Richard Hughes
British musician · United Kingdom · Musicians · Born 1975 · age 51
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Something wrong?The drummer who anchored one of the few rock bands to lead with piano instead of guitar. Keane's rhythm section quietly held down a sound that sold 13 million records and made keyboards feel like the main event.
About this person
Richard Hughes formed Keane in 1995 in Battle, East Sussex, alongside Tom Chaplin, Tim Rice-Oxley, and original guitarist Dominic Scott, who left in 2001. Jesse Quin joined later on bass. The band broke through in 2004 with Hopes and Fears, which topped the UK chart, won the 2005 Brit Award for Best British Album, and became the second-best-selling album in Britain that year. Under the Iron Sea followed in 2006, hitting number one at home and number four in the US, then Perfect Symmetry in 2008 and Strangeland in 2012, another UK chart-topper. After a hiatus from 2013, they returned in 2019 with Cause and Effect and toured Europe and Latin America before the pandemic paused the road. Hughes's drums and percussion gave backbone to a band built on distorted piano and synthesisers, a setup that Q readers in 2008 ranked among the best British albums ever made.
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