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. 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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