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  • Radiohead Releases Powerful Anti-War Tribute to Last British Veteran of WWI

    I love Radiohead for their profound lyrics and powerful music. Earlier this month, Radiohead made available a track that’s a tribute to the late Harry Patch, who was believed to be the last living survivor of World War I. Patch, pictured below, died on July 25 of this year.

    Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke was inspired to write the song — titled “Harry Patch (In Memory Of)” — after he heard a 2005 BBC interview with Patch. Yorke, quoted in a Wall Street Journal article about the song, said: “The way he talked about war had a profound effect on me…It became the inspiration for a song that we happened to record a few weeks before his death.”

    Yorke used some of Patch’s words from that 2005 interview in the lyrics of the song:

    I am the only one that got through
    The others died where ever they fell
    It was

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