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Radiohead | Artist Essentials
First released: 1997 (year verified)
Original studio album recording
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Release evidence and recording details
First released: 1997 (year verified)
The selected original recording appears on OK Computer (1997). The original release year is retained; later remasters, bonus performances and annual-list dates are separate.
Recording: Original studio album recording
Credit: Radiohead
Role in this collection: Primary artist
Original album: OK Computer
OK Computer - Radiohead / XL official Bandcamp catalog
Artist catalog under XL Recordings UK: original 1997 album association and released tracklist, corroborated against the official Public Library. Only year precision is used: some month/day labels differ between official pages or refer to regional/physical editions. Copyright alone and current sale dates are not used as release evidence. | Reviewed 2026-10-17
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These are listening-list appearances, separate from the first-release date.
Reviewed the actual retained title and Radiohead group credit against the original album recording. The original release context supports this recording; later single/list associations do not establish a new recording or reset its date. No conflicting version was identified in the scoped review.
OK Computer - Radiohead / XL official Bandcamp catalog
Artist catalog under XL Recordings UK: original 1997 album association and released tracklist, corroborated against the official Public Library. Only year precision is used: some month/day labels differ between official pages or refer to regional/physical editions. Copyright alone and current sale dates are not used as release evidence. | Reviewed 2026-10-17
Radiohead Public Library - original release entries
Reviewed public sound/release data for ph/creep-single (1992), bends/my-iron-lung-ep (1994), bends/the-bends (1995), bends/street-spirit-single (1996), amnesiac/pyramid-song-single (2001), ir/in-rainbows (October 2007), and the original studio album entries. The HTML-linked public state data was read because the search renderer exposes only the page shell. Month inconsistencies are not promoted to exact dates. | Reviewed 2026-10-17
Other catalog appearances
About Radiohead
Radiohead's group recordings bring together Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Colin Greenwood, Ed O'Brien and Philip Selway. Their music has moved across rock boundaries through a wide range of influences and studio approaches. The fourth album, Kid A, released in 2000, is a prominent example of the band's turn toward electronic textures. Their work also helped make digital distribution part of the wider discussion around album releases, alongside continuing changes in the sound of the recordings themselves.
Artist background sources
Radiohead - Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
Five named inductees, stylistic experimentation, 2000 fourth album Kid A and the band's role in digital music distribution; no current-member or separate-project mapping. | Retrieved 2026-10-17
Profile reviewed: 2026-10-17. Artist background does not establish a song's creative origin or release date.
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