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Paperback Exit Music: The Radiohead Story Book

ISBN: 0385333935

ISBN13: 9780385333931

Exit Music: The Radiohead Story

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Radiohead doesn't play by the rules of rock stardom. When conventional wisdom urges a turn to the right, Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Ed O'Brien, Colin Greenwood, and Phil Selway unfailingly turn left. Despite or perhaps because of this, Radiohead has become one of the world's most famous bands, and more important, unique in its style, themes, and ability to connect to a loyal fan base. But Radiohead's journey to fame over more than a decade has been fraught with tension. As the quintet continues to search for sounds that haven't been heard before, each new album and tour is a potential crisis point, threatening to split the band apart. Through it all, these consummate outsiders have revealed little about themselves. But Exit Music: The Radiohead Story uncovers the details behind the songs. In this new, updated, and revised edition, author Mac Randall follows the band from its beginnings in suburban Oxford, UK, through the success of Creep and OK Computer to the traumatic recording sessions that spawned Kid A, Amnesiac, Hail to the Thief, on to the award-winning In Rainbows and beyond. This new edition also includes coverage of the band's most current release and eighth studio album, The King of Limbs. This description may be from another edition of this product.

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Rated 4 stars
Good insights

One of the few bands that has hit fame and fortune, but hasn't been wrecked by it. Mac Randall's "Exit Music: The Radiohead Story" is a solid, informative cache of background info on this band, without being either vindictive or fawning.It charts the group's origins, the guys behind the music, and their rise from an unusually sedate gathering of British guys to a world-famous band with immensely popular music and legions of...

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Rated 5 stars
Good Book About Radiohead

This is a great book for all Radiohead fans. This book is also good if you're just a muscian, because it has a very nice break down of every song off of Pablo Honey, The Bends and OK Computer (The best 3 CD's ever)

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Rated 5 stars
Excellent!

This Book is Excellent! I reccomend it to every Bond fan especially those who love the books!

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Rated 5 stars
good but not up-to-date

This book was pretty good. Though I am an ardent fan, this is the first book I've read about the band. I found it very readable and it went by very quickly tracing the beginnings of the band until after OK Computer. As some other reviewers suggested, I also find it a little confusing as to why biographies are being written at this point, while there is still so much ahead of them in their career. Though this book is good,...

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Rated 4 stars
a limited review ...

... The limitations I refer to are as follows: First, I have not read a lot of radiohead interviews or articles as I haven't yet found a music magazine I consistently like (besides CMJ, which rarely includes interviews). Second, I haven't read any other radiohead biographies.Thus I can't comment on the accuracy of the book. Also, it might seem strange to you that people would be writing and reading radiohead biographies...

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