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Radiohead: the story so far – in pictures

As Radiohead announce a new tour, and with rumours of an imminent ninth studio album, here’s a look at the band’s career – from Thom Yorke’s ever-changing hair styles, to a rare band selfie

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Tue 15 Mar 2016 10.31 EDT Last modified on Thu 22 Feb 2018 06.22 EST

  • Radiohead: (from left) Jonny Greenwood, Colin Greenwood, Phil Selway, Thom Yorke and Ed O’Brien in 1992, around the time of the release of their debut EP, Drill, which, erm, rocketed to No 101 in the UK charts

  • Radiohead striking a moody Seattle squatted pose in 1993, in Washington state, USA

  • Post-Pablo: Thom Yorke at Shepherd’s Bush Empire in 1994, during a world tour which took place in-between writing sessions for their second album, The Bends.

  • Going grunge: a peroxide-haired Thom Yorke steps into the spotlight with stripes and a snarl in the mid 90s.

  • Back to black: Radiohead following the release of The Bends, performing at Glasgow Barrowlands in October 1995.

  • Going anywhere nice on holiday? Guitarist Jonny Greenwood gives Thom Yorke a shaggy crop in 1996.

  • The band in 1996, a year before the release of their definitive album, OK Computer

  • Portrait at the band’s then label Capitol Records around the release of OK Computer in 1997, an album that distanced the group from their more straightforward indie rock roots.

  • Ed O’Brien and a perplexed looking Colin Greenwood receive their trophy for the best alternative music album, for Kid A, at the 43rd Grammy awards, 2001. The group were also up for best album, but were bizarrely beaten by Steely Dan’s Two Against Nature.

  • Thom Yorke in mid-wail performing on the Pyramid stage at the 2003 Glastonbury festival, sharing the limelight that weekend with REM and Moby.

  • Thom Yorke overjoyed with Hail to the Thief’s win of best album at the NME Awards in 2004.

  • The first (and last?) Radiohead selfie? Colin Greenwood, Ed O’Brien, Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood and Phil Selway at Oxford Playhouse in 2007.

  • In Rainbows: during one of two huge 02 Arena shows in London, in 2012, following the release of The King of Limbs.
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