With their award-winning third album, OK Computer, the British rock group Radiohead emerged as one of the most popular and influential bands of the millennial age. The distinctive combination of Thom Yorke's beautiful yet chilling vocals and a background of richly textured guitars has gained them fans around the world and already spawned a host of imitators and cover versions. Initially the press hailed Radiohead as 'the new U2'. Now any new band that displays the same intense cinematic rock sound is hailed as 'the new Radiohead'. In Radiohead: Hysterical and Useless, Martin Clarke is the first author to delve deeply into the history of this band - its origins in Oxford where the members were childhood friends; the slacker-friendly single 'Creep' which launched their first album Pablo Honey; the second, multi-platinum, album, The Bends; and the unusual recording process for OK Computer, their complex concept album confronting the fear of a world taken over by technology. In this revised and updated edition of Radiohead: Hysterical and Useless author Martin Clarke looks at how the band went on to embrace technology through the electronic overtones of their subsequent albums Kid A and Amnesiac, both of which further established the band as a highly influential entity. Clarke traces the band's history and development up to the present day, on the eve of a new album release, and the on completion of a triumphant world tour. Throughout, Clarke also examines the psyche and personal demons behind the enigma that is Thom Yorke, producing an incisive vision of one of the most charismatic musical forces in the world.