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True Love Waits: The Song That Took Radiohead 21 Years to Create

True Love Waits: The Song That Took Radiohead 21 Years to Create

Update: 2025-08-04
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Radiohead debuted "True Love Waits" in Brussels in 1995 while on tour for The Bends. They tried to capture it in the studio for OK Computer, then again for Kid A and Amnesiac, failing at every turn. Yet fans LOVED it. This is the story of Radiohead's 'secret song,' "True Love Waits," and how things finally came together for their 2016 album A Moon Shaped Pool. The result was unexpected. The result was perfect. The result was worth the wait.


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đź“• Read the transcript and hear the songs on the Poetic Wax Substack.


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Poetic Wax is a weekly music history series hosted by Andy Fenstermaker, where he digs into the record collection he's been building since the 1990s to uncover the sometimes little told stories behind the artists, albums, and songs from within.

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True Love Waits: The Song That Took Radiohead 21 Years to Create

True Love Waits: The Song That Took Radiohead 21 Years to Create

Andy Fenstermaker