, and the tracks are said to merge into one another. The album is apparently designed to be played in tandem with ‘In Rainbows’, released 10 years later. Those 1s and 0s have bled into many theories, such as…ġ0. A working title for the album was ‘Your Home May Be At Risk If You Do Not Keep Up Payments’.ĩ. It’s Fred Cooper, the synthesized voice from Apple Macintosh’s SimpleText application, whose roboticized tones also give Professor Hawking the power of speech.Ĩ. ‘Fitter Happier’ is not recited by Stephen Hawking – but it might as well be. A (one) drink-fuelled binge turned into a jam session that ended with three songs being stitched together to form the post-prog ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ we all sway, headbang and raise lighters aloft to.ħ. Colin Greenwood says the band drank vodka and orange before they recorded ‘Paranoid Android’.
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