Thom Yorke says he was already sick of ‘OK Computer’ and needed to “move on” by the time it was released

Thom Yorke has shared that he was already sick of the Radiohead album ‘OK Computer’ by the time that it was first released, and was itching to “move on” from it by the time they heading on tour. READ MORE: ‘OK Computer’: 50 geeky facts about Radiohead’s iconic 1997 album The rock icon and Radiohead frontman spoke about his relationship with their hit 1997 album during a new, wide-ranging conversation with Harry Styles for Rolling Stone. In the discussion, Yorke went on to admit that while the record remains one of their biggest releases, the “worst thing” about it for him was that he got fed up of playing the songs before the album even hit shelves. “When we finished that record, we’d been already playing those songs too much,” he explained, adding that when his manager told him that they would have to then “go on tour for two years” to promote the album, he “literally begged them, [saying] ‘I can’t, I can’t do it. I need to move on.’” The band, also comprising Ed O’Brien, Philip Selway, and brothers Jonny and Colin Greenwood, embarked on over 100 shows as part of their ‘Against Demons’ world tour, which launched in May 1997 and ran until April 1998. Before later picking up again. ...