May 31 2009
Radiohead Advised to Disband
During the struggles Radiohead faced while recording “In Rainbows,” the band’s management team advised the band to break up. Radiohead spent almost two years working on the Grammy-nominated album, facing problems in the studio. Perhaps the band felt the album was not up to par like other Radiohead albums and released it on the internet as a “pay what you want” sort of deal. If you didn’t want to pay anything at all, you got “In Rainbows” for free.
The band stuck out, luckily for fans, maybe not for Miley and Kanye, but gained respect from the industry and proved just how powerful the internet is.
Radiohead is one of the most influential bands of the last decade and not giving up proves it.
