(photo credit thanks to sonicswap.com)Or like a demigod maybe...
A. a person with great powers and abilities
B. a person who is part mortal/part god
Either way, Thomas Edward Yorke is amazing, plain and simple. Yet, I would not define his music as plain and simple, more or less, the exact opposite and beautifully orchestrated.
An English musician, born 10.7.68 in Wellingborough, Northamtonshire, England, Thom Yorke currently resides in central Oxford with his wife Rachel Owen and their two children, Noah (2001) and Agnes (2004). He leads the band Radiohead and has since 1993, releasing 7 albums under the bands name and 5 singles under his own name.
Yorke can play electric guitar, acoustic guitar, bass guitar, drums, piano and is also an electronic musician. Although known for his unique falsetto and being able to hit and sustain such high notes, Yorke has been found once saying, "it annoys me how pretty my voice is... how polite it can sound when perhaps what I'm singing is deeply acidic."
Yorke has done collaborations with Drugstore, Dj Shadow (UNKLE), Bjork, PJ Harvey & Modeselektor. He got the name 'Radiohead' from the Talking Heads album 'True Stories' in 1991. He is strongly into Activism, including support of fair trade practices, human rights and anti-war movements, anti-WTO and anti-globalisation. He is an environmentalist and a vegetarian.
More to come on Radiohead...
'The Eraser' is amazing, please listen to it..
Thom Yorke's Myspace
Buy 'The Eraser' HERE
Thom Yorke's 'The Eraser' Homepage
===>"Black Swan"<===
From Thom Yorke's solo album 'The Eraser' (July, 2006)
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