Anyone Can Play Guitar

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"Radiohead"
Single by Radiohead
from the album 'Pablo Honey'
Released	1 February 1993
Format	vinyl record (12"), CD and cassette
Genre	Rock
Length	3:37
Label	Parlophone
Producer(s)	?
Chart positions
32 (UK)
Radiohead singles chronology
"Creep" (1993)	"Anyone Can Play Guitar" (1993)	Pop Is Dead" (1993)

"Anyone Can Play Guitar" was the first true single (not of limited production) taken from Radiohead's first album Pablo Honey. It made little impression on the charts but remained a staple of the band's live sets throughout the early-mid nineties.

Thom Yorke got the idea for the famous line "I wanna be Jim Morrison" after seeing The Doors movie and is meant to convey Yorke's dissatisfaction with the mythical status Morrison is given. This was made clear in the band's appearance at the MTV Beach House, where they played "Anyone Can Play Guitar", and Thom Yorke sang "Maybe if I grow my hair I can become Jim Morrison," before shouting "Fat! Ugly! Dead!".

[edit] Tracklisting

1. "Anyone Can Play Guitar"
2. "Faithless The Wonder Boy"
3. "Coke Babies"

Radiohead
Thom Yorke | Jonny Greenwood | Ed O'Brien | Colin Greenwood | Phil Selway
Stanley Donwood | Nigel Godrich
Discography
Albums: Pablo Honey | The Bends | OK Computer | Kid A | Amnesiac | Hail to the Thief
EPs: Drill | Itch | My Iron Lung | No Surprises/Running from Demons | Airbag/How Am I Driving? | I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings | COM LAG (2plus2isfive) DVDs: Live at the Astoria | 7 Television Commercials | Meeting People Is Easy | The Most Gigantic Lying Mouth Of All Time Singles: Creep | Anyone Can Play Guitar | Pop Is Dead | Stop Whispering | My Iron Lung | High and Dry/Planet Telex | Fake Plastic Trees | Just | Street Spirit (Fade Out) | Paranoid Android | Karma Police | No Surprises | Pyramid Song | Knives Out | There There | Go to Sleep | 2 + 2 = 5
Side projects
Bodysong | The Eraser | Spitting Feathers
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