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RadioHead Criticise EMI
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Menho Donoghue on 12 May, 2008
 
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".