The complete self-destruction of the entire popular music genre kicked into high gear, marking the beginning of a spectacular, planned freefall that continues to this day.
Granted, the Jews Canaanites controlled the popular music scene all through the
50s
60’s
70’s
but back then the propaganda and social engineering were still at manageable levels.
Yes, they had their spook artists and industry plants:
The song title tells you everything you need to know, doesn’t it?
But for kicks, here are the lyrics:
You're just like an angel Your skin makes me cry You float like a feather In a beautiful world I wish I was special You're so fuckin' special But I'm a creep I'm a weirdo What the hell am I doin' here? I don't belong here I don't care if it hurts I wanna have control I want a perfect body I want a perfect soul I want you to notice When I'm not around
Oof.
So much that’s cringeworthy there.
Whatever pretensions Radiohead had to genius later in their career, you can’t escape how truly terrible they were early on.
And I do admit they got better over time.
But this first Billboard hit pretty much proves they were industry tools at the outset, however much they may have severed ties with their handlers later on (and I believe they did, to some extent).
Anyhow, you can tell they had been tapped to push all the usual Operation Chaos projects, including Men-are-Pigs, though the twist with “Creep” is that it was targeted at men.
Not only that, but they were supposed to take some sort of masochistic pride in it, as if being a loser who can’t talk to women is some badge of honor.
Once young men were sufficiently demoralized and self-loathing, the only remedy would be to spend a ton of money on:
She lives with a broken man A cracked polystyrene man Who just crumbles and burns He used to do surgery For girls in the eighties But gravity always wins And it wears him out It wears him out It wears him out It wears She looks like the real thing She tastes like the real thing My fake plastic love But I can't help the feeling I could blow through the ceiling If I just turn and run And it wears me out It wears me out It wears me out It wears me out And if I could be who you wanted If I could be who you wanted All the time All the time
I still enjoy that album immensely, though it was a coming-of-age record for me so I admit I can’t be totally objective about it.
I do think it marked the beginning of their disenchantment with being industry plants and wanting to be artists on their own terms.
There’s less pushing of Operation Chaos and more pushing against it.
There’s a telling moment on “Karma Police” where Thom Yorke sings:
Karma police, I've given all I can It's not enough, I've given all I can But we're still on the payroll This is what you get This is what you get This is what you get When you mess with us For a minute there I lost myself, I lost myself
I read that as a subtle admission that they’re quite literally “on the payroll” of the “Karma police”, a.k.a. Intelligence (MI6, CIA, or both), and that:
“This is what you get when you mess with us”
is Intelligence threatening them in some way if they try to part ways – probably by losing their recording contract and media promotion.
Again, these aren’t so cryptic if you assume that Radiohead was tapped by Intelligence from the beginning to push all their projects geared at splitting society, making people feel miserable about themselves, and getting us to consume all their compensatory products and technologies.
To me, “Idioteque” is an acknowledgement that they didn’t realize at first the full extent of the damage that was being inflicted on society through the Intelligence operations with which they had not only been complicit, but on which their entire career was built.
But let’s cut to the chase, since you’re probably wondering where these guys came from.
No surprise, they have scrubbed their early lives extremely well, barely even telling us who their parents were.
We’re supposed to believe they grew up in your average, working-class British families, with mum and dad working hard to pay the bills every month.
But one of the first things we learn is that the band met at Abingdon School.
They hope you don’t dig too deep on that one, since you’d find out it’s a highly selective and prestigious school run for and by the wealthy.
The Times has called it “an elite boys' boarding school”.
It goes back to the 1200s or earlier, and its notable alumni page lists literally hundreds of names, including many peers, politicians, and celebrities.
That’s lead singer Thom Yorke while a student at Abingdon, looking every inch the cocksure, pampered trust fund kid that he was.
Yorke in 2018
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View full-sizeDownload Thomas Edward Yorke (born 7 October 1968) is an English musician who is the main vocalist and songwriter of the band Radiohead. He plays guitar, bass, keyboards and other instruments, and is noted for his falsetto. Rolling Stone described Yorke as one of the greatest and most influential singers of his generation. Also notice both his red hair and the large mole right next to his lips, both of which he ditched before he got famous.
That tells you he was already being cosmetically prepped for stardom.
Yorke’s parents are not given at Wikipedia.
We have to go to ethnicelebs.com, which lists them as Barbara (Sly) and Graham R. J. Yorke.
Graham was a nuclear physicist, though no other information about him can be dredged up on the web, it seems.
We know that the Yorkes moved around quite a bit because of their father’s job, landing for a while in Lundin Links, a posh golf resort town right on the water, across the firth from Edinburgh.
The problem is that there are no nuclear power stations near there, so what was his father doing?
Ditto with Oxfordshire, where they later moved – no nuclear power stations within an hour’s drive.
It doesn’t add up, which means something major is being hidden about Thom’s father.
Best guess is he was military, which would explain the multiple moves.
He later worked as a chemical equipment salesman, which just means he switched from the public arm to the private arm of the military, finding he could make even more money selling rather than buying the stuff.
