It was like, ‘OK this is what the next phrase could be.'”Īfter the release of Help, Radiohead were praised for offering a brand new track where so many others had provided cover songs. It was probably the best song that we’d done to that date. We’ve been touring the bends and played ‘Lucky’ for the first time in a sound check in Japan.

We didn’t have any fear about holding songs back. Speaking about Help, Ed O’Brien told Q Magazine “We wanted to give the Help album the best song we had at the time. Though some of the artists featured on the record delivered songs that were deemed slightly below par, Radiohead were careful to deliver the best song they could muster.

Originally released on the album Help: A Charity Album for the Children Of Bosnia, it was later included on OK Computer. ‘Lucky’ was famously recorded in a single day on September 4th, 1995. ” The power of their imaginations keeps them suspended in mid-air, but as soon as they look down and see where they are, they fall.” “The history of our times calls to mind those Walt Disney characters who rush madly over the edge of a cliff without seeing it,” he began. In Yorke’s explanation of the line “We are standing on the edge”, the frontman reveals certain apprehension about humanity’s desire to run open-armed into the new millennium. ‘Lucky’ was released on Radiohead’s 1997 album OK Computer, an album which seems to embody the paranoia and excitement of a world hurtling towards the digital age with no understanding of what it will entail. This footage, taken at an unknown arena concert in 1998, shows Michael Stipe singing Radiohead’s ‘Lucky’ while Thom Yorke, Johnny Greenwood, Philip Selway, Ed O’Brien and Colin Greenwood provide the backing. What’s this, two of the 1990’s greatest alternative rock bands sharing the same stage? You’re damn right it is.

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