THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.

383-Keane-Bedshaped.

2004-Number 10 single.

Best Bit-At 3.35. The band are named after a family friend of Tom Chaplin’s family called Cherry Keane who looked after Rice-Oxley and Chaplin when they were children, she would tell them to ‘Go after their dreams’. At her death from cancer she left money to the Chaplin family, of which some was used by Tom, ‘To see me through the harder times with the music.’

Keane were formed in Battle, East Sussex, England, in 1995 by Tim Rice-Oxley, Richard Hughes, and Dominic Scott, originally calling themselves ‘Lotus Eaters,’ (not to be confused with the 1980’s Liverpool band of the same name) they performed as a covers band playing songs by their favourite bands including U2, and the Beatles. Tom Chaplin joined the group in 1997, and Scott left in 2001, and in 2011, after being a touring musician with the group since 2007, Jesse Quin became an official member. To date Keane have released five studio Albums between 2004-2019, they have also released two live Albums, 10 extended plays, and 28 singles, 10 of which have reached the UK top 40.

‘Bedshaped’ was initially composed in 2001 by Tim Rice-Oxley, but it is also credited to fellow band members Richard Hughes and Thomas Chaplin, also credited is James Sanger. ‘Bedshaped’ was the third single released from Keane’s debut studio Album ‘Hopes and Fears’ from 2004, Rice-Oxley has explained the songs meaning,’It’s about feeling that you’ve been left behind by an old friend or lover, and about hoping that you’ll be reunited one day so that you can live out the end of your lives together, the way you started them. It’s a sad, and angry song, but also full of hope. I think I am right in saying that in hospital when someone is ill and has to spend a lot of time in bed they can become ‘bedshaped.”

‘Many’s the time I ran with you down the rainy roads of our old town. Many the lives we lived in each day, and buried altogether. Don’t laugh at me, don’t look away.’