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In 1985 a 17-year-old Thom Yorke wandered into the music room at school and met Jonny Greenwood, a boy a couple of years below him, who was playing the drums. \u201cGet the double bass!\u201d Yorke said, and when Greenwood protested that he had no idea how to play said instrument, Yorke suggested, \u201cJust hit it!\u201d Three other friends from Abingdon, a private school in Oxfordshire, were roped in and that was that. Radiohead were born \u2014 40 years ago. \u201cReally?\u201d Yorke gasps. \u201cWe\u2019ve done it for a long time,\u201d Greenwood chips in. \u201cA bit too long,\u201d Yorke says, laughing. The frontman once seen as rock\u2019s most cantankerous seems remarkably at ease.<\/p>\n

He and Greenwood spent hours round each other\u2019s houses, absorbing music. \u201cThe Greenwood household were weirdos,\u201d Yorke says with a grin. \u201cThey listened to the Fall, Madness, Magazine.\u201d \u201cKid Creole and the Coconuts,\u201d Greenwood adds. And chez Yorke? \u201cREM,\u201d Greenwood says. \u201cJoy Division, Japan and a lot of Elvis Costello.\u201d Yorke looks at his friend. \u201cI had already decided this is what I wanted to do with my life when I was ten,\u201d he says. \u201cI was just lucky to find people who felt the same.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Radiohead, then called On a Friday, c1985. From left: Thom Yorke, Philip Selway, Ed O\u2019Brien and Colin Greenwood<\/p>\n

Over the course of a week earlier this month I met all of Radiohead. First I spent more than two hours with Yorke (57, vocals and various instruments) and Greenwood (53, even odder instruments) at their record label offices in Notting Hill. Then, in various members\u2019 clubs, studios and management offices, Ed O\u2019Brien (57, guitars, buttons), Philip Selway (58, drums) and Colin Greenwood (Jonny\u2019s older brother, 56, bass). Their team can\u2019t recall the last time they gave an interview as a band. <\/p>\n

\u2018How can you not be a Radiohead fan?\u2019<\/p>\n

Yorke is far from his public image. Curled up on a sofa, his grey hair shoulder-length, his clothes like those of an art student with a stylist, he can still be a champion scoffer, but mostly he is tender, funny, passionate \u2014 a man who, after a shaky start, has seemingly now embraced the joy of heading up a globe-trotting five-piece. Greenwood is quieter \u2014 the Dorian Gray of expansive alt-rock, hiding behind black hair that seems exactly the same as it was in the 1990s. He is a gentle soul; Yorke the restless one.<\/p>\n

\"Black<\/p>\n

Thom Yorke: \u2018It was, like, let\u2019s halt now before we walk off this cliff\u2019<\/p>\n

ALEX LAKE FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES MAGAZINE<\/p>\n

They are five very different men, like a box of Quality Street, who together make up easily my favourite band for the past 30 years. I\u2019m hardly alone. Leonardo DiCaprio says: \u201cHow can you not be a Radiohead fan?\u201d Billie Eilish has covered them; Katy Perry sung about them. When asked who his favourite groups are, Brad Pitt once said: \u201cRadiohead, Radiohead and Radiohead.\u201d In 2009 the Nasa astronaut Mike Massimino took a copy of the band\u2019s In Rainbows CD to play in orbit, and sent back a photograph and certificate to say it had travelled at 15,800mph. \u201cI\u2019ve got that at home,\u201d Colin Greenwood says. \u201cI like to point it out to the kids.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 Radiohead are back \u2014 fitter, happier and better than before<\/a><\/p>\n

They were signed to EMI in 1991 and became very big, very fast. Their debut album, Pablo Honey, in 1993 spawned the grungy hit Creep, while The Bends, two years later, made their 1990s guitar peers seem rather meat and potatoes. The accolades rained down after the millennial angst of OK Computer \u2014 both Q magazine and Channel 4 have declared it the greatest album ever. It even featured singalongs in Karma Police and No Surprises. Then, in 2000, they released the electronica-inspired Kid A, which paved the way for a succession of records that challenged their fan base \u2014 but only made it bigger. The largest demographic for Radiohead on streaming services these days is 15 to 23-year-olds. Last month, when they announced their first live dates since 2018<\/a> \u2014 a string of 20 arena shows in Madrid, Bologna, London, Copenhagen and Berlin \u2014 the fevered rush led to the tickets being snapped up in minutes.<\/p>\n

