1. Colin Charles Greenwood was born on 26 June 1969 and is an English bassist and a member of the rock band Radiohead.
25 Facts About Colin Greenwood
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Colin Greenwood was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Radiohead in 2019.
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Colin Greenwood has contributed to solo projects by the other members of Radiohead, and has collaborated with musicians including Tamino, Gaz Coombes, Nick Cave and Warren Ellis.
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Colin Greenwood is the older brother of the Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood.
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The Colin Greenwood family has historical ties to the British Communist Party and the socialist Fabian Society.
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Colin Greenwood lived in Germany as a child and became fluent in German.
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Colin Greenwood enjoyed films by Jean-Luc Godard, Derek Jarman and Michelangelo Antonioni.
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Colin Greenwood credited his older sister, Susan, with introducing him and Jonny to "miserable" bands such as the Fall, Magazine and Joy Division.
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Colin Greenwood said he began playing bass out of necessity, as O'Brien already played guitar.
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Colin Greenwood taught himself by playing along to New Order, Joy Division and Otis Redding.
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Colin Greenwood read English at Peterhouse, Cambridge, between 1987 and 1990, and read modern American literature including Cheever, Raymond Carver and other postwar American writers.
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Colin Greenwood mostly plays fingerstyle, and said he was unskilled with plectrums.
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Colin Greenwood mainly uses Fender basses and Ampeg and Ashdown amplifiers.
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Colin Greenwood plays double bass on tracks such as "Pyramid Song" and "You and Whose Army".
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Colin Greenwood said he did not think of himself as a bass player and was "just in a band with other people".
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In 1997, Colin Greenwood participated in a campaign to encourage students from state schools to apply for his alma mater, Cambridge University.
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In 2004, Colin Greenwood participated on a panel in the annual sixth-form conference run by Radley College in collaboration with School of St Helen and St Katharine, speaking about digital rights management.
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Colin Greenwood contributed bass to two soundtracks by his brother, Jonny, Bodysong and Inherent Vice, and on his score for the 2008 film Woodpecker.
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Colin Greenwood played bass on the albums Amir and Sahar by the Belgian-Egyptian singer Tamino, the album World's Strongest Man by Gaz Coombes, and on "Brasil" from Earth, the debut solo album by his Radiohead bandmate Ed O'Brien.
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In late 2022, Colin Greenwood toured Australia as part of Nick Cave and Warren Ellis's band.
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Colin Greenwood appeared on their 2023 live album Australian Carnage.
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Colin Greenwood joined Cave's North American tour in September 2023, and contributed bass to the 2024 album Wild God by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.
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Colin Greenwood joined Cave and the Bad Seeds on their 2024 tour after their bassist, Martyn P Casey, fell ill.
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That October, Colin Greenwood published a book, How to Disappear: A Portrait of Radiohead, comprising his photographs of Radiohead taken between 2003 and 2016.
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In December 1998, Colin Greenwood married Molly McGrann, an American literary critic and novelist.