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To celebrate 25 years since Radiohead’s OK Computer was first released, 6 Music dedicates Friday 20 May to 1997, playing the game-changing album in full across the daytime shows, alongside other key alternative tracks from the year.

We also take an in-depth look at the album, with producer Nigel Godrich, in 6 Music's Deep Dive into OK Computer, and raid the archive for more gems in the 6 Music Radiohead Artist Collection.

But what have the band been up to since the album was released? Read on to discover 25 of the innovative and intriguing things Radiohead have done over the last 25 years.

In June 1997, just a few weeks after OK Computer came out, Radiohead headlined Glastonbury's Pyramid Stage for the first time. The festival is famed for its mud, but that year there was so much bad weather that Worthy Farm became a veritable quagmire.

The rain fell and the sound system failed during Radiohead's set, so the band couldn't actually hear what they were doing. But many of those who were there that night (and plenty of those who weren't) still talk about it as one of the greatest gigs of all time.

Radiohead returned to headline the Pyramid Stage again in 2003 and 2017, while some lucky festival goers caught their secret sets at the festival in 2010 and again in 2011.

• Listen to highlights for Radiohead's Pyramid Stage sets from 1997 and 2017

In 1997 the ever-innovative Radiohead became one of the first music acts in the world to have a website.

To celebrate the OK Computer reissue OKNOTOK 1997-2017, the band restored their website to its 1997 glory - sort of.

The site featured a sparse, inter-looping series of pages filled with what is supposedly the discarded ephemera from the broken 1990s hard drives of "Donwood and Tchock" (aka Radiohead's long term artistic partner Stanley Donwood and Thom Yorke.)

The 1990s defining OK Computer may have tested boundaries, but its 2000 follow up Kid A took off in radical new directions. Guitars were largely ditched, in favour of experimental meditations in electronica, krautrock, free jazz, avant-garde classical and juddering rhythms.

There was no single, no music video and almost no traditional press or promotion, with Radiohead becoming one of the first acts to instead use the web as a direct promotional tool.

Radiohead took the first of many big leaps in the art of music release by coming out with the iBlip, a proto-app allowing fans to preorder and stream Kid A.

None of that stopped the record shooting straight to the top of the UK charts, and becoming the band’s first No.1 album in the US.

Radiohead have worked with graphic artist Stanley Donwood on all their record sleeves and artwork, as has Thom Yorke on his solo albums (including The Eraser, pictured above). Like the rest of the gang, he’s no snooze when it comes to creative innovation.

For 2001 album Amnesiac, recorded during the same sessions as Kid A, Stanley and Thom created a special limited edition of the album which transformed the CD case into a lost library book. The design won them a Grammy Award for Best Recording Package.

Radiohead’s lead guitarist, chief arranger and keyboardist Jonny Greenwood is also a talented multi-instrumentalist and a highly respected composer.

He first composed for an orchestra during the recording of Kid A, and subsequent Radiohead albums have gone onto feature his string and brass arrangements – particularly last year’s A Moon Shaped Pool. In 2004, Jonny was crowned composer-in-residence for the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Concert Orchestra. He also curated and composed music for a ´óÏó´«Ã½ Prom in 2019.

But away from Radiohead it’s for his film soundtracks which Jonny is best known. His first was for 2003’s Bodysong, a movie about human life and the human condition. He has worked with director Paul Thomas Anderson several times, including on 2007’s much applauded soundtrack for There Will Be Blood.

Perhaps impressed by Jonny's antics, Thom has taken his first steps in the world of film scoring too. He told 6 Music's Matt Everitt about looking to Vangelis for inspiration - hear the clip below...

In 2003 Radiohead released Hail To The Thief, a record mixing alt rock with electronics and criticising George Bush and the War on Terror. It marked the last album to be released with their record company, with Thom first mentioning they would be departing EMI in a 6 Music interview with Tom Robinson.

Questioning whether bands actually needed a record company in the evolving music industry landscape, Radiohead would go on to experiment with bold new ways to get music to their fans. In 2006 The New York Times called them "

In 2006 Thom Yorke released his first solo album, The Eraser, working with Radiohead's long term producer Nigel Godrich as well as Stanley Donwood. The electronic leaning album expressed his political fears and feelings, and was nominated for the Mercury Prize.

In 2014 he released his second solo record, Tomorrow's Modern Boxes, via BitTorrent.

Thom's song 'Hearing Damage' featured on the 2009 soundtrack to The Twilight Saga: New Moon. Radiohead's 15 Step had featured in the closing credits to the original movie, although not on the accompanying soundtrack album.

