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Their 1993 debut, Pablo Honey, only suggested their potential, and one of its songs, "Creep," became an unexpected international hit, an alternative rock anthem. While there were those ready to chalk up Radiohead - named after a Talking Heads song - as a one-hit wonder, the group's second album, The Bends, was released to terrific reviews in the band's native Britain in early 1995, but it didn't satisfy everyone.

Having toured with the likes of P.J. Harvey, REM, Alanis Morrissette, Tears for Fears, and James, some fans were disappointed by the comparative mellowness of the new album, though plenty were fascinated by the band's distinct and varied sound. Especially because here was a new British band that owed more to Pink Floyd than to usual suspects the Beatles or the Sex Pistols (in 1995, the band even tipped their hat to Pink Floyd by mounting a quadraphonic surround-sound tour of the U.K.).