The band's first-ever single was 'Call Me What You Like', released in 1999 on the band's own label, Zoomorphic. What was Keane's first single? What was their first album? Having originally been called The Lotus Eaters, Tom Chaplin's addition to the group caused them to rethink the name, and instead named themselves after a friend of Tom's mum, Cherry Keane, who passed away and left money for the musician's family, and Tom later said: "I used some of the money to see me through the harder times with the music." They shortened the name to Keane not long after. The change in line-up also meant a name change for the band. This sparked Tim to recruit another old school friend into the band - Tom Chaplin, although Dominic and Richard didn't love the idea to begin with. After hearing Tim's piano skills in 1997, he was keen (sorry) to snap him up for his own band, but Tim refused as he had his heart set on his own group, later stating that he was "seriously interested" in the offer. They were called 'The Lotus Eaters' at the time.Īlso studying at UCL around the same time was none other than Chris Martin of Coldplay fame. Tim Rice-Oxley was studying classics at University College London, and decided to form a band with his old school friends - the original line-up of which included founder and guitarist Dominic Scott and Richard Hughes on drums, and they mainly focused on covers of U2, Oasis and The Beatles.
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