It happened to be the right key and the right speed and it fit right in." The song ends, as does the second section, with a short chromatically descending guitar motif. After a second solo, a brief guitar riff is introduced, which Jonny Greenwood says "was something I had floating around for awhile and the song needed a certain burn. The fourth and final section begins at 4:58, and is a coda that resolves to the tempo, key and musical patterns of the second movement. This section uses multi-tracked, choral vocal arrangement and according to Dai Griffiths, a "chord sequence would sound seedy, rather like something by the band Portishead". The third section was written entirely by Jonny Greenwood, and reduces the tempo to 63 BPM and changes key to C minor/D minor. Ending the second section is a distorted guitar solo played by Jonny Greenwood, which lasts from 2:43 to 3:33. Although the second section retains the tempo of the first, it differs rhythmically. The second section is written in the key of A minor and begins about two minutes into the song. The melody of the these opening vocal lines span an octave and a third. The opening segment is played in the key of G minor with a tempo of 84 BPM, and begins with a mid-tempo acoustic guitar backed by shaken percussion before layered with electric guitar and Yorke's vocals. Paranoid Android has four distinct sections, each played in standard tuning, and a 4/4 time signature, although several three-bar segments in the second section are played in 7/8 timing. However, it took the band a year and a half to learn how to play the final version in live performance. Radiohead were inspired by the editing of The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour (described by Colin Greenwood as "brutal"), to shorten the song to a final six and a half minutes, a process that lead to Jonny Greenwood's organ section being replaced by a substantially shorter guitar fade out. We'd bring out the glockenspiel and it would be really, really funny." Before the song's first live performance, Yorke informed audiences that "f you can have sex to this one, you’re fucking weird." He also sarcastically referred to the version of the song played during the tour as "a Pink Floyd cover". There was a rave down section and a Hammond organ outro, and we'd be pissing ourselves while we played. O'Brien said "when we started playing it live, it was completely hilarious. Radiohead played this extended version during a tour with Alanis Morissette in September 1996, but the first 'known' version dates back from July 6 at the Rock Werchter Festival (Torhout leg). The first edit was over 14 minutes long and included a long organ interlude performed by Jonny Greenwood. Paranoid Android was recorded in actress Jane Seymour's 15th century mansion (which Yorke was convinced was haunted) near the village of St Catherine, near Bath, Somerset. The band used Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody and the work of the Pixies as reference points while writing yet Ed O'Brien denies they wrote "a Bohemian Rhapsody for the nineties", while Jonny Greenwood considers it too tense and simple to rival Queen's song. In an early interview, Colin Greenwood described it "just a joke, a laugh, getting wasted together over a couple of evenings and putting some different pieces together". The rest of the song is not personal at all." And that was the end of writing about anything personal in the song. It was like, 'Oh, I'm so depressed.' And I just thought, that's great.
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