From Creep to Clickable: Radiohead’s Famous Homeless Fan Makes Good

From SPIN:

Last month, in honor of the 20th anniversary of Radiohead’s “Creep,” SPIN ranked 10 of the enduring single’s most clicked cover versions. A week later, we received an e-mail from our No. 3, the so-called “Homeless Mustard,” whose stirring rendition for Sirius XM’s Opie and Anthony has racked up over 9 million YouTube views since he recorded it on a winter morning in 2009. As it turns out, Daniel Mustard not only has a roof over his head now, but a new EP, Fragments of Bone, which he funded by raising $16,262 on Kickstarter.

Read the story in full here.

Or watch Daniel Mustard’s Creep cover here:

Radiohead news on this day..

• Alt-J: ‘We’re doing better than Radiohead!’ – 2012
• Indie labels close to win ‘In Rainbows’ bidding war – 2007
• The Ultimate Radiohead Top 20 – 2007 – 2007
• Thom’s favourite: ‘How To Disappear Completely’ – 2006
• Dead Air Space Caption Competition – 2005
• Bjork on Radiohead – 2004
• SYNDEY & MELBOURNE DATES ANNOUNCED – 2003
• Radiohead to be included on Capitol box set – 2002