After a false start - the
band was first called On A Friday because there only was time to play on Fridays,
but it was rejected because the abbreviation of that name is OAF - the
alternative rockers from Abingdon, Oxfordshire decided that they were going to be
called Radiohead.
They took that name from an album by the Talking Heads,
entitled True Stories, of which side 2 (sides still existed at that time, on
LPs) offered as second track - you guessed it - the song Radio Head. For CD
owners: you will find the number on the disc as track 6.
It was an appropriate
number as well, as witnessed by the following immortal verse by Talking Heads composer
David Byrne:
'Baby your mind is a radio
Got a reciever inside my head
Baby I'm
tuned to your wavelength
Lemme tell you what it says:
Transmitter!
Oh! Picking
up something good
Hey, radio head!
the sound of a brand-new world.'
Active: 1985-present, GBR
Site: http://radiohead.com/
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