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# Gawking at Thom Yorke
- URL: https://werd.io/gawking-at-thom-yorke/
- Published: 2024-03-24T16:47:33.000Z
- Updated: 2024-03-24T16:47:33.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:20

![Thom Yorke in 2012](https://old.werd.io/file/660058e4ca23de86d903b7e2/thumb.jpg)

Walking around Oxford, my hometown, I used to see Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke from time to time. He always looked *miserable*.

At Boots the Chemist? Miserable.

At the Ashmolean Museum? Miserable.

Having a picnic with his family? Miserable.

Walking down North Parade? Miserable.

It was only years later that I realized he was miserable because *I was looking at him*, and there must have been hundreds of other people who were doing the same.

Thom Yorke wasn’t the problem. *I* was the problem.

Sorry, Thom Yorke.

*[Photo by Jen S](https://www.flickr.com/photos/bm007/7563173616/), released under [a CC license](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/).*