The Media section of the Guardian have positioned Thom Yorke among 100 other successful media workers and business tycoons as one of the most important personalities in the media.
Radiohead’s revolutionary ‘pay-what-you-will’ release of their seventh studio album, In Rainbows, was hailed as a “watershed” moment in reinventing the economics of the music industry and the “most talked about marketing gimmick of the year.”
The annual list, which placed the co-founders of Google as number one, was compiled by a panel of ten well known media faces including the likes of government minister Tessa Jowell, The Daily Politics presenter Andrew Neil and Newsnight editor Peter Barron.
With tendencies to talk despondently about large corporations, the accolade may not be looked upon too fondly by the opinionated front man whose name is 58 places behind one of his most riling of personalities, Rupert Murdoch. [thx Joe]
Radiohead news on this day..
- Stream: Radiohead remixed by Nathan Fake and Mark Pritchard/Harmonic 313 – 2011
- Radiohead’s Creep featured in trailer Facebook: The Movie – 2010
- Listen to Thom Yorke – All For The Best – 2009
- Donwood screenprints available at V!P’s – 2007
- BBC airs Glastonbury film tonight – 2006
- Gillian Welch covers Black Star – 2004
- Rumoured Amsterdam gig – 2003
- Win Radiohead tickets – 2003
- Acoustic KCRW session repeat – 2003
- Madison Square Garden pre-sale – 2003