\"Radiohead<\/p>\n

Radiohead in New York in 1993, shortly after the release of their debut single, Creep<\/p>\n

GETTY IMAGES<\/p>\n

And they have gone viral on TikTok. The elegiac Let Down, one of the more obscure tracks on OK Computer, entered the Billboard Hot 100 in August, 28 years after it was released. \u201cI find that especially bizarre,\u201d Yorke says. \u201cBecause I fought tooth and nail for it not to be on the record, but Ed was, like, \u2018If it\u2019s not, I\u2019m leaving.\u2019 \u201d It is, O\u2019Brien says, the \u201cemotional heart\u201d of OK Computer. \u201cStill, I was astonished,\u201d he admits. \u201cSo I told my kids, who are 18 and 21, and they said, \u2018What do you expect? Teenagers are depressed. It\u2019s depressing music!\u2019 \u201d (He quickly adds that it is also a very beautiful song, and his children agree.)<\/p>\n

Every band member has a story of cross-generational appreciation. \u201cI was at the station the other day,\u201d Selway says, \u201cand schoolboys were playing Everything in Its Right Place [from Kid A] on a piano. Then they played Bohemian Rhapsody.\u201d <\/p>\n

Last year Colin Greenwood signed a copy of his book of Radiohead photos for a Native American teenager in San Francisco who had travelled eight hours on the bus to meet him. \u201cIt is overwhelming,\u201d he says sweetly. \u201cThis music has very little to do with us any more \u2014 it has become something we could never imagine. Most of the time I was just in a state of giddy excitement to be abroad with my friends.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018I needed to stop. I hadn\u2019t given myself time to grieve\u2019<\/p>\n

During the band\u2019s seven-year break O\u2019Brien and Selway have made solo albums, while Colin Greenwood has played bass for Nick Cave. Yorke and Jonny Greenwood worked together on three albums for their spin-off project, the Smile \u2014 Radiohead with gnarlier riffs \u2014 while Yorke mixed the band\u2019s songs with Shakespeare for a play, Hamlet: Hail to the Thief, and curated an exhibition at the Ashmolean in Oxford with the artist and longtime Radiohead collaborator Stanley Donwood. Jonny Greenwood also wrote the soundtrack for the new Paul Thomas Anderson movie, One Battle After Another. Taylor Swift praised the score. Yorke has seen it twice. Greenwood is already plotting his next project with the director.<\/p>\n

But now it is Radiohead again. Last summer the band met for rehearsals in London, to test the waters. They started with the first track from The Bends and tore through their albums in chronological order. Their last gig was in Philadelphia on August 1, 2018, when their children were young enough to be excited about the bowls of free sweets backstage. Why has it been so long? \u201cI guess the wheels came off a bit, so we had to stop,\u201d Yorke says. \u201cThere were a lot of elements. The shows felt great but it was, like, let\u2019s halt now before we walk off this cliff.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I needed to stop anyway,\u201d Yorke continues. \u201cBecause I hadn\u2019t really given myself time to grieve.\u201d In December 2016 Rachel Owen, Yorke\u2019s first wife from whom he had recently amicably separated, died of cancer aged 48. They have two children together, Noah, 24, and Agnes, 21. Yorke has since married Dajana Roncione, 41, an Italian actress. \u201c[My grief] was coming out in ways that made me think, I need to take this away.\u201d Was music a salve? \u201cYes, obviously. Music can be a way to find meaning in things and the idea of having to stop it, even when it makes sense to, because you\u2019re not well? Even at my lowest point? I can\u2019t. I need something that I can hold on to. But there have been points in my life where I have looked for solace in music and played the piano, but it literally hurts. Physically. The music hurts, because you\u2019re going through trauma.\u201d <\/p>\n

