Biography for
Thom Yorke More at IMDbPro »

Date of Birth

7 October 1968, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, England, UK

Birth Name

Thomas Edward Yorke

Nickname

Dr. Tchock

Height

5' 5¼" (1.66 m)

Trade Mark

Frenetic head swivelling during singing

His often spiky reddish-brown hair, which was bleached blonde early on

One eye slightly closed

Falsetto range

Trivia

Supplied his voice to the film Velvet Goldmine (1998). His voice is used as Brian Slade's in two of the songs performed in the film. In Bittersweet and 2HB, both Roxy Music covers.

In February 2001, girlfriend Rachel Owens gave birth to Thom's first child, Noah. Daughter Agnes born October 2004.

Is a vegetarian.

Worked as an orderly in a mental hospital.

Was rated Number 15 for Rolling Stone's Top 50 Rock Bands (2001) of all time.

Most Radiohead songs originate with his melodies and ideas which are then expanded upon by him and the rest of the band.

Opened for Alanis Morissette.

The Radiohead albums 'The Bends' (1995) and 'OK Computer' (1997) are considered seminal works of the 1990s. Yorke is the band's lead singer, guitarist/keyboardist, and songwriter.

Thom has had surgery multiple times on his left eye since childhood. None of them have worked completely (obviously).

Radiohead's 1997 album "OK Computer" came 17th in Classic Rock Magazine's list of the 30 greatest concept albums of all time. [March 2003]

Radiohead albums: "Pablo Honey", "The Bends", "Ok Computer", "Kid A", "Amnesiac", "Hail to the Thief", "In Rainbows" and "The King of Limbs".

Marillion are fans of Radiohead and in 1998 they covered Radiohead's song "Fake Plastic Trees" for their live album "Unplugged at the Walls".

His album "Hail to the Thief" was bootlegged two months prior to its release, which is a record. Despite suggestions to release the album earlier to counteract against piraters, it was released at the scheduled time and hit number 2 of the charts, which proves that major bootlegging did not drastically affect an album's success.

Drives a Fiat Punto.

Daughter Agnes born October 2004

Radiohead were voted the 73rd Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Artists of all time by Rolling Stone.

Radiohead's album OK Computer was in 2005 voted by viewers of Channel 4 as the greatest album of all time.

New album "In Rainbows" was released in 2007, employing a new method of distribution: the record is only available from www.Radiohead.com, and the fans can pick the price. Traditional CD release expected next year, in early 2008.

Personal Quotes

People are born with certain faces, like my father was born with a face that people want to hit.

Being in a band turns you into a child and keeps you there.

I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world. They're just sitting there. I can hit them with a two by four.

I can be very drunk in a club in Oxford on a Monday night and some guy comes up to you and buys you a drink and says that the last record you made changed his life. That means something.

Us on hard drugs? That would be horrible. We'd probably end up sounding like Bryan Adams.

People in bands don't have the kind of conversations people might think they have. The best things about being in a band are the things that are unsaid. You click together in the studio or whatever and that's enough to make you feel close to each other. There are no long nights of bonding where you tell each other your innermost fears.

Well, they're bound to, aren't they? It wasn't their fucking idea, was it? Ultimately, it's quite funny because I distinctly remember when "OK Computer" came out and you had people going, 'Yeah, but it's not "The Bends" is it? It's got all this weird stuff on it.' 'Why are they being weird? Why can't they just be normal?' F*** it. It's just nostalgia. It's like telling painters how to paint. It's not my problem.

We have to stop the oil giants pushing into the Arctic. An oil spill in the Arctic would devastate this region of breath-taking beauty, while burning that oil will only add to the biggest problem we all face, climate change.

Where Are They Now

(November 2006) Recording the seventh Radiohead album.