Tuesday, May 12, 2026

Thom Yorke and his teachers

At “a posh private boys’ school full of assholes,” Thom Yorke’s art teacher and music teacher told him that they could see something in what he was doing:

“You don't realize until after how important that is. I’m absolutely convinced that if both those kind men — if they had not done that, I wouldn’t be here today doing this. Convinced.”

“Have you ever thought about where you might have ended up if that hadn’t —?”

“God no.”
Thom Yorke was Lauren Laverne’s guest on the BBC Radio 4 program Desert Island Discs in 2019. The episode is available through May 31.

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