Street Spirit (Fade Out)
Radiohead
1996
Earliest retained catalog association; not automatically the first release year.
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Release: 1995
Release: 1995Source checked
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The Bends - Radiohead / XL official Bandcamp catalog
Artist catalog under XL Recordings UK: original 1995 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.
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.
About Radiohead
Song-specific inspiration or recording background is not established for this entry. This sourced artist profile provides career context.
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.
Retained annual-list context
Street Spirit (Fade Out) by Radiohead is included for 1996 on the basis of the cited chart-associated source. This establishes the annual connection, not the circumstances in which the song was written. No reliable song-specific account of its inspiration was established in this review.
Annual-list context only; songwriting inspiration remains unestablished
UK top-ten singles in 1996 (Wikipedia chart transcription)
Secondary chart transcription reviewed: title, artist and presence in the UK top ten during this year. Supplemental annual selection, not an original release date or a U.S. year-end rank.
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UK top-ten singles in 1996 (Wikipedia chart transcription)
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