![]() It was followed by a retail release on CD and vinyl formats in March, and a special "newspaper album" edition in May. The album was announced on Valentine's Day and self-released on 18 February 2011 through the Radiohead website. Following the painstaking recording and relatively conventional rock instrumentation of In Rainbows, Radiohead employed a more "spontaneous" process to develop The King of Limbs, sampling their own recordings with turntables. Radiohead finished recording their eighth album, The King of Limbs, in January 2011. The Radiohead for Haiti and Live in Praha videos were described as examples of the band's openness to fans and positivity toward non-commercial internet distribution. In September 2010, Radiohead released the soundboard recording of their 2009 Prague performance for use in another fan-made concert video. In December, a fan-made video of Radiohead's Oxfam benefit performance was released via YouTube and torrent with Radiohead's support and a "pay-what-you-want" link to donate to Oxfam. On 30 August, Selway released his debut solo album, Familial. In June, Yorke and Jonny Greenwood performed a surprise set at Glastonbury Festival, performing Eraser and Radiohead songs. Tickets were auctioned, raising over half a million US dollars for the NGO's 2010 Haiti earthquake relief. In January 2010, Radiohead played their only full concert of the year in the Los Angeles Henry Fonda Theater as a benefit for Oxfam. ![]() Yorke formed a new band to perform The Eraser live, Atoms for Peace, with musicians including Godrich and Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea, and in 2010 played eight North American shows. It was released as a free download on the Radiohead website the following week. Later that month, another new song, " These Are My Twisted Words", was leaked via torrent, possibly by Radiohead themselves. In August, they released " Harry Patch (In Memory Of)", a tribute song to Harry Patch, the last surviving British soldier to have fought in World War I, with proceeds donated to the British Legion. In May 2009, Radiohead began new recording sessions with Godrich.
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