\"Suspiria<\/p>\n

Yorke with his wife, Dajana Roncione<\/p>\n

EYEVINE<\/p>\n

O\u2019Brien is the most forthright on the band\u2019s pause \u2014 and was the most reticent about the possibility of a comeback. \u201cI was nervous going into rehearsals because I was effectively over Radiohead,\u201d he says. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t great on the last round. I enjoyed the gigs but hated the rest. We felt disconnected, f***ing spent. It happens. This has been our whole life \u2014 what else is there? Look, success has a funny effect on people \u2014 I just didn\u2019t want to do it any more. And I told them that.<\/p>\n

\u201cI went through a very long dark night of the soul,\u201d O\u2019Brien continues. \u201cI had a deep depression. I hit the bottom in 2021. And one of the things that was lovely coming out of it was realising how much I love these guys. I met them when I was 17 and I have gone from thinking I can\u2019t see myself doing it again to realising that, you know, we do have some stellar songs.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

Ed O\u2019Brien: \u2018I was nervous going into rehearsals. I was effectively over Radiohead. It wasn\u2019t great on the last round\u2019<\/p>\n

ALEX LAKE FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES MAGAZINE<\/p>\n

I mention the band\u2019s extremely active and now incredibly excited Reddit fan page to Yorke and Jonny Greenwood \u2014 a group so dedicated that they discovered a new limited liability partnership set up by the band on Companies House this year called RHEUK25 that convinced the diehards a tour was likely. \u201cPeople love Radiohead,\u201d is how Greenwood sums up the fans, beaming. \u201cSo do I. And the songs we made. So when people get passionate, they\u2019re just sharing our slightly nerdy obsession. We feel it too.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yorke is quiet; something quite clearly on his mind. \u201cI have a very conflicted relationship to that sort of energy,\u201d he says a little cautiously. \u201cBecause I do not like having stuff projected on to me \u2014 which is ridiculous, considering my choice of work.\u201d He continues on the theme of fame: \u201cThere are incredible upsides. When people talk to you about music? It\u2019s affirming. But I\u2019m not a fan of people who come up and say, \u2018Can I have a photo?\u2019 \u2018Well \u2026 no.\u2019 All the band have it to an extent, but I get it more extreme and it\u2019s bad when even my wife and kids will be watching people out in public and go, \u2018Careful with that one.\u2019 That\u2019s a weird way to live and I am very used to it, but it alarms me how protective my kids feel they need to be of me. And of themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018It\u2019s a purity test, a low-level Arthur Miller witch-hunt\u2019<\/p>\n

In 2017 Radiohead played an open-air show at Park Hayarkon in Tel Aviv \u2014 a decision that infuriated the Palestinian pressure movement Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) and led to the band being vociferously criticised by, among others, the director Ken Loach and Roger Waters, once of Pink Floyd. Last year at a solo show in Melbourne, captured in a video clip that went viral, Yorke was heckled about the war in Gaza \u2014 \u201cHow could you be silent?\u201d The singer replied, \u201cCome up here and say that \u2026 You want to piss on everybody\u2019s night?\u201d and stormed off stage. He returned for a brief encore. In May he posted a lengthy statement on Instagram: \u201cSome guy shouting at me from the dark didn\u2019t really seem like the best moment to discuss the unfolding humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza. Afterwards I remained in shock that my supposed silence was somehow being taken as complicity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jonny Greenwood is married to an Israeli artist, Sharona Katan, and has worked for many years with the Israeli musician Dudu Tassa, most recently on the 2023 album Jarak Qaribak (\u201cYour neighbour is your friend\u201d), which features artists from Iraq, Egypt, Syria, Tunisia and Palestine. Tassa played a show for the Israel Defense Forces in November 2023, he says due to the \u201cimmense fear\u201d after the October 7 Hamas attacks, when he wanted to \u201cbring some comfort\u201d to the soldiers who had gone \u201cto defend my family\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"Black<\/p>\n

Jonny Greenwood: \u2018The left look for traitors and it\u2019s depressing that we are the closest they can get\u2019<\/p>\n

