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 The Radiohead front-man has followed bandmate Jonny Greenwood
into film music. Greenwood wrote the acclaimed score for the
2007 Daniel Day-Lewis movie "There Will Be Blood", and was
nominated for an Oscar this year for another Day-Lewis/Paul
Thomas Anderson collaboration, "Phantom Thread".
But for Yorke it has marked a big departure
"It was like nothing I'd ever done before, even vaguely ... It
was 'in at the deep end'," he told Reuters in Venice where "Suspiria",
a remake of the 1970s cult classic, had its world premiere.
The movie stars Dakota Johnson as an American ingenue studying
at a deeply sinister dance academy in Berlin run by Tilda
Swinton. As the opening credits roll, Radiohead fans in the
audience will instantly recognize Yorke's voice, accompanied by
a simple piano backing.
"It's me making a record that's not essentially one of my
electronic things," said Yorke, whose two solo albums left
Radiohead's rock guitars behind in favor of computerized music.
"It's me making some really, really, really frightening noises.
But then there's a sadness and sweetness and it goes in lots of
different places."
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Yorke, who was 23 when unknown English band Radiohead released
"Creep", a song that set the template for their tendency to combine
gentle melodies with furious rock, turns 50 next month.
"My daughter is very fond of telling me that," he laughed.
"I think it's highly amusing that I'm still doing what I'm doing and
I'm 50 and I'm still taking stupid risks."
Famed for his angst-ridden songs, Yorke said he was actually a happy
person.
"You know, I’m alright with it," he said about ageing, "I'm happy
every day I wake up, I'm still going 'I'm alright'. It's that
simple."
(Writing by Robin Pomeroy; Editing by Gareth Jones)
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