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For other uses, see Keane (disambiguation).

Template:Infobox band Keane are an English alternative rock band from Battle, East Sussex.

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Members

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Present Line-up

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Former Line-up

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History

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The Beginnings

Everything started in March 8th 1979, when Mrs. Chaplin's son was born at the same time as Mrs. Rice-Oxley's second child. They both named their sons "Tom", but what is really important is that soon the big brother of Tom Rice-Oxley, Tim, met Tom and since that moment he was his best friend.

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Early years through 2004

All the members of Keane were at Tonbridge School in Kent. They started out in college in 1997 as a covers band, playing songs by U2, Oasis, and The Beatles but soon wanted to perform their own material, and released two short-run EPs. Simon Williams of Fierce Panda Records was asked by a mutual friend to attend a Keane gig at the Betsey Trotwood in London and was so impressed that he offered to issue the band's next single. Keane signed a development act with BMG Music Publishing. After another single on Fierce Panda, they signed to Island and released the single "Somewhere Only We Know", which reached number three in the U.K. in February 2004. Their album Hopes and Fears followed in May. It reached number one and was the second-biggest selling album of the year in the U.K., after the Scissor Sisters, losing the top spot on the final day of the year.

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Success

The band won two awards at the 2005 Brit Awards — Best British album for Hopes and Fears and the British breakthrough act award, as voted by listeners of BBC Radio 1. In May 2005, they received the Ivor Novello award as songwriters of the year. "Everybody's Changing" was nominated for the song of the year but the award was given to The Streets "Dry Your Eyes".

The band are currently the patrons of War Child. In September 2005 they contributed a cover of Elton John's "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" to Help: a Day in the Life — an album aiming to repeat the success of 1995's The Help Album by becoming the fastest online album ever produced. Keane also did a cover of the Walker Brothers' "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine (Anymore)" for the War Child website.

Keane gained some visibility in the United States in Fall 2005 by opening some shows for U2; onstage they claimed Achtung Baby as one of their biggest influences. A couple of new songs were played as well as their best-known material.

Their meloncholy song We Might As Well Be Strangers was prominently featured on a Smallville episode during the popular TV show's fourth season. The song played background to Clark Kent and Lana Lang as their now-broken relationship took another turn for the worst. Lead singer croons on the final chorus reprise: "It's easier to be apart/We might as well be strangers in another town/We might as well be living in another time/We might as well, we might as well, we might as well--be strangers."

According to the Keane fansite keane.at, they have finished their second album Under the Iron Sea, produced by Andy Green. Recording has been taking place in Rye, East Sussex (where Hopes and Fears was recorded) and, more recently, in New York City.

Keane was also nominated for a Grammy in the Best New Artist category along with Sugarland, John Legend, Ciara, and Fall Out Boy at the 48th Annual Grammy awards in Los Angeles. They lost the award to John Legend.[1]

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Discography

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Studio Albums

Hopes and Fears
<center>(May 10, 2004)
<center>Island
<center> #1 UK(8x Platinum), #45 US
Under the Iron Sea
<center>(June 12, 2006)
<center>Island
<center> #? UK, #? US
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Live Albums

Live recordings 2004
<center>(May 3, 2005)
<center>Island
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Singles

Non-album singles

  • "Call Me What You Like" (Zoomorphic) — released in February 2000
  • "Wolf at the Door" (Zoomorphic) — released in June 2001 and limited to 50 copies.

From Hopes and Fears

  • "Everybody's Changing" (Fierce Panda) — released May 12 2003 (#122 UK)
  • "This is the Last Time" (Fierce Panda) — released October 13 2003 (ineligible to chart due to web-link contained on CD, was at #58 in the midweeks, then the Official Charts Company withdrew the single at the end of the week)
  • "Somewhere Only We Know" (Island) — released February 16 2004 (#3 UK; #50 US)
  • "Everybody's Changing" (Island) — released May 3 2004 (#4 UK)
  • "Bedshaped" (Island) — released August 16 2004 (#10 UK)
  • "This is the Last Time" (Island) — released November 22 2004 (#18 UK)
  • "Bend And Break" (Island) — released on July 25 2005; only released in some countries

From Under The Iron Sea

  • "Atlantic" — to be released April 25 2006 (Only free video download)
  • "Is It Any Wonder?" — to be released May 29 2006 (#? UK)
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DVDs

  • "Keane: Strangers" (Island) — a two-disc DVD documentary/video anthology released on 14th November 2005 (UK) & 15th November 2005 (US) in both jewel and digipak versions.
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List of songs

  • 11th Hour Blues
  • A Bad Dream
  • A Heart To Hold You
  • All I Was
  • Allemande
  • Atlantic
  • Bedshaped
  • Bend And Break
  • Broken Toy
  • Call Me What You Like
  • Can’t Stop Now
  • Closer Now
  • Crystal Ball
  • Emily
  • Everybody’s Changing
  • Fly To Me
  • Gingerbread
  • Hamburg Song
  • If Not You
  • I’ll Live In Fear
  • Innes’ Song
  • In The Light
  • Is It Any Wonder?
  • Leaving So Soon?
  • Less In More
  • Maps
  • Melodrama
  • More Matey
  • Morsel
  • New One
  • Nothing In My Way
  • On A Day Like Today
  • Pot Of Gold
  • Put It Behind You
  • Rubbernecking
  • Russian Farmers’Song
  • She Has No Time
  • She Opens Her Eyes
  • Snowed Under
  • Something In Me Was Dying
  • Somewhere Only We Know
  • Sunshine
  • Start The Car
  • The Frog Prince
  • The Happy Soldier
  • The Iron Sea
  • The Night Sky
  • The Way You Want It
  • This Is The Last Time
  • To The End Of The Earth
  • Try Again
  • Untitled 1
  • Untitled 2
  • Walnut Tree
  • We Might As Well Be Strangers
  • Wolf At The Door
  • Wonderful River
  • Your Eyes Open
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Trivia

  • The band take their name from a woman called Cherry Keane that looked after Tom when he was young.
  • The band was called "The Lotus Eaters" from 1995 to 1997
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Quotes

  • "Food, this is our equivalent of drugs".
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External links

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Official sites

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Fansites

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Other

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