Radiohead's Secret Weapon

Who's the guy behind that cool woodcut artwork on the website for Thom Yorke's Eraser? None other than Radiohead's favorite artist, Stanley Donwood, who has worked with the band on all of their album and poster artwork since the release of the My Iron Lung EP in 1994. Donwood is in fact a pseudonym for the writer and artist Dan Rickwood, who attended the University of Exeter with Thom Yorke. Rickwood's newest exhibition,"London Views," is on display at the Lazarides Gallery in London; the exhibit showcases the work that Yorke is using for The Eraser.

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Song Stories

“Helen Wheels”

Paul McCartney | 1973

A rollicking good-time hard rocker, "Helen Wheels" was not about a woman but about Paul McCartney's Land Rover, the anthemic chorus voicing the vehicle's reckless joy as "she" took to the road. The song was added to the U.S. version of Band on the Run but was issued only as a single in McCartney's native U.K. "I like that because it's a British road song and there's not many of those around," said McCartney. "It's always Route 66. But Carlisle? How many songs have got Carlisle in them?"

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