Thom Yorke’s longtime partner, Rachel Owen, has died of cancer https://t.co/EmfRJWW8L9 pic.twitter.com/NsffeCLENA
— billboard (@billboard) December 20, 2016
Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke’s longtime partner, Rachel Owen, has passed away at the age of 48 after a battle with cancer.
The couple broke up in 2015 and their split inspired much of the music on Radiohead’s album, A Moon Shaped Pool.
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Owen was a celebrated artist in her own right. In addition to being a lecturer at the University of Oxford’s Pembroke College, she was also renowned for her work as a printmaker.
She and Yorke were together for 23 years and shared two teenage children.
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