I had to spend a few weeks in hospital at the end of 97 and was lying in bed really miserable when my younger brother came to see me with this on CD and his portable CD player(remember them). After he left i put the OK computer on and put the headphones on. I must've spent a fortune on batteries over the next week as it was hardly ever off. It helped me greatly as the following week or so passed quickly and I got better. Sadly my brother is no longer with us but memories like this help.

This song is hard as hell to play on the guitar. Incredible musicians.

I remember this performance being broadcast, it even caught my dad's attention and he was a die-hard pink floyd fan. (He was about 50 in 1997) when it came to the choral part of this, he actually stopped drying the dishes to come watch it! 😂

So glad Dave Grohl picked this to close the Jools Holland show tonight. It’s such an amazing performance that it needs a public viewing every now and then

It's not only the band that are at the top of their game here... Some excellent live production and sound engineering on this performance

I remember seeing this on Jools - the first time i heard the song. Got to the collapse at the end of the "kicking squealing" section and i thought the song was over - good job lads, nice tune. They then pulled out the choirlike interlude bit, which fried my teenage mind. Made my dad put down his paper.

I wasn't particularly a fan of Radiohead at the time, but I vividly remember watching this on Jools Holland and it blew my mind. Have bought every album since and what a journey....

Iconic performance. Also, he doesn't get enough credit but Phil Selway is a machine.

The "rain down" part sounds heavenly in this..

You can tell that all of them are great musicians.

This was the song that inspired anyone already in a band to give up, and anyone not yet in a band to start one.

i don’t think anyone is really appreciating the skill it takes Thom to play a riff like that and sing those types of vocals at the same time, a truly gifted musician. Edit: I spelt his name wrong lol

Even without Stephen Hawking's guest vocals the chorus is mesmerising...

Flawless performance. You can tell they care.

I was 15 when OK Computer was released in 1997 and I have spent the last 24 years trying to work out just how they made something so wonderous, so culturally significant and harrowingly brilliant. They were just kids. And yet this remains one of the finest, most intelligent performances of my lifetime. When Thom Yorkes voice breaks at 4:40 I still can't even cope. Utterly beautiful.

I think Tilda Swinton could play Thom Yorke

One of the greatest songs of all time.

I'm a 55 year old American woman watching this with tears in my eyes. One of the best bands/ songs of the 90's. None of my friends really get me.

In my humble opinion one of the finest live performances ever from a great band

There’s at least three songs in this song, and each would have been extraordinary on their own. Together they make an absolute masterpiece.

Best live performance of this song... period

This is my favorite performance of my favorite song by my favorite band!

I asked my friends to play that interlude at my funeral with the ending “God loves his childrean God loves his children, yeah”. But those bastards will probably play that part in Karma Police that goes “This is what you get when you mess with us”.

Arguably the best performance by any band on Jools Holland.

This is the stairway to heaven of my generation

Paranoid Android was the Bohemian Rhapsody of the 90's

Without a doubt the masterpiece of this band. This theme has everything musically possible, madness, psychedelia, hope, sadness. A song that will surely be forever in the collective consciousness of all of us who know how to appreciate this art of music. This theme is installed in the great hymns of rock.

47yr old BLACK MAN here....kevin gates ALL the WAY!! BUT....this mans voice does something to my SOUL!!!

this band is just ridiculously brilliant imo, the sheer volume of amazing songs over all these years is staggering.

The crowd cant believe what they have just watched. Unreal performance

Johnny just running from thing to thing. Such a huge part of the sound.

Imagine being the poor bastards having to follow this up. I’d have just called a taxi!

The band that had to follow this performance: “Nope.”

Goddamn Johnny is such an amazing lead guitarist

simply one of the best songs ever written

Ed O'Brien's voice really sounds a lot like Thom Yorke's voice. He's a good singer.

one of the most powerful songs ever written

That was a superb performance. Had no idea Radiohead were that good live.

This theme is one of the songs of the century.

this album changed my life in 97. I remember coming from classic rock into this. major head blown! it was like reading Kafka for the 1st time tho this is a never ending metamorphosis. album after album radiohead get better and better. WHAT A BAND!

Twenty years on and still a brilliant song.....

Shout out to whoever edited this, it tells the story of the song by switching from instrument to instrument at the perfect time to highlight separate elements that come to the fore

Years later, it's an astonishing performance.

One of the all time greatest live performances

Holy cow. The whole thing is astounding, but especially the ferocious and mind-melting stuff out of Johnny starting at 2:54. Or actually, starting at the beginning and ending at the end.

This was never my favourite song...it was almost too god as weird as that sounds. Revisiting it and seeing it live though is mind blowing. It's so complex, and they absolutely nail it. I don't think anybody touches them. The consistency of their work. Their evolution. Phenomenal.

One of the most phenomenal live performances of any song, ever.

I love the couple of seconds of stunned silence at the end!

Amazing song. Amazing performance. Amazing album. Amazing band.

was lucky enough to see them on their OK Computer tour in Wellington NZ in the late '90s. 20 years on and it is still one of the best gigs I've been to - and they blew the roof off with this song. Right up there with the greatest songs of the rock era.

OK Computer tour Brighton Centre September 14 1997. Mind-blowing gig. No one's come close to creating a total sense of pure euphoria. Everyone who was at that gig knew something incredible was occurring. Never seen reactions on people's faces like that at any show since. An astonishing performance that still sends a shiver down my spine when I think about it. Thanks Radiohead. Thank you.

