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"Paranoid Android" is a song by Radiohead, from their highly acclaimed third album, OK Computer. Despite its unusual length of over six minutes, it was the first single from that album in 1997. The song's release marks Radiohead's ascent as innovators in the art rock genre, and is still considered by many to be the band's best work. Guitarist Colin Greenwood said "On 'Paranoid Android' what we were into was the idea of a DJ Shadow meets The Beatles thing." Thom Yorke also compared the song to The Beatles' work, saying "it really started out as three separate songs and we didn't know what to do with them. Then we thought of 'Happiness is a Warm Gun' — which was obviously three different bits that John Lennon put together — and said 'Why don't we try that?'" ("Happiness is a Warm Gun" is a song from The Beatles' White Album).

The title is a reference to a character from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy named " Marvin the Paranoid AndroidMarvin the Paranoid Android is a fictional character in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams. Marvin is the ship's robot aboard the starship Heart of Gold''. Severely depressed, Marvin was built as a prototype of Sirius Cybernetics", but the song does not seem to be about the character. Some have speculated that the group uses the phrase to mock the tyrant depicted in the song.

"Paranoid Android" has been covered by several artistAn artist is someone who employs creative talent to produce works of art. The term may be used in connection with any branch of the arts—for example music, literature, and theatre—but more commonly refers to an individual who practises the visual arts ors, including jazzFor other article subjects named Jazz see jazz (disambiguation). Jazz is a musical art form characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms, and improvisation. It has been called the first original art form to develop in th pianistThis article deals with those who play the piano. For other uses, see pianist (disambiguation). A pianist is a person who plays the piano reasonably well. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an orchestra or smaller ensemble, or accom Brad MehldauBrad Mehldau (born August 23, 1970) is an American jazz pianist. His classical training shows, and he often plays a separate melody with each hand in odd rhythmic meters such as 5/4 and 7/4. Mehldau plays original compositions, jazz standards and popular.

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Paranoid Android [1] is also the name of a Mac OS XMac OS X is the latest version of the Mac OS operating system for Macintosh computers. Developed and published by Apple Computer, it provides the stability of a Unix operating environment and adds popular features of the traditional Macintosh user interfa utility program from Unsanity LLC.

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