Radiohead Announce 'From the Basement' DVD

Thom Yorke of the band Radiohead performs at Roseland Ballroom on September 28th, 2011

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Radiohead have announced that they will be releasing their appearance on the BBC television program From the Basement as a DVD and Blu-Ray before the end of the year. The band are selling the discs – which will come packaged with a free download coupon and 32-page hardcover book – through their website with the promise that packages will arrive in time for Christmas. The set will be available at traditional retailers in January.

The band's performance on From the Basement was produced by their regular collaborator Nigel Godrich and includes live renditions of every song from their most recent album, The King of Limbs. In addition to those eight tunes, the group also performed the non-album single "Supercollider" and two unreleased numbers, "Staircase" and "The Daily Mail."

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“Piano Man”

Billy Joel | 1973

Billy Joel’s first hit, “Piano Man,” was – ironically – an autobiographical lament about how his first album wasn’t a hit. When Cold Spring Harbor didn’t take off, Joel briefly became a lounge pianist in Los Angeles, and this song, about that experience, expressed his frustrations and fears at the time: “And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” “It was all right,” Joel said later, about the gig. “I got free drinks and union scale, which was the first steady money I’d made in a long time.”

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