Thom Yorke bio

Thomas Edward Yorke, born October 7, 1968 in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, England, is an English musician, best known as the lead singer of the English rock band Radiohead. He has also recorded as a solo artist Yorke mainly plays electric guitar, acoustic guitar and piano, but he has also played drums and bass guitar (notably during the Kid A and Amnesiac Radiohead sessions). Yorke is also interested in electronic music. He is credited with playing "laptop" on his solo album, The Eraser. In 2005, Yorke became a spokesman for Friends of the Earth and their campaign to reduce carbon emissions. He has one brother, Andy, ex-vocalist of the band the Unbelievable Truth. Yorke currently lives in central Oxford with his girlfriend, Rachel Owen, a printmaker who holds a doctorate in art history, and their two children, Noah, born in 2001 (to whom the Radiohead album Amnesiac was dedicated) and Agnes Mair, born 2004 (to whom Yorke dedicated The Eraser).

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