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=== Tours ===
Radiohead toured extensively for ''The Bends'', with performances in North America, Europe and Japan.{{sfn|Randall|2012}} They first toured in support of [[Soul Asylum]], then R.E.M., one of their formative influences and one of the world's biggest rock bands at the time.<ref name="Randall" /> Yorke said about the tour with R.E.M: "Everything that we've come to expect was completely turned on its head. Like the idea that you get to a certain level and you lose it. Everything was amicable and there was no bitchiness or pettiness about it."<ref name="Gilbert-1996" /> The US tour included a performance at the [[KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas]] concert at the [[Universal Amphitheatre]] in Los Angeles, alongside [[Oasis (band)|Oasis]], [[Alanis Morissette]], [[No Doubt]] and [[Porno for Pyros]]. The Capitol employee Clark Staub described the performance as a "key stepping stone" for Radiohead in the US.{{sfn|Randall|2012}}

Before a performance in New York City, Yorke suffered a breakdown and begged Radiohead's tour manager to book him a flight home; he was persuaded to stay by his bandmates.<ref name="Dalton-2016" /> In November 1995, Yorke became sick and collapsed on stage at a show in Munich. ''NME'' covered the incident in a story titled "Thommy's Temper Tantrum". Yorke said it was the most hurtful thing anyone had written about him, and refused to give interviews to ''NME'' for five years.<ref name="Dalton-2016" /> Before a performance in Denver, Colorado, Radiohead's tour van was stolen and with it their musical equipment. Yorke and Jonny Greenwood performed a stripped-down set with rented instruments and several shows were cancelled. Greenwood was reunited with his stolen [[Fender Telecaster Plus]] in 2015 after a fan recognised it as one they had purchased in Denver in the 1990s.<ref name="StolenEquipment2">{{cite news |last=Enriquez |first=Julio |date=23 February 2015 |title=Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood reunited with guitar stolen in Denver in 1995 |url=https://www.denverpost.com/2015/02/23/radioheads-jonny-greenwood-reunited-guitar-stolen-in-denver-in-1995/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180923200713/https://www.denverpost.com/2015/02/23/radioheads-jonny-greenwood-reunited-guitar-stolen-in-denver-in-1995/ |archive-date=23 September 2018 |access-date=11 January 2019 |work=[[Denver Post]] |language=en-US}}</ref> 

In March 1996, Radiohead toured the US again and performed on ''[[The Tonight Show]]'' and ''[[120 Minutes]]''. In mid-1996, they played at European festivals including [[Pinkpop Festival|Pinkpop]] in Holland, [[Torhout-Werchter|Tourhout Werchter]] in Belgium and [[T in the Park]] in Scotland.{{sfn|Randall|2012}} That August, Radiohead toured as the opening act for Alanis Morissette,<ref>{{cite journal |last=Moran |first=Caitlin |author-link=Caitlin Moran |date=July 1997 |title=Everything was just fear. |journal=[[Select (magazine)|Select]] |page=84}}</ref> performing early versions of songs from their next album, ''[[OK Computer]]''.<ref name="Rhapsody in Gloom">{{citation |last=Greene |first=Andy |title=Radiohead's rhapsody in gloom: ''OK Computer'' 20 years later |date=31 May 2017 |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/exclusive-thom-yorke-and-radiohead-on-ok-computer-w484570 |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170531145331/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/exclusive-thom-yorke-and-radiohead-on-ok-computer-w484570 |url-status=live |archive-date=31 May 2017}}</ref> Morissette said later: "It was really grounding for me to be with such bona-fide-to-the-bone artists. It felt really validating because the industry was very wild and patriarchal, so to be on the road with such true savants was a gift for me."<ref name="Greene-2017" />