The result was Exit Music (For a Film), the first of OK Computer’s tracks to be completed. While in the US they were approached by filmmaker Baz Luhrman, who wanted them to record a song for his film Romeo + Juliet. After struggling to get their ideas on tape, the band set off on a US tour with four new songs added to their repertoire. In July 1996 they began rehearsing and recording at their Canned Applause Studio in Oxfordshire. The band decided to self-produce OK Computer with Godrich. Lucky was recorded in just five hours with engineer Nigel Godrich, and the band felt good about their work with Godrich. The foundation for what would become OK Computer was laid when they recorded a track, Lucky, for Brian Eno’s charity compilation The Help Album. Frontman Thom Yorke said he wanted to avoid making “ another miserable, morbid and negative record.” Following their introspective and downbeat second album, 1995’s The Bends, Radiohead wanted to move in a more upbeat direction for their third album.

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