How to Disappear Completely by Radiohead Song Info
"How to Disappear Completely" is a song by the English rock band Radiohead from their fourth studio album "Kid A". It was produced by the band with their producer, Nigel Godrich. The song is titled after Doug Richmond's 1985 book "How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found". The band first performed the song in 1998 during the tour. An early soundcheck performance features in the 1998 documentary "Meeting People Is Easy". During the "Kid A" sessions in 1999, Radiohead recorded demos for the song in various studios, until it was recorded at their Oxfordshire studio at the end of January, 2000. In early February, the strings were recorded and performed by the Orchestra of St John's inside a church near the band's studio, composed by the multi-instrumentalist Jonny Greenwood on an ondes Martenot. An isolated strings track was included on the compilation "Kid Amnesia". “That song is about the whole period of time that "OK Computer" was happening. We did the Glastonbury Festival and this thing in Ireland. Something snapped in me. I just said, ‘That’s it. I can’t take it anymore.’ And more than a year later, we were still on the road. I hadn’t had time to address things. The lyrics came from something Michael Stipe said to me. I rang him and said, ‘I cannot cope with this.’ And he said, ‘Pull the shutters down and keep saying, 'I’m not here, this is not happening.’” — Thom Yorke
