Thom Yorke
Thomas Edward Yorke (born 7 October, 1968 in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, England) is best known as the lead singer of the English alternative rock band Radiohead, but he also has a solo career and is also a frontman of the supergroup Atoms for Peace.
Career:
He mainly plays electric guitar, acoustic guitar and piano, but has also played drums and bass guitar (notably during the Kid A and Amnesiac Radiohead sessions).
His debut album The Eraser was released on July 10th 2006 in the UK and onJuly 11th in the US. Read Full BioThomas Edward Yorke (born 7 October, 1968 in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, England) is best known as the lead singer of the English alternative rock band Radiohead, but he also has a solo career and is also a frontman of the supergroup Atoms for Peace.
Career:
He mainly plays electric guitar, acoustic guitar and piano, but has also played drums and bass guitar (notably during the Kid A and Amnesiac Radiohead sessions).
His debut album The Eraser was released on July 10th 2006 in the UK and onJuly 11th in the US. Two singles were released with the album, Harrowdown Hill and Analyse.
The song Black Swan was used as the end theme for the 2006 film adaptation of Philip K. Dick's novel A Scanner Darkly and became a successful hit on American alternative radio in the summer of the same year. Song Analyse was also used at the end credits of the film The Prestige. That year also saw the release of a Japan-only EP Spitting Feathers, which collected together five b-sides from the Analyze and Harrowdown Hill singles.
A collection of remixes from The Eraser from such electronic luminaries as Burial, Four Tet, Modeselektor, Various Production and Surgeon were released as MP3 files initially in 2007, followed by a series of limited 12" in 2008. These were eventually released on CD as The Eraser Rmxs album.
In 2009, Yorke contributed a new song, Hearing Damage, to the soundtrack for The Twilight Saga: New Moon.
Discography:
- The Eraser (2006)
- Tomorrow's Modern Boxes (2014)
- Suspiria (Soundtrack) (2018)
- ANIMA (2019).
Personal Life:
As a child, Yorke underwent five surgical operations to correct a paralysed left eye he had had since birth. He has claimed that the last surgery was "botched," giving him his characteristic drooping eyelid.
He has one brother, Andy, of the band the Unbelievable Truth.
Yorke lived in central Oxford with his partner, Rachel Owen, a printmaker who hold a doctorate in art history, and their two children, Noah, born in 2001 (to whom the Radiohead album Amnesiac was dedicated) and Agnes, born 2004 (to whom Yorke dedicated The Eraser).
In August 2015, the couple announced they had separated amicably. Owen died of cancer on 18 December 2016, aged 48. Yorke is in a relationship with Italian actress Dajana Roncione now.
Thom Yorke is also heavily involved with Friends of the Earth and helped launch their Big Ask campaign. He also played a Big Ask benefit gig at the Koko club in London, England.
Career:
He mainly plays electric guitar, acoustic guitar and piano, but has also played drums and bass guitar (notably during the Kid A and Amnesiac Radiohead sessions).
His debut album The Eraser was released on July 10th 2006 in the UK and onJuly 11th in the US. Read Full BioThomas Edward Yorke (born 7 October, 1968 in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, England) is best known as the lead singer of the English alternative rock band Radiohead, but he also has a solo career and is also a frontman of the supergroup Atoms for Peace.
Career:
He mainly plays electric guitar, acoustic guitar and piano, but has also played drums and bass guitar (notably during the Kid A and Amnesiac Radiohead sessions).
His debut album The Eraser was released on July 10th 2006 in the UK and onJuly 11th in the US. Two singles were released with the album, Harrowdown Hill and Analyse.
The song Black Swan was used as the end theme for the 2006 film adaptation of Philip K. Dick's novel A Scanner Darkly and became a successful hit on American alternative radio in the summer of the same year. Song Analyse was also used at the end credits of the film The Prestige. That year also saw the release of a Japan-only EP Spitting Feathers, which collected together five b-sides from the Analyze and Harrowdown Hill singles.
A collection of remixes from The Eraser from such electronic luminaries as Burial, Four Tet, Modeselektor, Various Production and Surgeon were released as MP3 files initially in 2007, followed by a series of limited 12" in 2008. These were eventually released on CD as The Eraser Rmxs album.
In 2009, Yorke contributed a new song, Hearing Damage, to the soundtrack for The Twilight Saga: New Moon.
