Radiohead

The five members of the band, Thom Yorke (*1968), Ed O'Brien (*1968), Colin Greenwood (*1969) Phil Selway (*1967) and Jonny Greenwood (*1971) met in 1985 at a private boys' school in Abingdon, just outside Oxford. They first called themselves "On A Friday". In 1991, they were signed to EMI Records and changed their name to Radohead at the label's request, inspired by the song Radio Head on the Talking Heads album True Stories. The debut EP Drill and the debut single Creep were initially only moderately successful, but after a re-release in 1993 Creep reached the Top 10 in the UK and the Top 40 in the USA and prepared the ground for the debut album Pablo Honey (1993). This was followed by the albums The Bends (1995) OK Computer (1997), Kid A (2000), Hail To The Thief (2003), In Rainbows (2007), The King of Limbs (2011) and A Moon Shaped Pool (2016).
OK Computer received the ‘Album of the Year’ award at the 1998 Grammy Awards, while Kid A and In Rainbows won the ‘Best Alternative Album’ award at the 2001 and 2009 Grammy Awards. In 2019, Radiohead was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland.