Thom Yorke opened up about his ability to 'see' music, the heartbreak he felt following the death of his longtime former partner Rachel Owen & more
was uncharacteristically open and revealing in a wide-ranging, freewheeling interview for BBC Radio 4's "Desert Island Discs" show, describing his ability to "see" music, the origins of the band and the heartbreak he felt following the December 2016 death of his longtime former partner Rachel Owen of cancer.
As difficult as it's been, Yorke said he's lucky now that he has a new romantic partner who has brought "a light into all of it, which has taken a great deal of strength. And really if all that's okay I then want to be able to go to my methaphorical potting shed down the the end of the garden and carry on tinkering away on my new devices and feel everybody's okay. That's my ambition.
Yorke also discussed the eye surgery on his droopy left eye -- which was completley shut at birth due to a lack of muscles -- necessitating a musle graft from his "ass" to make the eyelid more functional. "I think we're all born with something wrong with us and that was mine," he said, noting that he kind of likes how different he looks now and takes it as a kind of badge of honor.
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