Ed O'brien
Ed O'brien was born in Oxford, England, United Kingdom on April 15th, 1968 and is the Guitarist. At the age of 56, Ed O'brien 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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Edward John O'Brien (born 15 April 1968) is an English guitarist and member of the alternative rock band Radiohead.
O'Brien attended Abingdon School in Oxfordshire, England, where he met the other members of Radiohead.
O'Brien produces atmospheric sounds and textures with the aid of backing vocals.
In 2020, his first solo album will be released under the name EOB. Rolling Stone named O'Brien as the 59th greatest guitarist of all time in 2010.
In 2019, he and other members of Radiohead were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Early life
O'Brien was born on April 15, 1968, in the United States. His family comes from Ballyporeen, Ireland. O'Brien loved cricket and theatre as an infant. When he was ten years old, his parents split; O'Brien said it was now when music became his "refuge." He grew up listening to siouxsie and the Banshees, Adam and the Ants, Depeche Mode, the Police, and David Bowie. "It was a very foetal [time] for music, because people who attended art college or musicians, or musicians, or musicians, or musicians, suddenly thought, 'Oh, I can be that.'"
The members of Radiohead met at Abingdon School, an independent school for boys in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, when they were visiting Abingdon School, which is an independent school for boys. He met future Radiohead singer Thom Yorke, who was scoring the show while O'Brien was playing Lysander in a school production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. He begged him to join him in a jam. "Before that [life] was a little confusing, a little crap," O'Brien said. And then,...and then... "I felt something very robust, almost like some sort of epiphany, almost like: 'This is it.'"
O'Brien, as well as drummer Philip Selway, was in the year ahead of Yorke and Colin Greenwood, and three years ahead of Colin Greenwood, the multi-instrumentalist Jonny Greenwood. They formed on a Friday, the band's regular rehearsal day in the school's music room. While the band members attended university, they continued to rehearse during holidays. At the University of Manchester, O'Brien studied economics.
Personal life
Susan Kobrin, O'Brien's wife, works in London and Wales, and Amnesty International's Susan Kobrin worked in London and Wales. The couple have two children, one born in January 2004, and a daughter who was born in 2006. O'Brien is a cricket fan and supports Brentford F.C. Around 2000, he stopped drinking alcohol and started meditation; he wrote, "[Alcohol] was fucking me up." "I can carry on, or I can be a better person," I thought. He and his family immigrated to Brazil in 2011 and spent a year on a farm near Ubatuba. O'Brien revealed in March 2020 that he had contracted COVID-19 and was recovering in solitude.
Career
On a Friday, 1991, a songwriter who had signed a record deal with EMI and changed the name to Radiohead. They found early success with their debut 1992 single "Chep." OK Computer (1997), their third album, received international recognition, and is often regarded as one of the best albums of all time. O'Brien's computer saw less distortion and delay as a result of their sound, creating a sound that was "more about textures." During the lengthy OK Computer tour, O'Brien was distraught, but she concentrated on Yorke. After the tour, he returned to Oxford, took large doses of medication, and fell into depression. "I was single, on my own,... I was the lowest I've ever been," he said. It was the irony as well – you're at the top, the old cliché.
Kid A (2000) and Amnesiac (2001), Radiohead's next two albums, marked a dramatic change in sound, with elements from experimental music, classical music, jazz, and krautrock. "It's scary – everyone feels vulnerable," O'Brien said of the change of direction. "I'm a guitarist and suddenly it's like, hey, there are no guitars on this track or no drums." O'Brien began using sustain kits, which allow guitar notes to be stored indefinitely, at Michael Brook's suggestion. He created synthesiser-like sounds by mixing looping and delay effects. During the recording, O'Brien kept an online diary of Radiohead's progress.
Radiohead had sold more than 30 million albums around the world by 2011. In March 2019, they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
O'Brien performs solo under the name EOB, though EOB is a slang term. He appeared with Flood from late 2017 to early 2019. He appeared on demos with producer Ian Davenport in 2014. "Santa Teresa," his first solo album, was announced on October 4, 2019. He had written songs for years but felt they did not have the confidence to carry them to Radiohead, and felt they had a "distinct energy" that would be lost if they were to be considered a "hybrid product."
Earth, O'Brien's debut solo album, received raves on Capitol Records on April 17, 2020. It features drummer Omar Hakim, the Invisible members Nathan East and Dave Okumu, Laura Marling, Portishead guitarist Adrian Utley, Glenn Kotche, and Radiohead bassist Colin Greenwood. O'Brien's time in Brazil and attending Carnival inspired the music, which he referred to as a "musical eureka moment." "Brasil" was the first track to be released on December 5, 2019, then "Shangri-La" followed on February 6th. In February 2020, O'Brien began a North American tour; a larger Earth tour was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On the remix album McCartney III Imagined (2021), O'Brien created a remix of Paul McCartney's "Slidin'" by O'Brien.
O'Brien contributed to the soundtrack for BBC drama series Euphoria Street in 1999. On the 2003 Asian Dub Foundation album Enemy of the Enemy, he played guitar. As part of the 7 Worlds Collide tour, O'Brien and Selway performed guitar and backing vocals on their 2001 live album and their 2009 studio album The Sun Came Out.
O'Brien is a founding member of the Featured Artists Alliance, a non-profit group established to safeguard the interests of emerging musicians, particularly in the digital age. He appeared on the BBC Radio 5 Live sports show Battle Talk in support of Record Shop Day on April 16, 2011.
O'Brien created the EOB Stratocaster, Fender's most popular model guitar that went on sale in November 2017. It features a tremolo bridge and a sustainer neck pick.
O'Brien cofounded the Laundry, a work, restaurant, and nightclub that was converted from a laundry in London Fields in 2013. Hackney Council reported in 2019 that the building would be demolished to make way for luxury flats. O'Brien and Selway wrote an open letter in 2014 opposing a ban on guitars in British jails. O'Brien joined the RSPB Let Nature Sing campaign in 2019, which aimed to bring birdsong into the UK charts in order to raise concerns of bird decline in Britain. In 2020, O'Brien was involved in Ear Opener, an online video course aimed at young people who want to write songs. He testified before a DCMS committee investigating the effect of streaming on the music industry in November. He said he wanted to speak with less influential artists, who he felt were "taken advantage of."