Creep was a monster that charted around the world and gave a British act a rare hit in the United States. But when the single was first released, the BBC refused to play it and Radiohead's label eventually gave up on it.
Help keep family & friends informed by sharing this articleOne of the biggest songs of 1993 came from a then-unheralded Oxford band named Radiohead.
Creep was written by Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke in the late 80s while he was a student at Exeter University. Neither of them were Creep, but while warming up in the studio, the band ran through their hit-in-waiting."When it was recorded, we didn't even know it was being taped," drummer Phil Selway told the St Louis Post-Dispatch in 1993.
One element left unpolished was what Radiohead members would come to call "The Noise" — the "kerchunks" leading into the chorus, courtesy of Jonny Greenwood slashing at his guitar."He really didn't like it the first time we played it, so he tried spoiling it. And it made the song." Released on September 21, 1992, Creep flopped, selling just 6,000 copies and only reaching number 78 on the UK singles chart.
In a rare backflip for the music industry, the label re-released Creep as a single in the UK on September 4, 1993, almost exactly 12 months on from its initial failure. The settlement was reportedly amicable, with Radiohead admitting they had changed the melody in the bridge to be more like The Air That I Breathe as an homage to the track.As Rolling Stone put it, the band "quickly came to resent — and even hate — the very thing that vaulted them to superstardom".
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