ALEX LAKE FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES MAGAZINE<\/p>\n

Earlier this year activists forced the cancellation of gigs Greenwood and Tassa were due to play in Bristol and London. The duo also performed in Tel Aviv last year, a gig that led BDS to call for a boycott of the new Radiohead tour. \u201cRadiohead continues with its complicit silence, while one band member repeatedly crosses our picket line,\u201d BDS said. <\/p>\n

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Jonny Greenwood, far right, performs with the Israeli musician Dudu Tassa, far left, in Tel Aviv in May 2024<\/p>\n

LIOR KETER<\/p>\n

\u201cThis wakes me up at night,\u201d Yorke says. \u201cThey\u2019re telling me what it is that I\u2019ve done with my life, and what I should do next, and that what I think is meaningless. People want to take what I\u2019ve done that means so much to millions of people and wipe me out. But this is not theirs to take from me \u2014 and I don\u2019t consider I\u2019m a bad person.<\/p>\n

\u201cA few times recently I\u2019ve had \u2018Free Palestine!\u2019 shouted at me on the street. I talked to a guy. His shtick was, \u2018You have a platform, a duty and must distance yourself from Jonny.\u2019 But I said, \u2018You and me, standing on the street in London, shouting at each other? Well, the true criminals, who should be in front of the ICC [International Criminal Court], are laughing at us squabbling among ourselves in the public realm and on social media \u2014 while they just carry on with impunity, murdering people.\u2019 It\u2019s an expression of impotency. It\u2019s a purity test, low-level Arthur Miller witch-hunt. I utterly respect the dismay but it\u2019s very odd to be on the receiving end.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet Yorke has been politically outspoken in the past \u2014 he wrote a song, Harrowdown Hill, about the death of the government weapons expert Dr David Kelly, and lent his name to campaigns for a free Tibet and Friends of the Earth. \u201cWhen I got involved with the Climate Change Act, though, I spent two weeks obsessively reading up on it. And I mention that because now you don\u2019t need to be an expert. We just need an opinion, the right opinion, and for you to keep on repeating that opinion whenever we ask.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Thom Yorke performs at a Free Tibet rally in Washington in front of the US Capitol, 1998<\/p>\n

AVALON<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the embodiment of the left,\u201d Greenwood says. \u201cThe left look for traitors, the right for converts and it\u2019s depressing that we are the closest they can get.\u201d He sighs. He is already working on another record with Israeli and Middle Eastern musicians. \u201cAnd it\u2019s nuts I feel frightened to admit that. Yet that feels progressive to me \u2014 booing at a concert does not strike me as brave or progressive.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut you are whitewashing genocide, mate,\u201d Yorke deadpans. \u201cAnd so am I, apparently, by sitting next to you on this sofa.\u201d<\/p>\n

Greenwood continues: \u201cAnd, yes, some people just call [my work] ineffectual, hippie, wishy-washy. And I sort of see their point. But when what I do with the musicians is described as sinister or devious? Well, I\u2019ve done this for 20 years.<\/p>\n

\u201cLook, I have been to antigovernment protests in Israel and you cannot move for all the \u2018F*** Ben-Gvir\u2019 stickers.\u201d (Itamar Ben-Gvir is Israel\u2019s minister of national security.) \u201cI spend a lot of time there with family and cannot just say, \u2018I\u2019m not making music with you f***ers because of the government.\u2019 It makes no sense to me. I have no loyalty \u2014 or respect, obviously \u2014 to their government, but I have both for the artists born there.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u2018We haven\u2019t spoken to one another much. And that\u2019s OK\u2019<\/p>\n

I ask about the Tel Aviv gig in 2017. \u201cI was in the hotel,\u201d Yorke says, \u201cwhen some guy, clearly connected high up, approaches me to thank me. It horrified me, truly, that the gig was being hijacked. So I get it \u2014 sort of. At the time I thought the gig made sense, but as soon as I got there and that guy came up? Get me the f*** out.\u201d<\/p>\n

