Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 7 minutes ago

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The story of how Radiohead wrote Paranoid Android.
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00:00 Being paranoid about what people would think
00:24 A six and a half epic without a chorus
00:33 The pressure of Creep & the media
00:51 Origins
02:10 A sleepless night with noises in the head
02:23 Various iterations of the song over 1 year
03:04 Adding the counter melody
03:25 Thom hindering the progress on the song
03:48 A single only in the UK?
04:12 Lyrics
05:08 An encounter in a bar
05:26 Reacting against the press?
05:50 A joke…
06:07 but also serious
06:40 Fear of computers
07:00 Draft lyric that was cut out
07:17 Music Video
08:41 The only idea Thom had for the video
09:08 How Magnus Carlsson brainstormed ideas
09:22 The video captured the song perfectly
10:00 Don’t ask me about Creep, I won’t answer
10:32 Losing the enjoyment
11:00 2 years to turn off an internal monologue
11:25 What’s your agenda?
11:38 An unusual life
12:03 The media and how to approach it
12:19 Headlong into oblivion
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