Paranoid Android Paranoid Android "Paranoid Android" is a song by the English alternative rock band Radiohead, released as the lead single from their third studio album "OK Computer" (1997) on 26 May 1997. The darkly humorous lyrics were written primarily by singer Thom Yorke following an unpleasant experience in a Los Angeles bar. The song is almost six minutes long and contains four distinct sections. "Paranoid Android" takes its name from Marvin the Paranoid Android of Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series. Released as the lead single from "OK Computer", "Paranoid Android" charted at number three on the UK
Places in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy to be Zaphod Beeblebrox. Islington also was the location of the cave in which Arthur lived during Earth's prehistoric period, as described in the third novel. Two million years later, exactly the same spot was the location of Fenchurch's home as described in the fourth novel. Islington is a former home of Douglas Adams, in which he wrote much of the first novel, and drew inspiration from his surroundings; in particular a real estate agent called "Hotblack Desiato", a name he took for a rock musician in the series. A particular love of its creator, the Magrathean Slartibartfast, who eulogises