So would he play Israel now? (I ask this question before the ceasefire was agreed.) \u201cAbsolutely not. I wouldn\u2019t want to be 5,000 miles anywhere near the Netanyahu regime but Jonny has roots there. So I get it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI would also politely disagree with Thom,\u201d Greenwood says. \u201cI would argue that the government is more likely to use a boycott and say, \u2018Everyone hates us \u2014 we should do exactly what we want.\u2019 Which is far more dangerous.\u201d <\/p>\n

Greenwood looks down. \u201cIt\u2019s nuts,\u201d he says. \u201cThe only thing that I\u2019m ashamed of is that I\u2019ve dragged Thom and the others into this mess \u2014 but I\u2019m not ashamed of working with Arab and Jewish musicians. I can\u2019t apologise for that.\u201d<\/p>\n

I ask if they are concerned about the tour being targeted. \u201cAre you f***ing joking?\u201d Yorke says, laughing. (He is concerned.) \u201cBut they don\u2019t care about us. It\u2019s about getting something on Instagram of something dramatic happening and, no, I don\u2019t think Israel should do Eurovision. But I don\u2019t think Eurovision should do Eurovision. So what do I know?\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Radiohead<\/p>\n

The band perform at the O2 arena in London, 2012<\/p>\n

REDFERNS<\/p>\n

As for the rest of the band, whom I meet separately, O\u2019Brien has posted in support of the Free Palestine cause on social media. He says of the Tel Aviv gig: \u201cWe should have played Ramallah in the West Bank as well.\u201d Was he disappointed by his bandmates\u2019 silence? \u201cI am not going to judge anybody,\u201d he says. \u201cBut the brutal truth is that, while we were once all tight, we haven\u2019t really spoken to one another much \u2014 and that\u2019s OK.\u201d<\/p>\n

Selway sums up the turmoil: \u201cWhat BDS are asking of us is impossible. They want us to distance ourselves from Jonny, but that would mean the end of the band and Jonny is coming from a very principled place. But it\u2019s odd to be ostracised by artists we generally felt quite aligned to.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Black<\/p>\n

Philip Selway: \u2018They want us to distance ourselves from Jonny. It\u2019s odd to be ostracised by artists we felt quite aligned to\u2019<\/p>\n

ALEX LAKE FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES MAGAZINE<\/p>\n

Colin Greenwood recalls September 11, 2001. Radiohead were in Berlin for a gig that night and he remembers some Americans in the audience. They started to shout at Yorke: \u201cSay something!\u201d Greenwood just remembers the singer eventually saying: \u201cWhat do you want me to say?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018Sometimes we forgot to put in a chorus\u2019<\/p>\n

In the summer of 1991, Colin Greenwood was 22 and working at the Our Price record shop in Oxford when his bank manager called. Later, at the Abingdon branch of NatWest, he was yelled at about his \u00a3800 overdraft. \u201cWhat are your plans, Mr Greenwood?\u201d The bassist had gone straight to Cambridge University to study English, while the other three had taken gap years and his brother, Jonny, was completing his A-levels. \u201cSo I said, \u2018When my friends graduate we will try and get a record deal.\u2019 She gave me a massive bollocking.\u201d <\/p>\n

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Colin Greenwood: \u2018I would give discs out to handymen. \u201cThanks for your troubles, my good man\u201d\u2018<\/p>\n

ALEX LAKE FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES MAGAZINE<\/p>\n

A few weeks later Radiohead signed a deal with EMI. Greenwood went back to the Abingdon NatWest dragging the band\u2019s manager with him. \u201cHe said, \u2018Hello, I\u2019m representing Mr Greenwood, as he\u2019s an EMI recording artist with a five-album deal, and we\u2019re here to close his account.\u2019 It is so petty and pathetic! But speaks to that self-confidence kids have \u2014 because we didn\u2019t know better.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was that self-confidence that led Radiohead to where they are today. Take, for instance, Idioteque from Kid A. It is a song that started with a 50-minute synth collage by Jonny Greenwood that Yorke took 40 seconds from, but is now played at edgier wedding discos. \u201cI don\u2019t think people do it enough,\u201d Yorke agrees when I tell him that Radiohead, more than anyone, introduced me, as a teenager, to new, stranger sounds. Greenwood glowingly mentions the Russian composer Alfred Schnittke. (I listen to Piano Music, Volume 1 on the way home. Dissonant, pretty, very Radiohead.) <\/p>\n

