Yorke Unveils Mulcahy/Miracle Legion Vid

"All For The Best"comes from forthcoming Mulcahy tribute album, due Sept. 29.

By Fred Mills

A few years ago I interviewed Mark Mulcahy, and over the course of several hours he talked about his tenure with Miracle Legion and his subsequent solo career. At one point he turned reflective:

"Maybe music's not as important [to today's generation] as it maybe was to you or me. And maybe it doesn't even matter anymore. There's plenty of ways to look around for bands. I do think that MTV has been the death - the irony of them being called Music TV is not lost on people. It killed people going to check out music since they could turn the TV on and see music all the time. [But] with everything that went wrong, many things went right, and I'm happy because I got into it to make music, and I'm still making music. So at the end of the day, I win. I'm real lucky, and I've done other things too."

A lot of folks apparently took notice of what Mulcahy's done over the years, judging by the all-star roster of musicians who pitched in on that upcoming Mulcahy/Miracle Legion tribute album Ciao My Shining Star, due out Sept. 29 on Shout! Factory. Among those artists are Thom Yorke, whose version of M.L.'s "All For the Best" is an obvious standout. Today at RollingStone.com the video for Yorke's tune premiered, and it's alternately moving, haunting and heart-breaking. You can view it HERE.

Watch this website soon for an encore presentation of my Mulcahy interview. A full review of the tribute album will also be in the new print issue of BLURT.