• Listen to The First Time with Thom Yorke

In 2009 Thom pulled together a supergroup for the live performance of his debut solo material. Nigel Godrich, the Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea, Beck and R.E.M. drummer Joey Waronker and Forro In the Dark’s percussionist Mauro Refosco went on tour with Thom under the name Atoms for Peace.

The collective would go on to release Amok, an album of original material, in 2013.

In October 2007 Radiohead released their seventh album, In Rainbows, as a pay-what-you-like download, becoming the first major act to ever do such a thing.

The pay-what-you-like opportunity ended in December, and the album was given a physical release on XL Recordings. Now eligible for the charts of the day, it went straight to No.1.

By autumn the next year, In Rainbows had sold over three million copies across the world.

Among the album’s tracks was House of Cards, which featured a ground-breaking video where no cameras or lights were used. Instead, 3D plotting technologies collected information about the shapes and relative distances of objects. The video was created entirely with visualizations of that data.

• Listen to House of Cards and more classic Radiohead songs in 6 Music’s Radiohead Playlist

Radiohead have been long term activists against climate change, and have expressed worries about the environmental impact of touring.

During their 2008 tour for In Rainbows they worked with environmental specialists to try to ensure they stayed as carbon neutral as possible, and successfully encouraged their fans to travel to gigs on public transport, car shares or on foot.

Most memorably they used next-level technology to create a stunning, 100% LED light forest, which their lighting designer Andi Watson said, “took the ecology concept to the nth degree.”

In 2008 Radiohead launched , a social networking site where their fans can share photos and news, watch videos and connect. The site is still up and thriving today.

In 2009 Radiohead released Harry Patch (In Memory Of), a string and vocal arranged tribute to the last surviving British soldier to have fought in World War I, who had died the month before. Proceeds were donated to the British Legion.

Another new song, These Are My Twisted Words, was leaked via torrent shortly afterwards, before being released as a free download on the Radiohead website. By this point it was clear that the band felt free to release music as and when they chose, without pointing towards an album or following any of the normal music industry structures.

Radiohead drummer Philip Selway released his first solo album, Familial, in 2010, and follow up Weatherhouse in 2014. He has also provided backing vocals, along with a spot of guitar, for charity music project 7 Worlds Collide (alongside bandmate Ed O'Brien.)

You might just have spotted Phil – alongside his Radiohead bandmate Jonny, as well as Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker – cameoing as magical band The Weird Sisters in the movie Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

• Listen to The First Time with Philip Selway

In 2011, Radiohead released their eighth album The King of Limbs, which featured a move into sampling, looping and complex rhythms – and was rumoured to have been recorded at Drew Barrymore’s house. A special collector’s ‘newspaper edition’ of the album followed.

The black and white video for single , featuring Thom dancing in a groovy but erratic manner, became a viral internet hit.

By 2014, Radiohead still had more innovative technological tricks up their sleeves. They launched Polyfauna, an exploratory audiovisual app based on images and audio from 2011's The King of Limbs album, in cooperation with creative studio Universal Everything.

Bassist Colin Greenwood (brother to Jonny) is yet to release a solo album, but in 2013 he made his first ever solo performance at Paris Fashion week, playing in a giant warehouse while models walked down a runway.

Colin joined Steve Lamacq during Indie Venues Week 2017 to talk about the importance of small venues to the band.

• Listen to The First Time with Colin Greenwood

While we’ve never quite been able to envisage Thom Yorke and 007 sitting down for a martini, the idea of a Radiohead penned James Bond theme was a thrilling prospect.

While Radiohead did write a song for 2015's Spectre, starring Daniel Craig, it was ultimately rejected in favour of Sam Smith’s Writing’s On The Wall.

Spectre was eventually released as a free download.

In spring 2016, loyal Radiohead fans began to receive mysterious embossed postcards with song lyrics on, before the band replaced everything in their online presence with plank images. Something was most definitely afoot, and that something was A Moon Shaped Pool, Radiohead’s ninth album and their sixth to top the charts.

It became the fifth Radiohead album to be nominated for the Mercury Prize, making them the most shortlisted act in the award's history. The album's release was promoted with a special “Live From a Moon Shaped Pool" event, held at many record shops across the world and incorporating competitions, special events and other activities. 6 Music's Tom Robinson also hosted a live listening party on the station.

Radiohead's guitarist Ed O’Brien became the band's fourth member to go it alone when he released Earth under the name EOB in 2020.

