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Single by Keane | ||||||||||||||||
from the album Hopes and Fears | ||||||||||||||||
Released | 16 August 2004 | |||||||||||||||
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Recorded | 2003Rye, East Sussex, England) | at (Heliocentric Studios,|||||||||||||||
Genre | Alternative rock | |||||||||||||||
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Label | Island | |||||||||||||||
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Producer(s) | Andy Green | |||||||||||||||
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"Bedshaped" is a song by English rock band Keane, released as the third single from Hopes and Fears. This is the first single released after the album, and it sold about 22,000 copies in its first week of release; it became their third consecutive top ten hit on the British charts, after the release of "Somewhere Only We Know" and "Everybody's Changing (2004 version)", Bedshaped charted at number 10 in the UK; meanwhile, it also became a commercial success in Belgium, Denmark and the Netherlands.
CD CID870
UK, 7" vinyl IS849
All live tracks recorded at BNN
CD1
Released 15 October 2004
CD2
Released 19 October 2004
CD3
Released 12 November 2004
Released 18 April 2005
CD1
CD2
DVD
Released 18 April 2005
Released 18 April 2005 CD1
CD2
"Bedshaped" was composed sometime in 2001 by Tim Rice-Oxley. It was originally recorded at Les Essarts, France, and first released as a B-side on the Fierce Panda release of "Everybody's Changing" in May 2003. James Sanger is credited on this song as the fourth composer.
After the mysterious string-based intro, a honky tonk-reminiscent piano completes the main riff, with an E maj chord. Tom Chaplin vocals are introduced with the song clocking 59 seconds. After the second chorus, a small piano-riff gives place to the song's instrumental bridge which featured gothic voices, ending with an instrumental chorus with guitar alike sounds, produced by Rice-Oxley's Yamaha CX7 (these are sung by Chaplin during some live performances) to fade with Chaplin singing "But what do I know?, what do I know? I know". The instrumentation used on the song includes all instruments used through all the Hopes and Fears era (excepting the acoustic guitar and effects used on "The Happy Soldier").