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 Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2011 6:20 pm Post subject: Pyramid Song |
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In January 2010, while Radiohead members were in Los Angeles to record, the band played their only gig of the year as a benefit for Oxfam. Tickets were auctioned to the highest bidders, allowing the show at L.A.'s Henry Fonda Theater to raise over half a million US dollars for the NGO's work in Haiti, which earlier that month had been hit by a devastating earthquake.[77] A group of fans edited together digital video taken by attendees to make a multi-camera document of the concert, which they made available through YouTube and torrents in December 2010, with the band's support and a "pay what you want" link to donate to Oxfam.[78][79] In 2010, another collective of fans made a not-for-profit video of Radiohead's 2009 Prague concert and distributed it freely online, with soundboard audio provided by the band.[80][81] Live in Praha and Radiohead for Haiti were reviewed by mainstream media and were described as examples of the band's openness to fans and their positivity toward non-commercial forms of Internet distribution.[82][83] Radiohead's eighth album, The King of Limbs was digitally released in February 2011.[84] It will also be available in standard CD, vinyl, and download formats, or as a unique "newspaper album", which features numerous extras.[85]
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"Pyramid Song"
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"Pyramid Song" was strongly influenced by jazz musician Charles Mingus' 1963 piece "Freedom".[11] This sample shows the Radiohead track's string arrangement and irregular timing on the piano and drums.
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Among Radiohead members' earliest influences were Queen and Elvis Costello; post-punk acts such as Joy Division and Magazine; and significantly 1980s alternative rock bands such as R.E.M., Pixies, The Smiths and Sonic Youth.[8][10][23] By the mid-1990s, Radiohead began to mention an interest in electronic music, especially that of DJ Shadow, which the band cited as an influence on parts of OK Computer.[86] Other influences on the album were Miles Davis and Ennio Morricone, along with 1960s rock groups, such as The Beatles and The Beach Boys.[8][27] Jonny Greenwood also cited composer Krzysztof Penderecki as an inspiration on the sound of OK Computer
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