After much wishful thinking, Radiohead performed “Like Spinning Plates” during their last show at the O2 in London on Tuesday. The band closed out their four-show run in the city, surprising lucky fans to the Amnesiac track and giving the song its debut on their reunion tour .

“Like Spinning Plates” was built over the backing track of an early recording of “I Will” (which later appeared on 2003’s Hail to the Thief ), run in reverse. “We’d turned the tape around, and I was in another room, heard the vocal melody coming backwards, and thought, ‘That’s miles better than the right way round,’ then spent the rest of the night trying to learn the melody,” Thom Yorke told The Wire in a 2001 interview, per Citizen Insane .

Fans have responded accordingly to Tuesday’s performance,

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