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Radiohead – Anyone Can Play Guitar (3:36)

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“Anyone Can Play Guitar” was a single taken from Radiohead’s first album Pablo Honey, released just in advance of the album. It was the band’s second single, and their first to receive a wide hearing (“Creep” had been issued in limited quantities some months earlier, and had failed to chart, but would soon become a hit and ultimately be re-released later in 1993). “Anyone Can Play Guitar” made relatively little impression on the charts, but it remained a staple of the band’s live sets throughout the early-mid nineties.

Thom Yorke has said that the song is about the mysticism that guitarists seek to perpetuate around their instrument, rather than it being about practice, a talent that anyone can gain with some application.

He has also said that he has a pathological disrespect for Jim Morrison. He has said that he feels it affects people in rock, “in that they believe that they think they have to act like fuckng prats in order to live up to the legend”

He has also been quoted as saying:

“Jim Morrison’s a fat talentless bastard - and he’s dead.”
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  • viathin12

    I have to say that I love the entire pablo honey cd which this song originated on. to me their is not one bad song on the whole cd

    Sunday evening

  • matt_white

    "He's no Jim Morrison, not even close." Correct, he's much better.

    last week

  • naturalway

    noise influences <3

    14 days ago

  • freakin_jorjo

    Destiny protect me from the world.

    last month

  • ImmortaLuv

    He's no Jim Morrison, not even close.

    November 2011

  • RobCanning

    I wanna be, wanna be, wanna be Jim Morisson...

    November 2011

  • Roc_Melo

    Yeah except ginger people

    November 2011

  • KAGA1984

    just a college rock song

    June 2011

  • IndieBritrock

    Sonic Youth Under The Influence.....

    April 2011

  • CharlotteRos

    el quiere ser...jimmm morrisoooon! xD♥

    April 2011

  • p-augusto

    i cant play guitar hehe but i tried ;)

    March 2011

  • TheShwagShop

    almost forgot about this gem

    March 2011

  • ProjectorStars

    Enjoy this song more now that I can call myself Anyone.

    February 2011

  • AGuitarSolo

    I wanna be, wanna be, wanna be Jim Morisson! (Thom growl implied)

    February 2011

  • thirteenstone

    If the world does turn and if London burns I'll be standing on the beach with my guitar. I wanna be in a band when I get to heaven. Anyone can play guitar they won't be nothing anymore

    February 2011

  • Soundservant

    This song makes me want to be Jim Morrison

    February 2011

  • Bub_Clifton

    No, not everyone can play guitar..Believe me I tried.. :( [3]

    February 2011

  • lackadazikal

    awww yeah

    February 2011

  • RafaelDivoz

    No, not everyone can play guitar..Believe me I tried.. :( [2]

    January 2011

  • samuel8

    ....Destiny proctect me from the world.... lol

    January 2011
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