{"id":598632,"date":"2026-05-22T20:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T20:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/598632\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T20:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T20:40:09","slug":"thom-yorke-debuts-new-song-space-walk-at-ivor-novello-awards-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/598632\/","title":{"rendered":"Thom Yorke Debuts New Song &#8216;Space Walk&#8217; at Ivor Novello Awards: Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harry Styles, presenting to the Radiohead singer, also reveals he lost his virginity to \u201cthe intro\u201d of the band\u2019s \u201cTalk Show Host\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/thom-yorke\/\" id=\"auto-tag_thom-yorke\" data-tag=\"thom-yorke\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thom Yorke<\/a> debuted a new song titled \u201cSpace Walk\u201d Thursday at the Ivor Novello Awards, where the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/radiohead\/\" id=\"auto-tag_radiohead\" data-tag=\"radiohead\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Radiohead<\/a> singer received the prestigious Academy Fellowship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe singer was handed the award by surprise presenter Harry Styles, who revealed that he lost his virginity while listening to Radiohead\u2019s \u201cTalk Show Host\u201d; Styles then quipped, \u201cthe intro of \u2018Talk Show Host.&#8217;\u201d \u201cThom Yorke has always had a way with words,\u201d Styles said, adding that Radiohead is his \u201cfavorite band.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tYorke then performed his solo piano track \u201cSpace Walk\u201d as well as an acoustic rendition of Radiohead\u2019s \u201cJigsaw Falling Into Place.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tIn his own acceptance speech (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/harry-styles-says-he-lost-his-virginity-to-radioheads-talk-show-host-check-out-his-full-speech-in-tribute-to-thom-yorke-at-the-ivor-novellos-2026-3946807\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">via NME<\/a>), Yorke chided the current state of the music industry and its over-reliance on streaming services and playlists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cA lot of lip service is paid to new music with self-serving playlists, and to the idea of a vital music scene,\u201d Yorke said. \u201cBut there is a refusal to offer even a semblance of a sustainable revenue source for the majority of musicians. And they continue the nasty fucking opaque accounting tricks that major labels were doing in the Nineties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tYorke continued, \u201cSo I guess I\u2019d like to provide a quick reminder to the top of the industry and streaming services: Pull your finger out. Where are you gonna get your next juicy back catalogues from, eh? This industry will die and arseholes with it, if all you do is devalue the next generation of artists and their fans. Just remember: without us, you ain\u2019t shit!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tEarlier this year, Radiohead\u2019s Ed O\u2019Brien (accidentally?) let slip that Yorke would likely release a solo album in 2026 following a three-LP run with the Smile; it\u2019s unclear whether \u201cSpace Walk\u201d is destined for that upcoming album, Yorke\u2019s first solo LP since 2019\u2019s Anima.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harry Styles, presenting to the Radiohead singer, also reveals he lost his virginity to \u201cthe intro\u201d of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,27498,27500,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-598632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-radiohead","tag-thom-yorke","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}