Radiohead's debut single, "Creep," released in 1992, became a worldwide hit and remains their most successful single, reaching the top 10 in several countries and the top 40 on the US Billboard Hot 100. Included on their 1993 debut album, *Pablo Honey*, the song features guitar noise and lyrics about obsessive unrequited attraction. The English rock band, formed in 1985, did not initially plan to release "Creep" but recorded it at the suggestion of producers Sean Slade and Paul Q. Kolderie. Elements from the 1972 song "The Air That I Breathe" by Albert Hammond and Mike Hazlewood were used in "Creep," leading to Hammond and Hazlewood being credited as co-writers after legal action. Guitarist Ed O'Brien contributed a distinctive guitar scratching sound before the chorus. Thom Yorke, the band's vocalist, guitarist, and keyboardist, has expressed a love-hate relationship with "Creep," feeling frustrated by its mainstream success overshadowing other works.