In Rainbows is the seventh studio album by the English rock band Radiohead. It was first released on 10 October 2007 as a digital download self-released, that customers could order for whatever price they saw fit, followed by a standard CD release in most countries during the last week of 2007. The album was released in North America on 1 January 2008 on TBD Records. In Rainbows was Radiohead's first release after the end of their contract with EMI and the end of the longest gap between studio albums in their career. Recording with producer Nigel Godrich, Radiohead worked on In Rainbows for more than two years, beginning in early 2005. In between recording, the band toured Europe and North America for three months in mid-2006. The songwriting on In Rainbows was more personal than that on Radiohead's other albums, with singer Thom Yorke describing most tracks as his versions of "seduction songs". Radiohead incorporated a wide variety of musical styles and instruments on the album, using not only electronic music and string arrangements, but also pianos, celestes, and the ondes Martenot. The album earned widespread critical acclaim, and was ranked as one of the best albums of 2007 by several publications. In 2012, Rolling Stone magazine ranked the album no. 336 on their updated version of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
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1807:
Robert Fulton's North River Steamboat, the world's first commercially successful paddle steamer, went into service. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_River_Steamboat
1945:
Animal Farm, British author George Orwell's satirical allegory of Soviet totalitarianism, was first published. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Farm
1950:
Korean War: A North Korean Army unit massacred 42 American prisoners of war so that they would not slow the North Koreans down (memorial pictured). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_303_massacre
1959:
Kind of Blue by Miles Davis, one of the best selling and most critically acclaimed jazz recordings of all time, was released. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kind_of_Blue
1998:
U.S. President Bill Clinton admitted in taped testimony that he had an "improper physical relationship" with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewinsky_scandal
2009:
A turbine at Sayano–Shushenskaya Dam in Khakassia, Russia, broke apart violently, flooding the power station, causing widespread power failures, and killing 75 people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Sayano-Shushenskaya_hydro_accident
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remuneration: 1. Something given in exchange for goods or services rendered. 2. A payment for work done; wages, salary, emolument. 3. A recompense for a loss; compensation. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/remuneration
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The Iron Man came to the top of the cliff. How far had he walked? Nobody knows. Where did he come from? Nobody knows. How was he made? Nobody knows. Taller than a house the Iron Man stood at the top of the cliff, at the very brink, in the darkness. --Ted Hughes https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ted_Hughes