Lucky (Radiohead song)

In 1995, Radiohead were on tour, promoting their second album, The Bends. During soundchecks for shows in Japan, guitarist Ed O'Brien produced a high-pitched sound by strumming above the guitar nut. The band developed the sound into a song, "Lucky", which became part of the set list. Around this time, the producer Brian Eno asked Radiohead to contribute a song to The Help Album, a charity compilation organised by the charity War Child. The album was to be recorded in a single day, 4 September 1995, and rush-released that week. Radiohead recorded "Lucky" in five hours with engineer Nigel Godrich, who had assisted producer John Leckie with The Bends and produced several Radiohead B-sides. Yorke later said "Lucky" shaped the nascent sound and mood of OK Computer. He said: "'Lucky' was indicative of what we wanted to do. It was like the first mark on the wall." ==Release==

To promote The Help Album, "Lucky" featured as the lead track on the Help EP, which charted at number 51 after BBC Radio 1 chose not to play it. It was included as the 11th track on Radiohead's album OK Computer. "Lucky" was originally slated to be released as a single from the album, but due to circumstances beyond the band's control, it was issued as a physical single only in France on 26 December 1997. ==Track listing==