Radiohead fan

Mark: Let me get this quote right… Jonny, a quote in an interview said: “We were never teenagers,” and I was thinking about that…

“It was a bright sunny Saturday morning in May 2000 when I opened my e-mail and saw a letter with the subject ‘Message for Paul Lansky.’ The letter began ‘My name is Jonny Greenwood, and I play and write music as a member [of the] UK band Radiohead.’ The letter went on to describe, quite apologetically, how a phrase from an ancient electronic piece of mine, mild und leise, had made its way into a song on the band’s new CD. Jonny had come across an old LP of the piece in a used-record shop on the band’s last tour of the USA and used it as source material during an improvisation session … He seemed quite anxious to assure me that they were not the sort to take things without asking, and went to some lengths to explain his musical interests and influences, which seemed to intersect in interesting ways with mine. He wondered how I would feel about the possible ‘…association with a [dread phrase] rock group… We are (I hope) as far from being a stereotypical rock group as it is possible to be. … I didn’t want us to remain an anonymous English group assuming they sample your music and let someone else deal with it’ … A few weeks later a delightful package arrived with several Radiohead CDs, another long letter from Jonny, including a picture of his analog synthesizers, a tape of the part of the improvisation session involving mild und leise, and ‘Idioteque’. I sat down and listened with great interest.”

“‘Thom has this amazing ability to affect the environment of emotions around him,’ Says Colin Greenwood, 32, who has known Yorke since they were both twelve, taking classical guitar lessons at Abingdon School near Oxford. Chris Hufford, one of Radiohead’s three managers, agrees. He describes Yorke as ‘incredibly charismatic. In the old days, when he entered a room and he was pissed off, everybody knew it. And he didn’t have to say anything.”

Interviewer: Just before I go, what’s been the most rock & roll moment of the band’s career?

Interviewer: When you first started out, the NME called you a ‘lily-livered excuse for a rock band’

“‘Thom has this amazing ability to affect the environment of emotions around him,’ Says Colin Greenwood, 32, who has known Yorke since they were both twelve, taking classical guitar lessons at Abingdon School near Oxford. Chris Hufford, one of Radiohead’s three managers, agrees. He describes Yorke as ‘incredibly charismatic. In the old days, when he entered a room and he was pissed off, everybody knew it. And he didn’t have to say anything.”

““He was quite distant during that. It was kind of odd. He was in orbit. His place was on the stage. And when he was off stage, he was not there at all. Occasionally, after a few drinks, he would be alright. But generally he was a little bit strange. Obviously now, I totally understand it.””

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