Colin Greenwood
Colin Greenwood was born in Oxford, England, United Kingdom on June 26th, 1969 and is the Bassist. At the age of 55, Colin Greenwood biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Colin Greenwood (born 26 June 1969) is an English musician and bassist for the alternative rock band Radiohead.
Greenwood, his younger brother, and Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood, attended Abingdon School in Oxford, England, where he met the future band members.
Since receiving critical acclaim and have sold over 30 million albums, Radiohead has maintained their success.
Greenwood, as well as bass guitar, also plays upright bass and electronic guitars.
Early life
Colin Greenwood is the older brother of Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood. Their father served in the British Army as a bomb disposal specialist. The Greenwood family has a long history with the British Communist Party and the Communist Fabian Society.
Greenwood was fluent in German as a child and has since been living in Germany. "She's to blame for our precocious love of miserable music as teenagers," Greenwood credited to his older sister Susan's influence on his and Jonny's musical tastes as teenagers. Joy Division, the fall issue of the Fall Magazine. Because everyone else was into Iron Maiden, we were ostracized at school."
Thom Yorke, the future Radiohead singer, attended Abingdon School, Oxford's only independent school for boys, when Greenwood was 12. Ed O'Brien, a student of the Opera Trial by Jury's, and Philip Selway attended the academy.
Greenwood bought his first guitar when he was 15 years old. He studied classical guitar under Abingdon music teacher Terence Gilmore-James, who introduced him and the other future members of Radiohead to jazz, film scores, postwar avant-garde music, and twentieth-century classical music. "Before starting, it was very important that we get his help," Greenwood said because we weren't getting any from him." You'll recall that the man sent us a bill requesting the use of school property once we rented in one of the music rooms on a Sunday."
According to Greenwood, he began playing bass out of necessity, teaching himself by attending New Order, Joy Division, and Otis Redding. Booker T and the MGs, Bill Withers, and Curtis Mayfield are among his musical influences. "We picked up their respective instruments so we could enjoy music together rather than just because we wanted to play that particular instrument." So it was more of a group effort, and if you were able to help by having someone else play your instrument, it was really cool."
Greenwood read English at Peterhouse, Cambridge, between 1987 and 1990, as well as modern American literature, including Raymond Carver, John Cheever, and other postwar American writers. He served as an events and entertainments officer while at Peterhouse.
Personal life
Thomas Pynchon, V.S., is one of Greenwood's favorite writers. Naipaul and Delmore Schwartz are two of the Naipaul and Delmore Schwartz families. Molly McGrann, an American literary critic and novelist, married him in December 1998. Jesse, born in December 2003, Asa, born in December 2005, and Henry, born in December 2009. They live in Oxford, Oxfordshire.
Greenwood is an amateur photographer. In 2003, he discussed his favorite photographs in the Victoria and Albert Museum, among other things, selecting photographs by Frederick Sommer and Harold Edgerton.
Career
Colin Greenwood and A&R representative Keith Wozencroft at Our Price, the record store where Greenwood worked, signed a six-album recording deal with EMI on Friday and changed their name to Radiohead. Radiohead had sold more than 30 million albums worldwide by 2011. In March 2019, they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Colin, who is in a band with his younger brother Jonny, said, "I love him as a person and a musician."