Tom York
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
1942, start doing this, come on now.
Anyway, I'll just have to imagine the rest of the record, won't I?
Yeah, you will.
Talking Heads and Born Under Punchers.
Tom York, Radioheader, of course, named after a Talking Heads song.
And you met your bandmates, brothers Johnny and Colin Greenwood, Philip Selway and Ed O'Brien at Abingdon School in Oxfordshire.
So it's your music teacher there, Terence Gilmore-James, remembers you as, I quote, forlorn and a little isolated.
Oh, really?
Thanks, Terry.
You wouldn't have thought it, would you?
Judging by what I've been saying so far.
Yeah, probably right.
I mean, to me, the music school and the art school was my sanctuary.
That's where I spent all my time.
Sanctuary from what?
A posh private boys' school.
Full of assholes.
Not completely, obviously.