Photo: Tim Cochrane from London, UK / CC BY 2.0 (source: Wikimedia Commons)
My Take
Thom Yorke is the rare artist whose restlessness I trust completely. Plenty of musicians reinvent themselves to stay relevant; Yorke tears his own formulas apart because comfort seems to bore him. What strikes me most is that beneath all the electronic abstraction and rhythmic experiments, his falsetto still carries the same raw anxiety it did decades ago. The experiments change, the honesty does not. I think he is one of the few singers whose voice alone counts as an instrument of ideas. Every time I revisit his catalogue, something I once dismissed suddenly makes sense, and that, to me, is the mark of a genuinely great artist.
Overview
Thomas Edward Yorke (born 7 October 1968) is an English musician who is the singer and main songwriter of the rock band Radiohead. He plays guitar, bass, keyboards and other instruments, and is noted for his wide vocal range. Rolling Stone described Yorke as one of the greatest and most influential singers of his generation. Yorke formed Radiohead with schoolmates at Abingdon School in Oxfordshire.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Thom Yorke
- Name (Japanese)
- トム・ヨーク
- Reading
- とむ・よーく
- Born
- October 7, 1968 (age 57)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Libra / Monkey
- Origin
- Wellingborough, United Kingdom
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- guitarist / singer / composer / singer-songwriter / pianist
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- University of Exeter
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
- Official sitehttp://www.radiohead.com/
- Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/thomyorke/
- Xhttps://x.com/thomyorke
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%88%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A8%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AF
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.