October 30th, 2007Thom Yorke: I'mA Pop Composer
Thom Yorke has spoken for the first time since the release of Radiohead’s new album ‘In Rainbows’ via the bands official site.
Yorke revealed that he spent yesterday’s release day in the pub and also while quoting Robert Wyatt the pop influences behind the record.
He wrote: “Hope you are enjoying listening to the download of In Rainbows. It’s a relief to us all that finally it’s out there. It’s been a mad couple of weeks, as I’m sure you can imagine.”
The Robert Wyatt quote reads: "I love pop music to death….. Most great composers rely on folk music. I rely on pop music.
”I’m not saying I’m a great composer or that pop music is folk music. There’s a whole endless thing going on out there.
”You make your little pond but if your pond isn’t connected to the river, which isn’t connected to an ocean, it’s just going to dry up.
“It’s just a little piss pool. I’ve lived too long to be happy in a pond."
