- Title: Thom Yorke gets candid about turning 50, writing first film score
- Date: 4th September 2018
- Summary: BRUSSELS, BELGIUM (FILE - FEBRUARY 27, 2008) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (REUTERS) ****WARNING: CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** VARIOUS OF YORKE AT "THE BIG ASK" LAUNCH VARIOUS OF YORKE ON PODIUM FOR "THE BIG ASK" LAUNCH AND ADDRESSING JOURNALISTS LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (FILE - NOVEMBER 29, 2015) (REUTERS) VARIOUS THOM YORKE ON GREENPEACE FLOAT DJ'ING DURING CLIMATE CHANGE PRO
- Embargoed: 18th September 2018 13:59
- Keywords: Thom Yorke Radiohead frontman singer Thom Yorke 50 years old Suspiria soundtrack new music Yorke on Instagram
- Location: VENICE, ITALY / VARIOUS FILM LOCATIONS / BRUSSELS, BELGIUM / LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM / VARIOUS LOCATIONS
- City: VENICE, ITALY / VARIOUS FILM LOCATIONS / BRUSSELS, BELGIUM / LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM / VARIOUS LOCATIONS
- Country: Italy
- Topics: Arts / Culture / Entertainment,Music
- Reuters ID: LVA0088W7P3D9
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- Story Text: Thom Yorke has produced some "really frightening noises" for horror movie "Suspiria" - his first venture into making a film soundtrack - but also tunes with "sadness and sweetness".
The Radiohead front-man has followed bandmate Jonny Greenwood into film music. Greenwood wrote the acclaimed score for the 2007 Daniel Day-Lewis movie "There Will Be Blood", and was nominated for an Oscar this year for another Day-Lewis/Paul Thomas Anderson collaboration, "Phantom Thread".
But for Yorke: "It was like nothing I'd ever done before, even vaguely ... It was 'in at the deep end'," he told Reuters in Venice where Suspiria, a remake of the 1970s cult classic, had its world premiere.
The movie stars Dakota Johnson as an ingenue American studying at a deeply sinister dance academy in Berlin run by Tilda Swinton. As the opening credits role, Radiohead fans in the audience will instantly recognise Yorke's voice, accompanied by a simple piano backing.
"It's me making a record that's not essentially one of my electronic things," said Yorke, whose two solo albums left Radiohead's rock guitars behind in favour a computerised music.
"It's me making some really, really, really frightening noises. But then there's a sadness and sweetness and it goes in lots of different places."
Yorke, who was 23 when unknown English band Radiohead released "Creep", a song that set the template for their tendency to combine gentle melodies with furious rock, turns 50 next month.
"My daughter is very fond of telling me that," he laughed.
"I think it's highly amusing that I'm still doing what I'm doing and I'm 50 and I'm still taking stupid risks."
Famed for his angst-ridden songs, Yorke said he was actually a happy person.
"You know, I'm alright with it," he said about aging, "I'm happy every day I wake up I'm still going 'I'm alright'. It's that simple." - Copyright Holder: FILE REUTERS (CAN SELL)
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