2006年6月People《人物》杂志:The Police以来最热的英国三人组：Keane

People Magazine
June 02, 2006

BRITAIN’S HOTTEST TRIO SINCE THE POLICE
KEANE
Why you’re humming them now: The English band’s “Somewhere Only We Know” is featured in the TV ads for the Sandra Bullock-Keanu Reeves drama The Lake House.
What’s Up Next: Under the Iron Sea, the follow up to their multiplatinum debut, Hopes and Fears, is out June 20.
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The Down Side of Success: Though pals since growing up in Kent, England, drummer Richard Hughes, 30, lead singer, Tom Chaplin, 27, and songwriter-keyboard player Tim Rice-Oxley , 30, almost split after nearly two years of grueling touring. “We were getting sick of each other,” says Hughes. Adds Rice-Oxley: “I’d be in one bar, Tom would go off to bed, and Richard would watch a film. We weren’t communicating at all- a typical male thing.” They got past their “idiotic stubbornness” he says, making Under the Iron Sea- a “dark” expression of their personal “struggle”.

Speaking of Dark: A few years ago, Chaplin wrote a second rock star obituary for himself (he was about 8 when he penned his first), which read, “He died sad and lonely without a friend in the world.” Rice-Oxley once made fast money by testing drug for schizophrenia. “My mum said, ‘You’ll become a freak,’ he says. “But so far I’m just about okay.”

Bonding with Bono: While opening for U2 in NYC last year says Hughes, “we asked Bono, ‘Got any advice for making another record?” He emphasized the importance of [creating] atmosphere in the way you order things.

Tour Tips: To keep healthy on the road, they whip up smoothies. “We carry our blender equipment case so it doesn’t get broken,” says Hughes. And Rice-Oxley doesn’t often take wife Jayne along, so they can preserve “our sense of being a gang, the three of us against the world.”

It’s good to be (a rock) King: “I’m on the waiting list for Aston Martin,” says Hughes. “I’ve always loved them.” Or is it? says Rice-Oxley: “I’m slightly embarrassed by the idea of making money.”