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Also known as Thomas Edward Yorke

English musician and singer for Radiohead

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Thom Yorke is a male musician from England who began his professional work in 1985. His musical output spans genres including alternative rock, ambient, ambient pop, art pop, and art rock. He is also associated with electronic, experimental, alternative, and indie styles, as well as singer-songwriter work.

Yorke has authored six works, including *Fear Stalks the Land!*, *Kid a Mnesia*, and *Stanley Donwood*. His official website is radiohead.com. On Last.fm, his music has been played 54,227,189 times by 1,756,004 listeners. He has 1,109,939 social media followers.

Synthesized by Vinony from 18 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
6

Top works

  • Fear Stalks the Land!
  • Kid a Mnesia
  • Stanley Donwood
  • Stanley Donwood : There Will Be No Quiet
  • Bullet Proof I Wish I Was The Lighting Stage Design Of Andi Watson

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
England
Active from
1968-10-07
alternative rockambientambient popart popart rockbritish

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
1,756,004
Total plays
54,227,189

Tags

electronicexperimentalalternativeindiesinger-songwriter

Thomas Edward Yorke is an English musician who is the main vocalist and songwriter of the rock band Radiohead. A multi-instrumentalist, he mainly plays guitar and keyboards and is noted for his falsetto. He has been described by Rolling Stone as one of the greatest and most influential singers of his generation. Yorke formed Radiohead with schoolmates at Abingdon School in Oxfordshire. Their 1992 debut single, "Creep", made Yorke a celebrity, and Radiohead went on to achieve critical acclaim an

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Quotes

  • "The video of 'Paranoid Android' has been censored by MTV. They took all nipples out of the cartoon, but they had no problem with the scene in which a man cuts off his own arms and legs." source
  • "I don't think young people are as demoralized as the media and government would like us to think. The obvious sign of that is how strong and how close personal connections are and how much people are able to build a life for themselves, despite all this stuff that's been thrown at them."
  • "I wouldn't be involved with it [pop music] if I wasn't aware that it was going to be a product. I always wanted whatever I did to end up in the high street, no matter what it was, because to me, there isn't anywhere else to go. It's pointless." source
  • "We're at a time when we are being presented with undeniable changes in the global climate and fundamental issues that affect every single one of us, and it's the time we're listening to the most hokey shite on the radio and watching vacuous bullshit celebrities being vacuous bullshit celebrities and desperately trying to forget about everything. Which is fine, you know, but personally speaking, I can't do that." source
  • "It annoys me how pretty my voice is...that sounds incredibly immodest, but it annoys me how polite it can sound when perhaps what I'm singing is deeply acidic." - source
  • "There's nothing more boring than a rock'n'roll star, someone who has been on the road for 10 years, expecting attention wherever he goes, drinking himself stupid, who is obnoxious, incoherent, uncreative and has a massive ego. There's nothing more pointless." - source

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Encyclopedic overview

Thomas Edward Yorke (born 7 October 1968) is an English musician who is the singer and main songwriter of the rock band Radiohead. He plays guitar, bass, keyboards and other instruments, and is noted for his wide vocal range. Rolling Stone described Yorke as one of the greatest and most influential singers of his generation.

Yorke formed Radiohead with schoolmates at Abingdon School in Oxfordshire. They gained notice with their debut single, "Creep" (1992), and went on to achieve acclaim and sales of more than 30 million albums. Yorke's early influences included alternative rock acts such as the Pixies and R.E.M. With Radiohead's fourth album, Kid A (2000), Yorke moved into electronic music, influenced by Warp artists such as Aphex Twin. For most of his career, he has worked with the producer Nigel Godrich. He designs artwork for Radiohead and his other projects with Stanley Donwood.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Thom Yorke” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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