The “stuff” in question was probably chemical weapons, which falls under the Navy.
Very likely they’re hiding Graham’s (and thus Thom’s) ties to Naval Intelligence.
Regardless, nuclear physicist is a very well-paid job, so there’s no chance Thom grew up working-class like he tries to sell himself.
Also noteworthy is Yorke’s height of 5’6”.
Perhaps due to some Jewish Canaanite blood?
I leave that question open for now.
But of course, the red hair ties in as well, think Woody Allen.
At Abingdon, Yorke was mentored by Terence Gilmore-James, the school’s music director.
Yorke even credits Gilmore-James for his success.
As it turns out, Gilmore James is the son-in-law of Mansel Thomas, OBE, the well-known Welsh composer who led the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.
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View full-sizeDownload Mansel Treharne Thomas, OBE (12 June 1909 – 8 January 1986) was a Welsh composer and conductor, who worked mainly in South Wales. So young Thom had connections to the highest circles of the British music world from the very beginning.
What’s interesting is the name Gilmore.
The notable Gilmours of the peerage are the Baronets of Lundin and Montrave— as in David Gilmour of Pink Floyd.
Gilmour at the Royal Albert Hall in 2024
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View full-sizeDownload David Jon Gilmour (/ˈɡɪlmɔːr/GHIL-mor; born 6 March 1946) is an English guitarist, singer and songwriter who is a member of the rock band Pink Floyd. Yes, that’s the same Lundin as Lundin Links, where Thom grew up.
Coincidence?
Maybe, maybe not.
More damning to Yorke’s “blue-collar” story is the fact that he descends from the Yorkes of the peerage, who are Earls of Hardwicke going back to the 1700s.
How do I know that if Thom’s online genealogy only goes back one generation?
Because, in trying to link him to the Earls of Hardwicke, I stumbled on this photo:
So, we can close out that question of Thom’s Jewishness.
But I want you to keep in mind the link to Jardine & Matheson through his Keswick relatives, because it links him to bandmates Jonny and Colin Greenwood.
They also have no parents listed on Wikipedia, but again ethnicelebs.com gives us the names.
Their mother was Benda Baldry.
There are Baldrys in the peerage, and guess who they link to?
The Mathesons.
Jardine Matheson is one of the richest international trading companies in the world, who basically owned Hong Kong and first put it on the map.
The firm was a spinoff of the British East India Company, first making their wealth from the opium trade.
We can implicate the name Gardner/Gartner as well, since they all come from the same word.
Yorke links to the Jardines through the Keswicks, which means both he and the Greenwood brothers may have had family connections prior to joining up at Abingdon.
Speaking of the Greenwoods, you probably thought I mistyped the name Brenda.
Nope, their mom’s name is really Benda, indicating a family surname.
And who are the Bendas?
If you know your classical music, you know they’re basically musical royalty.
The Bendas go back to the 1600s in Bohemia and have produced literally dozens of famous musicians through the centuries.
They don’t admit the Bendas were Jewish, but the patriarch, Johann Georg Benda, was the son of a weaver and his wife was Elisabeth Koch.
See also the French writer Julien Benda, who they admit came from a Jewish family.
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View full-sizeDownload Julien Benda (French: [ʒyljɛ̃ bɛ̃da]; 26 December 1867 – 7 June 1956) was a French philosopher and novelist, known as an essayist and cultural critic. He is best known for his short book, La Trahison des Clercs from 1927 (The Treason of the Intellectuals or The Betrayal by the Intellectuals).
Greenwood in 2022
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View full-sizeDownload Jonathan Richard Guy Greenwood (born 5 November 1971) is an English musician. He is the lead guitarist and keyboardist of the rock band Radiohead, and has composed numerous film scores. He has been named one of the greatest guitarists by numerous publications, including Rolling Stone. Jonny is married to Israeli visual artist Sharona Katan, and per Katan:
“Our kids are raised as Jews, we have a mezuzah in our house, we sometimes have Shabbos dinners, we celebrate Jewish holidays.
Jonny has two middle names (Richard Guy), which I’ve already said is a common mark of peerage names.
And there are many Greenwoods in the peerage, notably Thomas Hamar, Viscount Greenwood.
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View full-sizeDownload Thomas Hamar Greenwood, 1st Viscount Greenwood, PC, KC (7 February 1870 – 10 September 1948), known as Sir Hamar Greenwood, 1st Baronet between 1915 and 1929, was a Canadian-born British lawyer and politician. He served as the last Chief Secretary for Ireland between 1920 and 1922 and is associated with the activities of the Black and Tans in Ireland. Both his sons died unmarried meaning that the title of Viscount Greenwood became extinct in 2003. His daughter Angela was a wealthy socialite in the 1920s who hung out with Charlie Chaplin and Clarke Gable.
She ended up marrying a Delevingne, from whom the model Cara Delevingne descends.
I hadn’t heard of Cara before, but she is apparently a big deal, having at one point dated Harry Styles.
