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Radiohead guitarist recalls evening he spent with Kanye in Rio

Radiohead guitarist Ed O'Brien says he 'blew Kanye West's mind' by speaking to him about religion.

The musician told the Ninja Tune podcast that he fell in with the rapper in the early 2010s while in Rio.

He started speaking about the number of religious people in the UK - something which flummoxed the US star.

O'Brien said: "Okay, I'm going to namedrop here. I had an evening with Kanye West about four years ago in Rio [de Janeiro] during [the annual] carnival.

"He wasn't really interested in me at all. Not at all... His wife was even less interested in me, it's just that a mutual friend put us together for the evening.

"But I did say to him, 'If you asked pretty much any British musician whether they believed in God, I’d tell you that 99% of them would say, 'Don’t be stupid, of course not''. It blew his mind. He was like, ‘You cannot be serious'. He was John McEnroe for a moment."

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