Six kids from England that end up at the same school for boys got together and started playing some music.
They called themselves "On A Friday", referring to the band's usual rehearsal day in the school's music room.
They graduated and headed off to university, but continued to get together on weekends and holidays.
After all but one member had completed their university degrees, the band regrouped and started to record demos and play live shows around Oxford.
Impressed by the band's live performances, the owners of Oxford's Courtyard Studios produced a demo tape for the band and became the band's managers.
One of the band's members worked at a record store. One day a record label representative happened to be in the store. Following this chance meeting, the band signed a six-album recording contract with the label.
The label recommended that they change their name to "Radiohead", a reference to a song from the "Talking Heads" album "True Stories".
The band released their first single, "Creep", to a not-so-favourable reception.
One popular British music magazine called them "a lily-livered excuse for a rock band."
BBC Radio 1 blacklisted the song saying that it was "too depressing".
Seven albums and three Grammys later, it looks like the six lads from the Abingdon School has had the last laugh.
Their 2007 album, "In Rainbows" was independantly released, first as a downloadable digital file, where the customer could pay whatever they wanted, including nothing.
1.2 million digital copies were reportedly sold by the date of the release.
The physical album was released two months later.
This is the first track from "In Rainbows".
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