Tom York

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648 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 10 May

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Desert Island Discs · Classic Desert Island Discs - Thom Yorke · 10 May 2026 podcast

And I got really obsessed with music and I thought everyone was and I realised they weren't quite in the same way I was.

You said you like breaking things.

Yeah, I was really fond of breaking electrical things.

I took one of an old TV of my parents and I had it in my room and I pulled all the back out and it was probably incredibly dangerous.

But I liked the fizz of the cathode ray when you turned it on and I liked the smell of the old electronics and I would try and pull bits out and see if it still worked.

Younger than that, I was obsessed with Lego.

Always building things, I guess.

You built a guitar.

You'd started playing when you were quite young?

I started playing when I was seven, eight.

And I was obsessed with Queen when Bohemian Rhapsody came out.

I lay down in front of these big speakers in my friend's house and we just listened to Bohemian Rhapsody.

And at that point I decided, yep, this is what I'm doing.

And then soon after that, I decided I was going to do what Brian May did, build a guitar.

And it sort of worked, but I mean, it was like rough, literally rough cut out with a saw.

You know, it was terrible.

I think that's quite impressive for that age.

It really wasn't, believe me, it really wasn't.

And then shortly after that, my dad felt sorry for me and eventually bought me one.

Why did you want to sing, though?

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