Radiohead are from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England, where the band first formed in the mid‑1980s.

Band origins

  • Radiohead formed at Abingdon School, a boys’ school in the town of Abingdon in Oxfordshire.
  • The members later regrouped and continued as an English rock band based out of the Oxfordshire area.

Quick context

  • The group officially formed in 1985, originally under the name “On a Friday,” before taking the name Radiohead a few years later.
  • Abingdon is just south of the city of Oxford, so Radiohead are often described as an English band from the Oxford/Oxfordshire scene.

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