Discography:
- The Eraser (2006)
- Tomorrow's Modern Boxes (2014)
- Suspiria (Soundtrack) (2018)
- ANIMA (2019).
Personal Life:
As a child, Yorke underwent five surgical operations to correct a paralysed left eye he had had since birth. He has claimed that the last surgery was "botched," giving him his characteristic drooping eyelid.
He has one brother, Andy, of the band the Unbelievable Truth.
Yorke lived in central Oxford with his partner, Rachel Owen, a printmaker who hold a doctorate in art history, and their two children, Noah, born in 2001 (to whom the Radiohead album Amnesiac was dedicated) and Agnes, born 2004 (to whom Yorke dedicated The Eraser).
In August 2015, the couple announced they had separated amicably. Owen died of cancer on 18 December 2016, aged 48. Yorke is in a relationship with Italian actress Dajana Roncione now.
Thom Yorke is also heavily involved with Friends of the Earth and helped launch their Big Ask campaign. He also played a Big Ask benefit gig at the Koko club in London, England.
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Black Swan
Thom Yorke Lyrics
What will grow crooked, you can't make straight
It's the price that you gotta pay
Do yourself a favor and pack you bags
Buy a ticket and get on the train
Buy a ticket and get on the train
Cause this is fucked up, fucked up
Cause this is fucked up, fucked up
People get crushed like biscuit crumbs
And laid down in the bitumen
You have tried your best to please everyone
But it just isn't happening
No, it just isn't happening
And it's fucked up, fucked up
And this is fucked up, fucked up
This your blind spot, blind spot
It should be obvious, but it's not.
But it isn't, but it isn't
You cannot kick start a dead horse
You just crush yourself and walk away
I don't care what the future holds
Cause I'm right here and I'm today
With your fingers you can touch me
I'm your black swan, black swan
But I made it to the top, made it to the top
This is fucked up, fucked up
You are fucked up, fucked up
This is fucked up, fucked up
Be your black swan, black swan
I'm for spare parts, broken up
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: BRAD GERMAIN, IAN ALEXANDER SMITH
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Lyrics:
What will grow crooked, you can't make straight
It's the price that you gotta pay
Do yourself a favour and pack your bags
Buy a ticket and get on the train
Buy a ticket and get on the train
'Cause this is fucked up, fucked up
'Cause this is fucked up, fucked up
People get crushed like biscuit crumbs
And laid down in the bitumen
You have tried your best to please everyone
But it just isn't happening
No, it just isn't happening
And it's fucked up, fucked up
And this is fucked up, fucked up
This your blind spot, blind spot
It should be obvious, but it's not
You cannot kick-start a dead horse
You just cross yourself and walk away
I don't care what the future holds
'Cause I'm right here, and I'm today
With your fingers you can touch me
I am your black swan, black swan
(But I made it to the top, but I made it to the top)
And this is fucked up, fucked up
Be your black swan, black swan
(But I made it to the top, but I made it to the top)
And for spare parts, we're broken up
You are fucked up, fucked up
This is fucked up, fucked up
We are black swans, black swans
And for spare parts, we're broken up
Peter Smernoff
The best song on THE ERASER, and one of Thom Yorke's career-finest overall.
Layla Durrant
yes and Hearing Damage is also way special
Danny Bedoya
I love the lyrics and the rhythm.
Very groovy.
Joshua Holmes
Hmm
John Sesame
Shut your dirty mouth!!!
Ok your right my bad.
Michael Scott
Peter Smernoff Yeah , Im thinkin' I agree . What's more , it was damn near the almost perfect song to come on for the end credits of the movie A SCANNER DARKLY. It you've seen it then you'll know what I mean & if you haven't , I would highly recommend it..
Andre Slater
About 10 years ago or so I was heavily getting into Trip -Hop and dabbling in electronica and exploring all songs in that genre and stumbled across this song one day, this is the first song I heard of Thom Yorke and I was like wtf this is the sound I have been looking for, and have been missing, then I started searching Thom and figured out he was Radiohead, and then mind was blown and ever since listened to all his albums and songs and he is my favorite hands down.
AlyssaQ420
@Nolan Massarello High and Dry is another good one by Radiohead.
Nolan Massarello
@Curran Beithon ima go listen
NiXX
He's amazing mate. Musical and ethical guardian. Should be PM, not that douche Johnson.