Radiohead - A History: Part 1

Published: Nov. 28, 2018, 5 a.m.

b'Is it just me or has there been an uptick in the number of one-hit-wonders over the past couple of years?...think about all the hot bands who have had just one good album\\u2013or even just one good song\\u2013before they\\u2019re forgotten...\\n\\nIn the old days, a group developed and evolved over a series of albums...three, four, five, six records, even...it was slow and look a lot of patience and a lot of fighting to keep things together, but more often than not, it paid off...look at U2...or REM...or Blur...or Depeche Mode...or Nine Inch Nails...\\n\\nNone of these bands was what you\\u2019d called immediate, instant, hit-it-out-of-the-park successes...each group was allowed to build a career the old-fashioned way: slowly and carefully...and most importantly, they were allowed to make mistakes along the way...\\n\\nOh\\u2013you know who we missed in that list of bands?...Radiohead...\\n\\nThey started slow\\u2013really slow...they\\u2019ve made a bunch of mistakes...they\\u2019ve conducted a lot of experiments\\u2013some successful, some failures...but because they\\u2019ve stuck together, because they\\u2019ve always believed in their mission, and most of all, because they all happen to be exceptional musicians, Radiohead has become one of the most revered, most influential and most analyzed groups in the history of alt-rock\\u2026\\n\\nAnd that\\u2019s not all\\u2026along the way, they\\u2019ve managed to rewrite a lot of the rules about what a band is and isn\\u2019t supposed to do\\u2026\\n\\nThis is the story of Radiohead got to where they are today\\u2026\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'