Thom Yorke

Thom Yorke on the Melt! Festival (2013)

Thom Yorke (born October 7, 1968 in Wellingborough , Northamptonshire , England ; actually Thomas Edward Yorke ) is a British singer and artist who is best known as the singer of the rock group Radiohead .

Life

Yorke's left eye has been paralyzed since he was born. Between the ages of one and six, he had to undergo five eye operations, the last one being faulty.

Yorke studied art, philosophy, and English at the University of Exeter . During his time as a student, he met his long-time girlfriend Rachel Owen († December 18, 2016), with whom he has two children. The couple split in 2015.

Yorke became known as the singer in 1986 (under the name "On a Friday") founded band Radiohead . In 2006 he released the solo album The Eraser and in 2013 - as part of the " Supergroup " Atoms for Peace - the album Amok . The title of the album Anima , which was released in 2019 after five years of work, stands for "soul". It is based on Yorke's preoccupation with Carl Gustav Jung and Matthew Walker ("Why We Sleep").

Yorke mentions REM as an important musical and lyrical influence in the early days. He also values ​​the poets EE Cummings , TS Eliot and Philip Larkin . Yorke can't read music.

He is a member of Make Poverty History , Make Trade Fair and The Big Ask .

Awards

In 2008, Rolling Stone listed Yorke as 66th of the 100 best singers of all time . In 2018 he received the Sound Track Star Award at the Venice Film Festival for his song A suspirium in Luca Guadagnino's film Suspiria .

Discography

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

The Eraser   DE 11 07/21/2006 (5 weeks)   AT 17th 07/21/2006 (6 weeks)   CH 10 07/23/2006 (9 weeks)   UK 3  gold 07/22/2006 (10 weeks)   US 2 07/29/2006 (10 weeks) Suspiria (OST)   DE 55 11/02/2018 (1 week)   AT 30th 11/09/2018 (1 week)   CH 28 04/11/2018 (1 week)   UK 13 11/08/2018 (1 week)   US 79 11/10/2018 (1 week) Anima   DE 21st 07/26/2019 (2 weeks)   AT 19th 08/02/2019 (1 week)   CH 12 06/30/2019 (7 weeks)   UK 5 07/11/2019 (3 weeks)   US 59 07/13/2019 (2 weeks)

Singles

Harrowdown Hill   UK 23 09/02/2006 (3 weeks)

With Radiohead

→ Main article : Radiohead / Discography

solo

Albums

• 2006: The Eraser
• 2008: The Eraser - Rmxs (remix album; US import)
• 2014: Tomorrow's Modern Boxes
• 2018: Suspiria (Music for the Luca Guadagnino Film)
• 2019: Anima

EPs

• 2006: Spitting Feathers (7-track B-Side EP released in Japan)

Singles

• 2006: Black Swan
• 2006: Harrowdown Hill
• 2006: Analysis (12 "& Download)
• 2008: Modeselektor feat. Thom Yorke: The White Flash (Album: Godspeed / The White Flash)
• 2009: Feeling Pulled Apart by Horses
• 2009: Hearing Damage

With Atoms for Peace

Albums

• 2013 amok

Singles

• 2012: Default
• 2012: Judge Jury and Executioner

Web links

Commons : Thom Yorke  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Thom Yorke in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Thom Yorke on MusicBrainz (English)
• Thom Yorke at Discogs (English)
• The Eraser  - Thom Yorke's solo project

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1. ↑ Nicola Slawson: Thom Yorke's ex-partner Rachel Owen dies at 48 . In: The Guardian . December 20, 2016, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed June 14, 2017]).
2. ↑ MTV news: Thom Yorke solo , May 15, 2006
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Christoph Dallach: “By the way, Dad, we're going to demonstrate” - Interview with Thom Yorke . In: Zeit-Magazin No. 30 of July 18, 2019, pp. 14–20, here p. 20.
4. ^ Daniel Gerhardt: Apocalypse of the willless . Zeit Online, June 27, 2019, last checked on August 5, 2019.
5. ↑ Christoph Dallach: “By the way, Dad, we're going to demonstrate” - Interview with Thom Yorke . In: Zeit-Magazin No. 30 of July 18, 2019, pp. 14–20, here p. 19.
6. ↑ 100 Greatest Singers of All Time. Rolling Stone , December 2, 2010, accessed August 9, 2017 . 
7. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
8. ↑ Music Sales Awards: UK