![]() ![]() And as Radiohead progressed, he became increasingly adventurous, helping to stretch the vocabulary of rock music to its breaking point, integrating elements of electronic, avant-garde classical, and jazz into a conventional guitar-bass-drums setup. (The band was originally called On a Friday-named for the day they used the school’s music room to rehearse.) With his claustrophobic outlook and high, fretful falsetto, he became an unlikely star, an ambassador of alienation. ![]() Born in 1968 and raised primarily in Oxfordshire, England, Yorke started playing music when he was a child, forming what would become Radiohead while at boarding school in the mid-’80s. Thom Yorke might be the definitive frontman of the turn-of-the-millennium, an artist who managed to transform feelings of collective anxiety into anthems you could-at least now and then-sing along with.
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