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Colin Greenwood (Colin Charles Greenwood) was born on 26 June, 1969 in Oxford, England, is an English bassist. Discover Colin Greenwood's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 54 years old?

Popular As Colin Charles Greenwood
Occupation Musician, bassist, composer
Age 54 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 26 June 1969
Birthday 26 June
Birthplace Oxford, England
Nationality United Kingdom

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Colin Greenwood Height, Weight & Measurements

At 54 years old, Colin Greenwood height is 1.74 m .

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Height 1.74 m
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Who Is Colin Greenwood's Wife?

His wife is Molly McGrann (m. 1998)

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Wife Molly McGrann (m. 1998)
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Children Jesse Greenwood

Colin Greenwood Net Worth

His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Colin Greenwood worth at the age of 54 years old? Colin Greenwood’s income source is mostly from being a successful Musician. He is from United Kingdom. We have estimated Colin Greenwood's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.

Net Worth in 2024 $1 Million - $5 Million
Salary in 2024 Under Review
Net Worth in 2023 Pending
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Source of Income Musician

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1969

Colin Charles Greenwood (born 26 June 1969) is an English musician and the bassist for the rock band Radiohead.

Along with bass guitar, Greenwood plays upright bass and electronic instruments.

With his younger brother, Jonny, Greenwood attended Abingdon School in Abingdon, England, where he met the other band members.

Radiohead have achieved critical acclaim and have sold more than 30 million albums.

1987

Greenwood read English at Peterhouse, Cambridge, between 1987 and 1990, and read modern American literature including Raymond Carver, John Cheever and other postwar American writers.

While at Peterhouse, he worked as an events and entertainments officer.

After graduating, he took a job as a sales assistant at the record shop Our Price in Oxford.

1991

In late 1991, the EMI sales representative Keith Wozencroft visited Our Price and struck up conversation with Greenwood.

When Wozencroft mentioned that he was moving to a position as an A&R scout at the EMI subsidiary Parlophone, Greenwood gave him a copy of On a Friday's latest demo.

On a Friday signed a six-album recording contract with EMI and changed their name to Radiohead.

1997

In 1997, Greenwood participated in a marketing campaign for his alma mater, Cambridge University, posing for a photo with students from both state and private schools for a poster titled "Put Yourself in the Picture".

The poster was "designed to break down some of the stereotypes that deter able students from applying to Cambridge" and encourage more applicants from state schools.

2003

Greenwood contributed bass to two soundtracks by his brother, Jonny, Bodysong (2003) and Inherent Vice, and on the score for the 2008 film Woodpecker. He played bass on the albums Amir (2018) and Sahar (2022) by the Belgian-Egyptian singer Tamino, the album World's Strongest Man (2018) by Gaz Coombes, and on "Brasil" from Earth (2020), the debut solo album by his Radiohead bandmate Ed O'Brien.

He contributed beat programming to Yorke's song "Hearing Damage" from the soundtrack to The Twilight Saga: New Moon, and on "Guess Again!"

2008

In 2008, Mojo wrote that Greenwood and Selway were "surely the most inventive rhythm section working close to the rock mainstream".

2011

By 2011, Radiohead had sold more than 30 million albums worldwide.

2019

Greenwood was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Radiohead in 2019.

Greenwood has contributed to solo projects by the other members of Radiohead, and has collaborated with musicians including Tamino, Gaz Coombes, Nick Cave and Warren Ellis.

Colin Greenwood is the older brother of the Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood.

Their father served in the British Army as a bomb disposal expert.

The Greenwood family has historical ties to the British Communist Party and the socialist Fabian Society.

Greenwood lived in Germany as a child and became fluent in German.

He credited his older sister, Susan, with introducing him and Jonny to "miserable" bands such as the Fall, Magazine and Joy Division.

He said: "We were ostracised at school because everyone else was into Iron Maiden."

The Greenwood brothers attended Abingdon School, a private school for boys in Oxfordshire.

When he was 12, Colin met the future Radiohead singer Thom Yorke.

Their future bandmates Ed O'Brien, whom Greenwood met during a school production of the opera Trial by Jury, and Philip Selway also attended the school.

Greenwood bought his first guitar when he was 15.

He studied classical guitar under the Abingdon music teacher Terence Gilmore-James, who introduced him and his bandmates to jazz, film scores, postwar avant-garde music, and 20th-century classical music.

Greenwood said: "When we started, it was very important that we got support from him, because we weren't getting any from the headmaster. You know, the man once sent us a bill, charging us for the use of school property, because we practiced in one of the music rooms on a Sunday."

Greenwood said he began playing bass out of necessity, teaching himself by playing along to New Order, Joy Division and Otis Redding.

He said the band members picked their instruments "because we wanted to play music together, rather than just because we wanted to play that particular instrument. So it was more of a collective angle, and if you could contribute by having someone else play your instrument, then that was really cool."

They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in March 2019.

On being in a band with his brother, Jonny, Colin said: "Beyond the normal brotherly thing, I respect him as a person and a musician."

Greenwood mostly plays fingerstyle, and said he was unskilled with plectrums.

He mainly uses Fender basses and Ampeg and Ashdown amplifiers.

He also plays double bass on tracks such as "Pyramid Song" and "You and Whose Army".

He said: "My involvement is to play bass guitar, but our ideas and suggestions in certain areas, as to where the music should go or develop, are listened to. We are very much a band."

He said he did not think of himself as a bass player and was "just in a band with other people".

Among his influences are Booker T and the MGs, Bill Withers, Curtis Mayfield and J Dilla.