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Pop Is Dead" is the third single released by
RadioheadRadiohead are an English rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, formed in 1985. The band consists of Thom Yorke , Jonny Greenwood , Ed O'Brien , Colin Greenwood and Phil Selway .Radiohead released their first single, "Creep", in 1992...
. It is the first Radiohead single not to come from an album, and the last until 2009's download-only single,
Harry Patch (In Memory Of)"Harry Patch " is a song by English alternative rock band Radiohead. The band wrote and recorded the song as a tribute to the British supercentenarian Harry Patch, who was the last surviving soldier to have fought in the trenches during World War I...
.
Released only several months after their debut single "Creep" and their debut album
Pablo HoneyPablo Honey, released in early 1993, is the first album by the English alternative rock band Radiohead. The cover features the baby Tim Coates, the son of close friends of the band. The title comes from a Jerky Boys prank call skit in which the prank caller says, "Pablo, honey? Please come to...
(on which "Pop Is Dead" was not included), the song also hit before "Creep" had begun its slow and surprising ascent up the pop charts worldwide.
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"
Pop Is Dead" is the third single released by
RadioheadRadiohead are an English rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, formed in 1985. The band consists of Thom Yorke , Jonny Greenwood , Ed O'Brien , Colin Greenwood and Phil Selway .Radiohead released their first single, "Creep", in 1992...
. It is the first Radiohead single not to come from an album, and the last until 2009's download-only single,
Harry Patch (In Memory Of)"Harry Patch " is a song by English alternative rock band Radiohead. The band wrote and recorded the song as a tribute to the British supercentenarian Harry Patch, who was the last surviving soldier to have fought in the trenches during World War I...
.
Released only several months after their debut single "Creep" and their debut album
Pablo HoneyPablo Honey, released in early 1993, is the first album by the English alternative rock band Radiohead. The cover features the baby Tim Coates, the son of close friends of the band. The title comes from a Jerky Boys prank call skit in which the prank caller says, "Pablo, honey? Please come to...
(on which "Pop Is Dead" was not included), the song also hit before "Creep" had begun its slow and surprising ascent up the pop charts worldwide. "Pop Is Dead" reached number 42 on the
UK Singles ChartThe UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record industry. The full chart contains the top 200 singles based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 of this list...
in May
1993This is a summary of significant events in music in 1993.-January-February:*January 8 - The U.S. Postal Service issues an Elvis Presley stamp. The design was voted on in February 1992....
.
The song was accompanied by a video the band filmed at the Neolithic Long barrow
Wayland's SmithyWayland's Smithy is a Neolithic long barrow and chamber tomb site located, near the Uffington White Horse and Uffington Castle, at Ashbury in the English county of Oxfordshire ....
in Oxfordshire.
It was later described by guitarist
Ed O'BrienEdward John O'Brien is a member of Radiohead. He plays guitar and is responsible for harmony vocals during live concerts and on many tracks from the band's albums...
as "bollocks".
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