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.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Rainbows>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
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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Wiktionary's word of the day:
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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Wikiquote quote of the day:
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>
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