I think maybe since there isn't a great deal of access to the mainstream media and people don't understand the language of mainstream media, if you put music out there with lyrics that are loosely political, people absorb some of it and spit it back out.

He has also collaborated on several tracks with the electronic music group Modeselektor providing vocals on the 2007 track "The White Flash" from the album Happy Birthday as well as 2011 tracks "Shipwreck" and "This" from the album Monkeytown in addition to production contributions on the album's b-side "Dull Hull". In 2010 it was reported that Yorke would be covering Peter Gabriel's song "Wallflower" from Gabriel's fourth solo album Peter Gabriel 4 (Security) with Gabriel claiming "Thom wanted to do a version of Wallflower which I'm very curious to hear. The family finally settled in Oxfordshire in 1978.

He mainly plays guitar and piano but has also played drums and bass guitar (notably during the Kid A and Amnesiac sessions). 73 in Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Artists of All Time" in 2005. Thomas "Thom" Edward Yorke (7 October 1968) is an English musician and artist who is the lead vocalist principal songwriter guitarist and pianist of the rock band Radiohead.