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Hamlet Hail to the Thief: Thom Yorke revisits Radiohead album for Shakespeare show

Stage production in Manchester will orchestrate the band’s 2003 recording to ‘chime with the underlying grief and paranoia’ of the tragedy

Christine Jones, who will co-direct the production with Steven Hoggett, said Radiohead’s Hail to the Thief tour “changed my DNA” and that many of their songs “speak to the themes of the play”. The record’s title was a spin on the anthem for the US president (Hail to the Chief), which Yorke had heard in reference to George W Bush’s disputed victory in Florida in the 2000 election. Yorke’s band, formed in 1985, provided a song for Baz Luhrmann’s 1996 film version of Romeo and Juliet starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes.

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