Over the next couple of years of touring, the band began to lose patience with the track and the sort of clientele it attracted to their concerts. A censored version of the number was then released to radio stations and, gradually, it became an American alt-rock anthem-one that still persists to this day. It spread like wildfire across college campuses and can even be traced back to one Californian college who added the song to a radio playlist in San Francisco. Though the Oxford-based group had found moderate success and interest in Britain by this time, ‘Creep’ became an underground hit for the band in the United States. It is one of the things I’m always trying: To assert a sexual persona and on the other hand trying desperately to negate it.” To actually assert yourself in a masculine way without looking like you’re in a hard-rock band is a very difficult thing to do… It comes back to the music we write, which is not effeminate, but it’s not brutal in its arrogance. In 1993, Yorke said of the song: “I have a real problem being a man in the ’90s… Any man with any sensitivity or conscience toward the opposite sex would have a problem. Written in 1987 while Yorke was studying at Exeter University, the premise is simple, the song is about being in love with someone and assuming you’re not good enough for them. Given their plethora of masterpieces created over an astonishing 35-year career, the fact that this one song is often the focus of people’s attention is a repeated frustration for its creator Thom Yorke and the rest of the band too. Radiohead college dorm hero ‘Creep’, a song which is unquestionably the band’s biggest hit, remains a repeated source of anguish for the group.