Wrote AWKWARD Drunken Confession For a GIRL He Was STALKING…Became BIGGEST Hit! | Professor of Rock

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Coming up, it’s a song that spoke for a generation, but was never intended to. A throwaway track that this band didn’t much like, and one of the guitarists actually tried to sabotage it in the studio. That however backfired. And only made the song better. Lyrically, it tells the story of a doomed, drunken confession the lead singer, Thom Yorke made to a girl he was infatuated with… and well, was basically stalking. Let’s just say he crashed and burned. But the song itself, rocketed up the charts, somehow managing to be both cathartic and self-loathing at the same time. In fact, this track got so big, the rock establishment tried to paint the band as a one-hit wonder. It’s the insane story of Radiohead Creep from their 90s classic Pablo Honey. So would they still be standing when all the dust settled? Plus, find out why they basically blacklisted Creep for years. The story is coming your way… NEXT on the Professor of Rock.

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I’m excited to return to another one of my favorite shows that we do on this channel. It’s called Breakthrough. In this show we break down songs, albums or events that kicked open the door to an artist or band’s career and gave them the momentum to rocket to long-term success. For today’s episode, from Radiohead’s 1993 album Pablo Honey, it’s a track that touched a nerve with a generation, Creep.

So the five members of Radiohead first met as teenagers in the mid-80s at a boys-only grammar school in Abingdon… which is a small town outside of Oxford, England… although they weren’t called Radiohead back then. Consisting of Thom Yorke on vocals and guitar, Colin Greenwood on bass, his brother Jonny Greenwood on lead guitar, Ed O’Brien on guitar, and Phil Selway on drums, the band called themselves On a Friday… which referred to the only night each week they could rehearse.

Influenced by the likes of Joy Division, My Bloody Valentine, R.E.M., The Pixies, and The Smiths, On a Friday played their first show in 1987 at the Jericho Tavern in Oxford. However, the band would have to go on hold thanks to parental pressure to focus on academics… So the boys scattered to various universities. For instance, Thom Yorke found himself at Exeter University. There he continued to hone his lyric-writing skills and played guitar in a techno band. On a Friday reconvened whenever they could, typically during holidays, but they wouldn’t permanently reunite until the summer of 1991 in Oxford.

Picking back up where they left off, the guys got more serious with gigs and recorded multiple demos… Word spread about the band, and EMI ultimately offered On a Friday a multi-album deal. However, the offer came with a stipulation. They had to change their name. So inspired by the Talking Heads 1986 album True Stories, they chose Radiohead. By May 1992, Radiohead released their first EP, Drill. And the collection scored some airplay with the song Prove Yourself leading the way. But overall Drill garnered little attention. So the band teamed up with producers Paul Kolderie and Sean Slade to