Simply a seminal performance... They will be watching this in hundreds of years time... absolutely extraordinary.

ok computer 20 years ahead of its time.

Simply, one of the greatest songs ever.

i will never mentally escape from this song. this song is the only thing that audiolizes my pessimistic side perfectly

This is better than the studio version imo.

This a masterpiece.

Just stupidly good

im not a 90s kid nor was i alive in the 90s but i wish i was... this song is timeless. so beautiful. makes u feel all the emotions

fucking amazing. Hendrix would not only approve, he would beg to copy it. The New Floyd.

Thanks for uploading one of their best performances of this song! It's hard finding this one nowadays.

The sound quality is absolutely fantastic! Wow. The way you can really hear every guitar and bass bit separately is actually damn beautiful! Thank you. Brilliant!!! Also Ed’s vocals are beautifully executed.

How they pulled that song off live is fucking crazy...very talented guys.

Ed looks cooler doing nothing than most guitar players do when they are actually playing.

Everything about this is perfect. The musicianship is outstanding and the song is a piece of sublime genius.

This is what i call an iconic performance

Ok computer was the soundtrack to my life in my college years... 16, 17, 18. It was mesmeric. I was moving from adolescence into adulthood and listened to this constantly. I’d put my earphones in and go on a journey that the music created in my mind. When I listen to these tracks now, I’m taken back to that time in my life and the things I was thinking, feeling and experiencing. It seemed to capture the social and political mood perfectly as well. Very powerful album, an all time great and a work of art.

Jesus's that was fucking live??? incredible

The reception at the end is a testament to how great this song and performance was!!!

I never tire of writing and convincing many that this subject of these Britons is the subject of the 21st century.

What Genre is this? Thom: Yes.

It’s like Radiohead has a Ph.D in music production from Harvard while everybody else barely made it through community college.

we were lucky to have been young at a time music was this great

it took me about 2.5 years to learn this whole riff on guitar. Best time I've ever spent without a shadow of a doubt.

Who remembers the first time they heard this album on CD? I was wearing headphones literally sitting in shock at the end of it. Emotional sonic experience. Not of this Earth.

Was born in 2005. My dad had raised me on radiohead. Sadly our relationship now is unsalvageable due to powers out of our control, Listening to this is almost like a little time with my dad, it's amazing, live version makes it better. cheers.

Ok, I'm an old fogey coming to this for the first time as I was too busy to do much more than build up my career and look after my family in the 90s. My opinion, f***ing brilliant

oh my god, this version is back again...for now

"Kicking, squealing, Gucci, little pigg[ies]." Met a few of those in my time.

20 years

Just listened to this album for the first time in a long time today. Its still prophetic, inspiring, illuminating, futuristic and utter genius. It will never age. An album of unmatched power. Nothing else has come close since.

For me this is the definitive version of this song. It has it all and whoever mic'd the drums needs a pat on the back. Just perfection.

Possibly one of the best performances of one of the best songs by one of the best bands ever - it’s otherworldly

Can you imagine the band after them that had to play ..... I am quite sure with 100% certainty that they shit their collective pants

thank you for upload this video again, my favorite rendition of this song ever.

I love this more than the studio version 😍

You don't get many true masterpiece rock songs. This is right there with Bohemian Rhapsody.

Came back from the record store with this album...and i was never the same.

I don't even know how they arrive at a song such as this.. it's just genius. Jonny is a fucking god with his guitar solos, one of the all time great guitarists. Sure there might be many that have better technical skills but jonny has such a unique sound that's very hard to replicate and that's what really makes a great guitarist

The bass tone you can listen in this performance is just beautiful

Absolutely spectacular. Maybe the greatest rendition of the greatest song ever created. Pure perfection. Radiohead are a gift to the world that the world doesn't understand or deserve.

The most amazing performance of music I’ve ever seen. Addictive

Someone in the comments saying this brought tears to their eyes. Thought I'd share my own story. I consider this to be my all time favourite song. I have listened to it hundreds of times. Yet, only a year or so ago I was listening to it again in my car - now as a grown man and a father of two. As I was listening to it, my worries about the future and particularly the environmental mess that we are likely leaving for the next generation, and the frustration at the political inertia that has trapped us in a state of nothingness for so long - were at the forefront of my mind. As it got to " ... the panic, the vomit, the panic, the vomit. God loves his children. God loves his children, yeah" the words resonated so much that I was also nearly in tears. It's amazing that, despite knowing the song like the back of my hand, it can still have that power.

I remember the first time I heard this song it stopped me in my tracks and I fell in love with Radiohead.

thank you for showing me this wonderful band dad. i'll be sure to show my kids too.

His voice through the bridge is so pure. Even moreso than in the album version. Incredibly emotive.

Ed’s vocals! ❤️

I was a young single mom to a newborn son when this album came out. I was a little sad that all my friends were out on the town living it up while I was home with my beautiful boy. He loved to be held while I would gently dance around with him in my arms and always fell fast asleep listening to Radiohead. Their wonderful music worked like a charm everytime!

I just heard "Creep" and thought "I wonder if that performance of Paranoid Android from Jools Holland is on here yet?" And it is! Every bit as great as I remember after 24 years. Knocks the album version out of the park.

Still sounds awesome in 2019