Front Page Reviews & AIR  In Rainbows: Radiohead Bridges the
Centuries (Part 2)  Illustration by Kathleen Fulton  Miss Part
1?  Read it here   At the dawn of the new millennium Radiohead
released Kid A.  It was the last album of its kind.  Like the
Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper or U2’s Achtung Baby, it was a game-
changing record released by a rock band at the height of its
popularity and the peak of its creative powers.  Like Sgt.
Pepper and Achtung Baby it was an album that was conceived,
written and recorded with full knowledge of its context.  After
OK Computer, Radiohead had everyone’s attention.  Kid A was, in
ways both positive and negative, a response to that attention. 
Never again would a rock band be in quite the same position, and
in many ways subsequent bands would have Radiohead and Kid A to
thank for that.  Before Kid A, that old force, The Holy Church
of Rock and Roll, had defined the terms of Rock.  But by the
time the new millennium rolled around the Church had grown
complacent.  Once made up of devou