However, it took the band a year and a half to learn how to play the final version in live performance. Radiohead were inspired by the editing of The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour (described by Colin Greenwood as "brutal"), to shorten the song to a final six and a half minutes, a process that lead to Jonny Greenwood's organ section being replaced by a substantially shorter guitar fade out. We'd bring out the glockenspiel and it would be really, really funny." Before the song's first live performance, Yorke informed audiences that "f you can have sex to this one, you’re fucking weird." He also sarcastically referred to the version of the song played during the tour as "a Pink Floyd cover". There was a rave down section and a Hammond organ outro, and we'd be pissing ourselves while we played. O'Brien said "when we started playing it live, it was completely hilarious.
Radiohead played this extended version during a tour with Alanis Morissette in September 1996, but the first 'known' version dates back from July 6 at the Rock Werchter Festival (Torhout leg). The first edit was over 14 minutes long and included a long organ interlude performed by Jonny Greenwood.
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Paranoid Android was recorded in actress Jane Seymour's 15th century mansion (which Yorke was convinced was haunted) near the village of St Catherine, near Bath, Somerset. The band used Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody and the work of the Pixies as reference points while writing yet Ed O'Brien denies they wrote "a Bohemian Rhapsody for the nineties", while Jonny Greenwood considers it too tense and simple to rival Queen's song. In an early interview, Colin Greenwood described it "just a joke, a laugh, getting wasted together over a couple of evenings and putting some different pieces together". The rest of the song is not personal at all." And that was the end of writing about anything personal in the song. It was like, 'Oh, I'm so depressed.' And I just thought, that's great.
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The interview, First Time With Thom Yorke, can be heard in full at from this Sunday, ahead of its Glastonbury weekend broadcast on 6 Music on June 25, from 1 to 2pm."It was chosen as a joke. “I just want it to carry on being a process that everyone enjoys, that’s all I care about, and something that is still a surprise, that’s all I care about,” he added. So the way we find connection with each other is through something that has been created or half-created. “That’s kind of how it works because the truth is we’re not living on a bus together. He said: “I think once that’s finished there will be a collection of ideas which will give us the chance to get together. Yorke hinted the band, which will headline Glastonbury later this month, would come back together to create new music once he had finished “everything else I’m doing”. “I’d just change five words”, he said, adding he would be scribbling down different lyrics as he sat on the bus.
“(I would) endlessly do different versions of the lyrics … there are 30 or 40 versions of Paranoid Android. He said: “I was obsessive about taking notes, that was the only way to feel I was making progress. He told BBC 6 Music’s Matt Everitt about recently rediscovering his notebooks from the time the album was being conceived and “making friends with whoever this nutter was”. The Radiohead frontman penned dozens of slightly different lyrics for the OK Computer lead single, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. Thom Yorke has revealed he wrote around 40 versions of hit track Paranoid Android.
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