Styles in 2023
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View full-sizeDownload Harry Edward Styles (born 1 February 1994) is an English singer, songwriter, and actor. His showmanship, artistry, and flamboyant fashion have had a significant impact on popular culture. You can probably tell Delevingne is a Jewish name (think Levi), though they don’t admit it.
That is, they admit Cara Delevingne is Jewish, but only through her maternal lines.
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View full-sizeDownload She and Harry look more like cousins than lovers, if you ask me.
Likely they are.
Actually, I believe Harry is already more than halfway out of the closet:
O'Brien in 2017
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View full-sizeDownload Edward John O'Brien (born 15 April 1968) is an English guitarist, songwriter, and member of the rock band Radiohead. He releases solo music under the name EOB. The other two bandmembers, Ed O’Brien and Phil Selway, are probably related to one another.
Selway performing with Radiohead in 2018
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View full-sizeDownload Philip James Selway (born 23 May 1967) is an English musician and the drummer of the rock band Radiohead. He combines rock drumming with electronic percussion. Selway was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Radiohead in 2019 The O’Briens of the peerage married Selways fairly recently.
The O’Briens were a prominent Irish royal house, originally kings of Thomond and later earls of Thomond after being absorbed under English rule.
The 6th Earl of Thomond married Anne Fermor, linking O’Brien to Yorke, since the 10th Earl of Hardwicke’s first cousin married Frederick Fermor-Hesketh, 2nd Baron Hesketh.
So as usual it looks like every member of Radiohead is linked to one another either by marriage or business.
All of this explains Radiohead’s serendipitous rise to fame, a story that is as unbelievable as you’d expect.
From Wikipedia:
In late 1991, Colin happened to meet the EMI A&R representative Keith Wozencroft at a record shop and handed him a copy of their latest demo tape.
That November, on a Friday performed at the Jericho Tavern to an audience that included several A&R representatives.
It was only their eighth gig, but they had attracted interest from several record companies.
On 21 December, on a Friday signed a six-album recording contract with EMI. At EMI's request, the band changed their name [to Radiohead]…
First, how fortuitous that Colin just happened to have their demo tape on him.
Was he just walking around Oxford expecting to bump into some music industry bigwig at any moment?
And within a month they had a six album recording contract!
Incredible!
Within a year they were on the Billboard Top 100.
As happens to you, right?
The Radiohead wiki page leaves off an important backstory, which oddly we only get on Thom Yorke’s page:
On the strength of their first demo, on a Friday were offered a record deal by Island Records, but the members decided they were not ready and wanted to go to university first.
Hold on a second, I thought their first demo tape got them a recording contract with EMI, not Island Records.
It turns out there was an earlier demo tape and an earlier record contract, back around 1987 – and they turned it down.
Why?
Because they wanted to go to university.
Seriously?
What teenagers whose entire lives revolved around wanting to be rock ‘n’ roll stars would willingly turn down the chance of a lifetime in order to rack up a bunch of debt for literature degrees that would be completely worthless to them as musicians?
The rhetorical answer is none, unless these teenagers were already assured that they would make it big because of family connections.
There is no other way to explain why five teens would unanimously make such a ridiculous decision, or why those same five teens would serendipitously get a six-record contract from an even bigger label four years later.
On a Friday resumed activity in 1991 as most of the members were finishing their degrees.
Ronan Munro, editor of the Oxford music magazine Curfew, gave the band their first interview while they were sharing a house in Oxford.
He recalled that:
“Thom wasn't like anyone I'd interviewed before ... He was like ‘This is going to happen… failure is not an option.’”
Again, why was he so self-assured?
Why was he being interviewed, since his band hadn’t even released a single yet?
I’ve already told you why.
You’d be that cocksure if your grandfather was the Earl of Hardwicke and your father worked for Naval Intelligence and your mentor at your elite boarding school had major music connections and you were best buds with Bendas.
Their first album and string of singles after “Creep” were a flop.
Strangely, though, they were still being spoken of as an “inevitable success”.
But when your art doesn’t land, just turn to your Jewish constituency for some easy promotion: "Creep" had been played frequently on Israeli radio by influential DJ Yoav Kutner, and in March, after the song became a hit there, Radiohead were invited to Tel Aviv for their first show overseas.
Luckily, Yorke admits he became an insufferable wanker when he got famous, and he seems to have obtained a needed dose of humility along the way.
He’s much less insufferable in radio interviews nowadays.
Good for him.
And as I said, his songwriting seems to have started coming from a more genuine place.
I still don’t endorse Radiohead’s music, mostly because as I have gotten older the eerie electronic blips and spectral falsettos just don’t land with me anymore.
I also think Yorke’s lyrics fail to communicate any ennobling truths.
The darkness is often overwhelming, whether it’s in earnest or not.
That sort of stuff glances off me now, but I can see it really messing up impressionable kids who don’t know how to filter those kinds of messages.
I’d be remiss not to mention the other ‘alternative’ reading of Radiohead, which I first read at Vigilant Citizen several years ago.