Radiohead Foil Attempted Blackmail Over OK Computer Tapes

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Link: Radiohead foil attempted blackmail over OK Computer tapes [bBC News]

 

Radiohead have scuppered a blackmail attempt by releasing 18 hours of music recorded during the making of their classic album OK Computer.

 

Tapes from the sessions were allegedly stolen last week, with hackers demanding $150,000 for their return.

 

Instead, the band released the tapes in full, with profits going to climate crisis activists Extinction Rebellion.

 

"For £18 you can find out if we should have paid that ransom," said guitarist Jonny Greenwood in a statement.

 

Released in 1997, OK Computer is often called Radiohead's masterpiece - marking a huge sonic leap forward from its equally-beloved predecessor The Bends.

 

The sessions reveal the painstaking work that went into the record, as the Oxford band took up residency in St Catherine's Court - actress Jane Seymour's romantic manor house in Somerset.

 

Among the treasures in the collection are a 12-minute version of Paranoid Android, Thom Yorke's demo recording of Karma Police and dozens of unreleased or unfinished songs.

 

The first disc opens with an embryonic version of Exit Music, then called Poison, with alternate lyrics...

[korifugi]

Nice to see they've stuck one over the people who managed to "creep" in to steal the tapes. It's "no surprise" they've been left "High & Dry"

 

 

 

 

I'll go back to the punny thread now

[TechMonkey]

Perfect response! I don't know what the hackers were thinking really.

[Arthur]

I don't know what the hackers were thinking really.

Some might call them a "Scatterbrain". [emoji16]