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Hear Radiohead Talk About 'OK Computer' In A 1997 Interview

In the summer of 1997, Radiohead's Ed O'Brien and Colin Greenwood sat down with NPR to talk about their new album OK Computer, just as everything was about to change for the band.

In the summer of 1997, when host Linda Wertheimer sat down with Colin Greenwood and Ed O'Brien of to talk about the band's new album it sounds (in retrospect) like none of them – not our host nor the guys in the band – entirely knew what they were sitting on. O'Brien and Greenwood cracked jokes, gently brushed off questions they didn't care to get into and attempted to explain why this album was

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