{"id":794317,"date":"2019-03-29T19:21:29","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T01:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=814701"},"modified":"2019-03-29T19:21:29","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T01:21:29","slug":"read-the-heartfelt-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-speeches-by-some-of-radiohead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/read-the-heartfelt-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-speeches-by-some-of-radiohead\/","title":{"rendered":"Read the Heartfelt Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Speeches by (Some of) Radiohead"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When the news came out that Radiohead<\/a> were entering the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame<\/a>, many fans thought they\u2019d pull a Sex Pistols and simply not show up to the ceremony. \u201cI don\u2019t care,\u201d guitarist Jonny Greenwood<\/a> told<\/em> Rolling Stone in 2017. \u201cMaybe it\u2019s a cultural thing that I really don\u2019t understand.\u201d Lead singer Thom Yorke felt the same way. \u201cIt wouldn\u2019t be the first place,\u201d he said, cutting himself off before finishing the sentence. \u201cDon\u2019t ask me things like that. I always put my foot in my mouth.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Bassist Colin Greenwood was the only one that found the idea of getting in exciting: \u201cI\u2019d be grateful if we got in,\u201d he said. \u201cLook at the others that have been inducted. I don\u2019t know if everyone else will go, though.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

But when the time actually came, none of the three showed up \u2014 not even Colin. (Thom Yorke said he had to be in Paris for a piano performance nine days after the ceremony.) But drummer Phil Selway and guitarist Ed O\u2019Brien traveled to Brooklyn to accept their induction on behalf of the band. Here\u2019s what they had to say after introductory remarks by David Byrne<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Phil Selway:<\/strong> Thank you! So, first off, I think I\u2019d just like to set the record straight. In the film, Thom said: Phil was the only drummer. I think what he meant was: Phil was the only drummer<\/em>. So thank you. This is a real honor. And it\u2019s particularly special that David Byrne has inducted us. As David said, we borrowed a band name from him 30 years ago and luckily for us he hasn\u2019t asked for it back yet. I\u2019d just like to say a little bit about what being in Radiohead means to me. It can be awkward and challenging sometimes. But I guess that\u2019s what kept us all interested for the past three decades. I\u2019m beyond proud of what the five of us have achieved together, and I know that Radiohead wouldn\u2019t have become what it is without the five of us.<\/p>\n

I can easily place myself back in my first rehearsal with the band at the school we all went to, and that band is still very recognizable to me, whenever we play. We\u2019ve learned all our musical chops together. Each new song has been like a lesson and our albums act as a chart of that learning process. We may not be the greatest musicians around and we\u2019re certainly not the most media-friendly of bands. But we have become very adept at being Radiohead. And when that connects with people, it feels amazing. I\u2019d never take any of this for granted, so thank you, thank you, so much.<\/p>\n

Ed O\u2019Brien:<\/strong> I just want to say this is such a beautifully surreal evening for us and it\u2019s very far from where we come from. But thank you for inviting us, inducting us into this Hall of Fame. It is a big fucking deal. I wish the others could be here because they would be feeling it. So thank you. Obviously a band like ourselves have a lot of thank-yous to make and I don\u2019t want to spend the next 10 minutes name-checking everybody \u2014 although I\u2019d love to \u2014 but you\u2019d be bored. I want to thank our families, who encourage us to go on these musical adventures. Our kids, our wives, our partners. They let us go swan around the world doing our thing. I want to thank everybody who\u2019s ever been touched by our music. For everyone who comes to the shows and participated \u2014 it\u2019s not just us on stage, it\u2019s everybody. We\u2019ve had some amazing, glorious nights with you. I\u2019d also like to thank everybody who\u2019s worked with us. We\u2019re a very blessed band. We\u2019ve worked with some incredibly talented, inspiring people who not only do the best for music but the best for us as human beings, and that\u2019s a really important part of Radiohead.<\/p>\n

But my biggest thank you is for my brothers, Thom, Colin and Johnny. All musicians know and fans know: It\u2019s an incredible journey. It\u2019s truly extraordinary. We\u2019re not doing run-of-the-mill stuff. It\u2019s amazing. We\u2019ve been doing it for 34 years and are still doing it. I want to thank them for their integrity, their authenticity, their commitment. None of these things you should take for granted. I also want to thank them for the musicians they are. That thing when we play together; that collective sound that we make. Some of the nights we have in the rehearsal studio where they\u2019re like transcendental moments. I thank them for that. But most of all I want to thank them for this deep, deep friendship. We could\u2019ve done this without this love for one another but there\u2019s such a deep, deep bond and it\u2019s a beautiful thing. So thank you. I love you.<\/p>\n

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When the news came out that Radiohead were entering the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, many fans thought they\u2019d pull a Sex Pistols and simply not show up to the ceremony. \u201cI don\u2019t care,\u201d guitarist Jonny Greenwood told Rolling Stone in 2017. \u201cMaybe it\u2019s a cultural thing that I really don\u2019t understand.\u201d Lead singer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-794317","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 07:41:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}