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Radiohead’s Long-Awaited Reunion Was a Dream Come True Until Thom Yorke’s Confidence Collapsed

After Radiohead’s 2025 reunion tour, frontman Thom Yorke struggled to recover, but strategic work on a new solo album helped.

By Stephen Andrew Galiher

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Radiohead’s 2025 reunion tour was a huge deal for fans across the world. It almost took frontman Thom Yorke out, though, as he suffered a “self-confidence crash” afterward.

Last year, the band set out on a trek across Europe—their first in seven years—with stops in cities like Berlin, Bologna, Copenhagen, London, and Madrid. Speaking in a Rolling Stone interview, Yorke reflected on the tour, saying it was “fun” but took him “months” to recover.

“After the [2025] Radiohead tour,” he said, “even though in the middle of it, it was really fun, my response to it afterwards was to crash, like massively crash, in........

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