RadioHead Criticise EMI

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Radiohead's Thom Yorke has been telling Word Magazine about his band's departure from EMI and the greatest hits' album the label now plans to release.

Yorke said: "We haven't really had any hits so what exactly is the purpose [of the greatest hits album]? There's nothing we can do about it. The work is really public property now anyway, in my head at least. It's a wasted opportunity in that if we'd been behind it, and we wanted to do it, then it might have been good".

He was also angry about comments made by EMI boss Guy Hands after Radiohead signed to XL Recordings to release their last album 'In Rainbows', in which the EMI chief hinted that a deal could not be struck because the band were demanding £10 million. "The idea that we were after so much money [is] stretching the truth to breaking point. That was his PR company briefing against us. I was so angry. It was a clear indication that the relationship was over".

Asked why the band decided to leave EMI in the first place, Yorke said: "Personally I just wanted to forget about it. It didn't feel right. And now it's like when you move house: you don't want to peer through the window and see what they've done with the wallpaper because it will only upset you".