Video: Fashion photographer Craig McDean captures the elusive Thom Yorke
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The famous British fashion photographer Craig McDean managed to do what few had before him: he dragged one of the legends of modern music Thom Yorke into the studio (who, to put it mildly, is wary of the media), filmed a full-fledged photo session and even made several close-up portraits. Tom came out in the photographs exactly as we know and love him: casually handsome, sad and mysterious.
In terms of the classic history of a rock star's career, the story of Tom Yorke has several serious flaws: there are no high-profile sex scandals or drug arrests, and sometimes deliberately little rock and roll.
More than twenty years have passed since the group gathered at a private school for boys in Oxfordshire - a well-mannered, intellectual team originally called On A Friday, and, in addition to Tom himself, including Ed O'Brien, Phil Selway (Phil Selway), Colin Greenwood (Colin Greenwood) and his younger brother Johnny Greenwood (Jonny Greenwood).
Barely out of college, they signed to record label Parlophone, in a season of greedy hunt for new voices and faces in the nascent shoegaze and burgeoning Britpop of the late 80s and early 90s. However, Thom Yorke has never been a typical frontman, but a typical group.
After the first fame, which brought them in a grunge style self-deprecating song "Creep" from the debut disc "Pablo Honey" (1993), they shot a line of albums that consistently violated all the canons prevailing in rock music and in their own work.
The album "OK Computer" is unanimously recognized as a key milestone in the history of the group - a complex, dreamy-sad and reflective on the theme of paranoia, isolation, computer technology and agonizing languor, which, among other things, introduced the expression "This is their OK Computer". Now it is often used by musicians (of course, with the exception of themselves), music lovers and, most willingly, music journalists, when they talk about the new album, which is at the peak of the band's creativity, which is at the same time their most difficult and interesting work and the quintessence of their individual sound.
Compared to the somewhat hysterical photo shoots of the 90s, which fully reflected the image of capricious intellectuals that had already taken shape, in McDean's photographs, Thom Yorke appears in a completely different status. It is a harmonious series of portraits of a mature musician, one of the most influential people in the history of music, by one of the most influential figures in contemporary fashion photography.
It only remains to add that Tom has long been one of the icons of modern pop culture. For example, 19-year-old Boston native Jody Steel painted a portrait of him lovingly on her thigh, and artist Robert Penney sent one of his albums half a century ago.
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