![]() This success was attributed variously to marketing, to the album's leak on the file-sharing network a few months before its release, and to advance anticipation based, in part, on the success of OK Computer. It debuted at number one in many countries, including the US, where it became the first Radiohead album to debut atop the chart and the first US number-one album by any UK act since the in 1996. With the release of the ' single later that year, Radiohead began to receive attention in the British music press, not all of it favourable described them as 'a lily-livered excuse for a rock band', and 'Creep' was blacklisted by because it was deemed 'too depressing'. The band enlisted and, who had worked with US indie bands and, to their debut album, recorded quickly in an Oxford studio in 1992. Released in May 1992, its chart performance was poor. 1992–1994: 'Creep', Pablo Honey and early success Radiohead recorded their debut release, the, with Chris Hufford and Bryce Edge at Courtyard Studios. At the label's request, the band changed their name 'Radiohead' was taken from the song 'Radio Head' on the album (1986). In late 1991, after a chance meeting between Colin and representative Keith Wozencroft at, the record shop where Colin worked, On a Friday band signed a six-album recording contract with EMI. ![]() Impressed, he and his partner Bryce Edge produced a demo tape and became On a Friday's managers they remain Radiohead's managers today.
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