Talking about the album before it was released, he told 6 Music's Matt Everitt it was inspired by a year he spent in the Brazilian countryside with his family.

"I said to the guys (...), me and my wife are gonna go and live in Brazil for a year. I don’t wanna put the kibosh on anything but this is something we have to do. Don’t feel you can’t make a record. Make a record without me, if I can come in later on, whatever … I’d had so many adventures with this band; I wanted to have an adventure with my family."

Ed found musical inspiration in the processions running down the Sambadrome in Rio. "It was the greatest thing I’ve ever, ever, ever experienced in terms of music," he told Matt. "Everyone sings. There must be 4,000 people in each samba school who parade down there, and the combination of writing music and that feeling of being there and being like, ‘Oh my god, music can be like this.’ It was so profound."

• Listen to The First Time with Ed O'Brien

To mark the 20th anniversary of OK Computer in 2017, Radiohead announced the release of OK COMPUTER OKNOTOK 1997-2000. The special edition includes the original album, eight B-sides and three previously unreleased studio recordings I Promise, Lift and Man of War.

In an interview with 6 Music’s Matt Everitt, Ed O'Brien said that the band had thought that Lift would become too big a single to release at the time. “It was a big, anthemic song,” he said. "If that song had been on that album, it would have taken us to a different place, and we’d have probably sold a lot more records, if we’d done it right."

In 2019, Radiohead were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, with Ed O'Brien and Philip Selway in attendance to accept the award.

The induction was given by David Byrne of the Talking Heads, which was fitting as their 1986 song Radiohead was the origin of the band's name.

In their acceptance speech, O'Brien said: "I want to thank everybody who's ever been touched by our music. For everyone who comes to the shows and participated - it's not just us on stage, it's everybody."

The other members of the band couldn't attend the event due to bookings of solo live performances elsewhere, but in past interviews, Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood have about the prospect of the honour.

In early 2020, Radiohead created a of music, merchandise, concert recordings, rare tracks, remix EPs, artwork, and more, and released it to the public.

"Radiohead.com has always been infuriatingly uninformative and unpredictable," they said in a . "We have now, predictably, made it incredibly informative. We present: the RADIOHEAD PUBLIC LIBRARY."

While the internet is filled with fansites collating information about the revered band, many of these have gone out of use over the years.

This free website allows you to create a virtual "library card", and then browse through over three decades worth of material, including curations of the content from each member of the band.

When the UK was plunged into its first lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic in early 2020, the live music industry ground to a halt - bands could no longer tour, and music-lovers could no longer experience their performances in person.

Having just collated their live concerts for the Public Library, Radiohead decided to share a full-length concert video every week on their YouTube channel, to allow their fans to relive memories of their past performances and enjoy live music while safely in their homes.

On , they said: "We will be releasing one a week until either the restrictions resulting from [the] current situation are eased, or we run out of shows. Which will be first? No-one knows."

The , titled 'At Home With Radiohead', now contains 20 performances from across the world, from Peru, to Poland, to São Paulo, and festival sets from the likes of Summer Sonic in Japan, Lollapalooza in Berlin, and Coachella in California.

To mark the 20th anniversary of Amnesiac, Radiohead released Kid A Mnesia in 2021, which celebrated the sessions in which the majority of the recording for both Kid A and Amnesiac took place.

The reissue contains both albums, plus a third disc called Kid Amnesiae, which is made up of unreleased, unmastered material from the sessions, which had never been heard before.

It was promoted with a campaign on TikTok, and there were initial plans for an art exhibition to tie in with the release, which was ultimately cancelled due to the pandemic and logistical problems.

However, undeterred, Radiohead released a digital exploration game for PS5, Mac and Windows called the Kid A Mnesia Exhibition, as a free download.

In the game, which took two years to develop, players can travel through a virtual museum, checking out artwork and music created by the band at the time of those recording sessions.

During Glastonbury Festival's Live At Worthy Farm livestream event in 2021, we saw the debut performance of new Radiohead side-project The Smile.

Comprised of Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, and Sons of Kemet drummer Tom Skinner, and in partnership with Radiohead's long-time friend and collaborator Nigel Godrich, the band performed an eight-track set of new material.

This setlist included what we now know to be their early singles, You Will Never Work In Television Again, The Smoke, Skrting on the Surface, and Pana-vision.

During the performance, Yorke said that the name came from a Ted Hughes poem, and doesn't refer to a happy grin, but "the smile of the guy who lies to you every day".

They released a full album A Light For Attracting Attention on 13 May 2022, followed by a European tour starting the same month.

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