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20 Years Later, Revisiting Radiohead's Masterpiece 'OK Computer'

Musicians Thom Yorke (center), Jonny Greenwood (right) and drummer Clive Deamer of Radiohead perform on the Coachella Stage during day 1 of the Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival. (Trixie Textor/Getty Images for Coachella)
Musicians Thom Yorke (center), Jonny Greenwood (right) and drummer Clive Deamer of Radiohead perform on the Coachella Stage during day 1 of the Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival. (Trixie Textor/Getty Images for Coachella)

It’s an album that features songs about car crashes and paranoid androids, but it’s sold more than 4 million copies and is considered by some the greatest album of all time.

Radiohead’s “OK Computer,” which was released 20 years ago this summer, arguably changed the course of music history. In celebration of the anniversary, the album has been reissued with three never-released songs.

Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd speaks with Andy Greene (@greeneandy), senior writer for Rolling Stone, who wrote the magazine’s recent cover story on Radiohead and its breakthrough album.

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