The version available on the Paranoid Android CD1 and the US Airbag EP is considered the original, and the remix is available on the No Surprises/Running From Demons EP. The latter has clearer production values and a slightly louder guitar at the beginning; Jonny plays a different ending on the guitar. Both versions open with both Phil and Ed on drums.
'Pearly*' made it onto the band's live set on the latter half of the OK Computer tour:
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1997 OK Computer tour (2nd half) | september 1997 | october 1997 | november/december 1997 |
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Paranoid Android [35] | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 02 | 03 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 19 | 20 | 19 | ||
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Polyethylene [3] | 02 | 05 | 07 | 16 | 25 | 26 | 07 | 15 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Pearly* [1] | 16 | 25 | 26 | 07 | 09 | 15 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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A Reminder [2] | 02 | 03 | 16 | 25 | 26 | 07 | 15 |
Part of the performance of 'Pearly*' from january 18th 1998 in Tokyo can be seen in Meeting People Is Easy:



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1998 OK Computer tour | january 1998 | february 1998 | 03/98 | april 1998 | 06+12/98 |
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Paranoid Android [35] | 13 | 14 | 15 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 28 | 29 | 01 | 02 | 04 | 06 | 08 | 10 | 28 | 29 | 01 | 02 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 08 | 10 | 12 | 13 | 15 | 17 | 18 | 13 | 14 | 10 | |
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Polyethylene [5] | 24 | 10 | 08 | 15 | 18 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Pearly* [22] | 14 | 15 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 28 | 01 | 02 | 08 | 28 | 01 | 04 | 05 | 10 | 12 | 13 | 15 | 17 | ||||||||||||||
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A Reminder [2] | 13 | 14 |