30 years ago: RADIOHEAD – “Street Spirit”

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Radiohead released the single “Street Spirit (Fade Out)” 30 years ago. Did you already know these facts?

★ The song was part of their second studio album “The Bends” (1995), and the fifth single to be released from it.

★ For Radiohead, “Street Spirit” was a breakthrough in terms of songwriting.

★ In the UK, “Street Spirit (Fade Out) reached number 5 in the charts.

★ Thom Yorke, the Radiohead songwriter, commented that the song was inspired by R.E.M. and the novel “The Famished Road” by Ben Okri (1991).

★ Jonathan Glazer’s music video was filmed for two nights in a desert near Los Angeles.

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