However, in the early 2000s \u2026 \u201cWhen we got weird?\u201d Yorke interrupts. Well, yes. Was that an attempt to leave behind bands such as Travis who had mimicked the simpler acoustic parts of Radiohead\u2019s sound? \u201cThat\u2019s too self-reflective,\u201d he says. \u201cFor us it was a natural progression, but I got sick of saying that so I gave up.\u201d So there was never a wilful aversion to simplicity? \u201cNo. Even if something is complex, when you listen to it you should not feel that way. You should feel like it is the only natural solution to that song, otherwise it\u2019s some weird flex, as my son would say.\u201d He smiles. \u201cBut yes, sometimes we forgot to put in a chorus.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Radiohead appear on South Park, 2001<\/p>\n

COMEDY CENTRAL<\/p>\n

\u2018I gave away my platinum discs\u2019<\/p>\n

The forthcoming gigs, starting in Madrid on November 4, will be a celebration \u2014 of five anti-ego rock gods with a strong whiff of mundanity about them. For while O\u2019Brien admits to \u201cdoing a lot of charlie on the OK Computer tour\u201d, the next most debauched story is of him taking magic mushrooms at the Grammy awards in 2001.<\/p>\n

\u2022 My dream Radiohead setlist for their 2025 comeback tour<\/a><\/p>\n

Colin Greenwood tells me about the time he and Yorke visited Allied Carpets to choose flooring for the studio before the recording sessions for Kid A. He compares the band\u2019s musical expansion to the changes in how his bandmates take their tea. \u201cNot everyone takes dairy these days,\u201d he grumbles. \u201cPeople talk about electronica or contemporary classical, incorporating those elements into music. But try incorporating almond milk into the tea round.\u201d When he didn\u2019t have cash to hand, Greenwood gave away his commemorative discs. \u201cI slightly regret that,\u201d he says. \u201cBut I would have people over doing odd jobs and I\u2019d give them the discs. \u2018Here\u2019s a Creep platinum disc \u2014 thanks for your troubles, my good man.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n

For the imminent tour Yorke sent round a list of 65 tracks that Radiohead might play. \u201cWhich we\u2019re all frantically learning,\u201d Jonny Greenwood says. \u201cThen Thom will turn up and say, let\u2019s not do half.\u201d Yorke, O\u2019Brien and Selway are the setlist committee, which decides what will be played hours ahead of a gig. Unlike this summer\u2019s Oasis tour, Radiohead will not play the exact same tracks each night. \u201cWe have too many songs,\u201d Yorke says with a shrug. O\u2019Brien puts it another way: \u201cWe\u2019re contrary bastards.\u201d <\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

ALEX LAKE FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES MAGAZINE<\/p>\n

The band will also be performing in the round, in the middle of the arena floors. \u201cWe\u2019ve actually done it once before,\u201d Selway says, \u201cin 1993, in Canada, opening for Ned\u2019s Atomic Dustbin.\u201d Colin Greenwood is thrilled that, for the first time, each member will have their own dressing room. He plans to decorate his with AI-generated pictures of him with world leaders. \u201cMandela, Merkel, Thomas Cromwell \u2026\u201d <\/p>\n

And finally, two big questions. Will there ever be any new Radiohead songs? \u201cI don\u2019t know,\u201d Jonny Greenwood says. \u201cWe haven\u2019t thought past the tour.\u201d Yorke smiles again. \u201cI\u2019m just stunned we got this far,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Yorke stands up to pace around the room, very ready to call time on our interview and meet his wife. And so what songs will definitely be getting an outing on the tour? \u201cThere are no surprises,\u201d Yorke says, sighing at his own dad joke. He laughs. \u201cGod, are we at this point?\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 1985 a 17-year-old Thom Yorke wandered into the music room at school and met Jonny Greenwood, a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":{"0":"post-239894","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}