How to Disappear Completely

"How to Disappear Completely"
"How to Disappear Completely"
	Belgium promotional single cover
Promotional single by Radiohead
from the album Kid A
A-side	"Idioteque" (double A-side)
Written	June 1997
Released	27 September 2000
Recorded	1 December 1999 – 4 February 2000
Studio	Canned Applause (Oxfordshire); Dorchester Abbey (Oxfordshire);
Genre	Folk rock; post-rock; pop; orchestral; ambient;
Length	5:56 (original version); 6:37 (Evening Session version);
Label	Parlophone; Capitol; EMI Belgium;
Songwriter(s)	Thom Yorke; Jonny Greenwood; Ed O'Brien; Colin Greenwood; Philip Selway;
Producer(s)	Nigel Godrich; Radiohead;
Licensed audio
	"How to Disappear Completely" on YouTube

"How to Disappear Completely" is a song by the English rock band Radiohead from their fourth studio album, Kid A (2000). It was produced by the band with their producer, Nigel Godrich, and was released as a promotional single in the US, Poland and Belgium.

Radiohead wrote "How to Disappear Completely" in mid-1997 during the tour for their third album, OK Computer (1997). The title derives from Doug Richmond's 1985 book How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found. Radiohead first performed it in 1998 during the tour, and an early soundcheck performance appears in their documentary Meeting People Is Easy (1998).

"How to Disappear Completely" is an acoustic ballad backed by orchestral strings and guitar effects. Radiohead recorded demos in various studios before recording it at their Oxfordshire studio in January 2000. The following month, the strings were recorded and performed by the Orchestra of St John's in a church near the band's studio, arranged by the multi-instrumentalist Jonny Greenwood on an ondes Martenot.

"How to Disappear Completely" was included on the special edition of Radiohead: The Best Of (2008). The song and its isolated strings track were included on the compilation Kid A Mnesia (2021).

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