This Week in Music History: October 7 - 13 -- Thom Yorke & Simon Cowell's Link, ZZ Top's Space Travel

We've been living with Radiohead for so long it's easy to take them for granted.

After all, who wouldn't want to forget that when the British band first came to America their song "Creep" was marketed directly to Beavis and Butt-head MTV slackers. Or that period where Thom Yorke had badly dyed blonde hair.

But then you remember they've also done oddly wonderful covers of Glen Campbell's "Rhinestone Cowboy" and there was that whole Googly Minotaur thing and suddenly you're listening to The Bends again and going, "Why does this album get ignored?! It's brilliant!"

It has just dawned on us, however, that Radiohead might have a greater purpose -- to maintain the cosmic balance between good and evil.

To find out why, and to learn why ZZ Top, Dave Grohl and Muse made musical history this week, just click to launch the gallery below.

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