In a post revealing the find to Reddit’s Radiohead forum, he joked that he’s off to “figure out where the heck that Kid A mountain range is. And he cross-referenced that info with the band’s gig schedule in 1996 to figure out the date that the photo was likely taken: August 20, 1996. Jordan117 took that info and cross-referenced it with Google Earth to figure out that the shot was taken in the nearby hotel. Some enterprising Radiohead fans have seemingly discovered the location of the highway featured on the cover of the band’s 1997 classic OK Computer.One inquisitive Redditor enlisted the help of. So, what interstate junctions in the east might fit the that BGS criteria? E Hartford and New Haven.”

I figured that it was east of the Mississippi because of the (IMO) tight footprint of the interchange. The BGS on the right has a two word city but two actual words. “The middle BGS has a two word control city with just a single letter as the first word. The photo is an I-84 in Hartford, CT, likely taken from the window of a nearby Hilton hotel. He quickly had an answer from forum reader MapMikey. It only took 20 years but Radiohead’s always-down-to-sleuth fans finally found the location of the photo used for the cover art of their landmark album OK Computer.Īfter the band shared earlier versions of the art in celebration of the album’s upcoming anniversary, Reddit user Jordan117 enlisted the help of a forum of highway geeks to try and find the location of the washed-out interchange. Location of OK Computer album cover revealed: photo (likely) taken from a Hilton Hotel window in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1996 /5W1TajM2Ru

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