Thom Yorke has released a song celebrating the election of Barack Obama as the next US president.

The Radiohead frontman has remixed his solo track Harrowdown Hill, which originally appeared on his 2006 album The Eraser, to mark the occasion.

Writing on radiohead.com, where the song is available as a free download, Mr Yorke said: "In celebration of November 5, Jonny’s [Greenwood, guitarist] birthday, amid bonfire and fireworks in the UK and the dawn of a new era in politics in the USA, I humbly donate a remix of Harrowdown Hill that was finished ages ago during the band webcasts, a small reminder of the dark days of Bush's..."