What is today the largest group of rock in the world Never the nebula of the current music was also rich, fragmented, with its genres, styles and audiences, which do not necessarily intersect... The Rolling Stones A tour, so triumphant it, does not put the history to the present. U2 The Irish group has more fully the creative flame irradiait stages of the world in the years 1980-1990. Why step Radiohead A group trans-genres, ecumenical, with each new album and concert is an event for 20 years. A group requiring, cultivating the "work in progress", inventive and charismatic, which will be the superstar this weekend of the festival Rock in Seine, already very "Galactic" with its displays of dream (Morrissey, DJ Shadow, Beck...).
This status of "number one", so heavy to wear, is paradoxical, for two reasons. First English training is by far. If is listening to his first disc, "Pablo Honey" released in 1993, it is difficult to detect the sparks of future engineering. The single "creep", which was a worldwide hit in its time, is a good piece of alternative pop, but the rest of the album is confused, quarterly between heroic way U2 rock, grunge way Nirvana (then at the top) and atmospheric pop a little chat, progressive rock way. Radiohead seeks and is after its third opus, "OK Computer" (1997), where it digests all influences from rock to techno to finally tell his own story. But it is with the two following disks, "Kid A", and "amnesiac" (2000-2001), that it really takes flight by the bet of the different, with his most gifted producer Nigel Godrich, involving muted guitars to give priority to electronics to free sound.

Beyond the rock
It comes to the second group Singularity: Radiohead not really rock. Or rather, it is beyond the rock: very melodic but wayward songs graded refrain-couplets; rhythmic, but rarely binary, all breaks and broken; Tower turns sweet and violent, harmonious and noise; Ideally fish mixing keyboard-guitars (on stage and in his last album of 2003 "Hail to the Thief"); more pop than U2, more rock than Pink Floyd... Radiohead succeeds the union of the opposites. Transcended by the magnetism of the singer with the voice of gold blue voluptuous and plaintive , Thom Yorke (1), the Group reconciles the "néo-babas", pure and hard rockers romantic brain... the rebels and the bourgeois (as the singing Madonna in its tube "music").
A show of Radiohead, is a pagan, elegiac, electric, mass without time, as a dream concert. See five musicians on stage in Paris is an event at a crucial moment in their career. In an interview with the "Inrockuptibles", its leader Thom Yorke explained in substance that the tour is a lifeline for the group, entangled in the achievement of his new album. Pleasure found play together perhaps will relaunch its creative verve. Radiohead often giving birth in pain... But, above all, it is a group without any concession. If it is more able to advance, it will not hesitate to be scuttled. In the meantime, it is a giant rock at its peak that Parisians can applaud the Domaine national de Saint-Cloud. Even if a few showers, few are those who feel the rain.