Timothy James Rice-Oxley Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Timothy James "Tim" Rice-Oxley (born June 2, 1976), is a musician, producer, singer and multi-instrumentalist best known for being keyboardist, singer and songwriter in the British band Keane. In 2010 he formed a side-project, Mt. Desolation, with his Keane bandmate Jesse Quin.
When I first got into music I was really into the Pet Shop Boys for some reason, and so I got interested in the Fairlight, and the DX7, and the whole late eighties thing. I really got into MIDI. I always had half an eye on digital things. But I was living at home and I got a QY10 when they first came out. I thought that was one of the most amazing things I'd ever heard. I programmed a whole bunch of bass lines and backing tracks for some sort imaginary concert I was going to play - even though I wasn't even in a band. In fact I was about 12. Although I've always been into that side of it I'm certainly not an expert. The same applies to analog stuff. If you put me in front of a big modular synth I wouldn't know where to start. But I do like a good simple old synth where you can change the sound with a few knobs and where you can hear the sound reacting to what you're doing. I'm just a songwriter; someone who likes making music rather than being a real tech head. So as long I can get what I want out of a synth, be it an old analog one or a modern digital one, then I'm happy, and I've just about got enough knowledge to do that.
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For me, the seminal '80s moment was hearing the Pet Shop Boys's "Always On My Mind". At that time, pop music was a wasteland - Kylie (Kylie Minogue) and Stock, Aitken and Waterman.
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We didn't take time to sit back and enjoy our success with Hopes and Fears; we lost sight of the need to keep working on our relationship. There was a lot of tension, confusion and just a frustration with ourselves, and instead of taking time off and coming back refreshed, we took all that pent-up, dark energy into the studio with us. The atmosphere was pretty heavy, we argued a lot about the music and, of course, the songs were so intense - all of which added to the vibe.
4
Critics talk an unbelievable amount of shit. But then so do bands.
5
I see it as my mission to make the piano as much of an icon as the guitar.
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I remember having piano lessons when I was very young, and I never practised. It was just boring, it was all classical music, and I didn't like it. I always had to do exams, you know these theory exams, where they make you sing, god it was so humiliating! Anyway, so eventually because I never practised, my parents made me give up and said they don't want to pay for the lessons anymore but of course, being a typical kind of difficult teenager as soon as I stopped having lessons I had actually wanted to play the piano. So I started teaching myself.
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Fact
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His trademark piano sound is created on a Yamaha CP70 electric grand piano.
2
The first album he bought was "Live Baby Live" by INXS.
3
His great-great grandfather, great-grandfather, grandfather, father, mother and brother are all medical doctors.
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Educated at Tonbridge School, Kent.
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Took part in the Band Aid 20 re-recording of "Do They Know It's Christmas?". [November 2004]
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
A Monster Calls
2016
writer: "Tear Up This Town", "Tear Up This Town" film version by nm2069539
Britain's Got Talent
2016
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Hola y adiós
2016
TV Series documentary writer - 4 episodes
Pan
2015
producer: "Little Soldier" / writer: "Something's Not Right", "Little Soldier"
EastEnders: Back to Ours
2015
TV Series writer - 1 episode
It Takes a Choir
2014
TV Series documentary writer - 1 episode
Strictly Come Dancing
2014
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Dancing with the Stars
2014
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Dancing on Ice
2014
TV Series writer - 2 episodes
Frauenherzen
2014
TV Movie writer: "Somewhere Only We Know" - uncredited
Loose Women
TV Series performer - 1 episode, 2013 writer - 1 episode, 2013
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
2012
TV Series writer - 1 episode
LOL
2012
writer: "Somewhere Only We Know" - as Timothy James Rice-Oxley
Glee
2011
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Grey's Anatomy
2005-2011
TV Series writer - 3 episodes
Alpha and Omega
2010
writer: "Everybody's Changing"
He's Just Not That Into You
2009
writer: "Somewhere Only We Know" - as Timothy Rice-Oxley
Idols!
2008
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Australian Idol
2004-2007
TV Series writer - 2 episodes
Idool 2007
2007
TV Series writer - 1 episode
CSI: NY
2006
TV Series writer - 1 episode
SingStar Rocks!
2006
Video Game writer: "Everybody's Changing"
Scrubs
2006
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Strangers
2005
Video lyrics: "Sunshine", "Something In Me Was Dying", "Call Me What You Like", "Melodrama", "Gingerbread", "Somewhere Only We Know", "She Has No Time", "This Is the Last Time", "Can't Stop Now", "Your Eyes Open", "Bedshaped", "Allemande", "Everybody's Changing", "Walnut Tree", "She Opens Her Eyes", "Snowed Under", "We Might as Well Be Strangers", "Bend and Break", "Untitled 1", "Try Again", "Fly to Me", "With Or Without You", "Hamburg Song"
Idol - Jakten på en superstjerne
2005
TV Series writer - 2 episodes
Brit Awards 2005
2005
TV Special writer: "Everybody's Changing"
Call Register
2004
Short writer: "Snowed Under"
Smallville
2004
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Idool 2004
2004
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Raise Your Voice
2004
writer: "We Might as Well Be Strangers"
Music Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
Trespass Against Us
2016/I
musician: harmonium and piano
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
A Monster Calls
2016
thanks
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Loose Women
2013
TV Series
Performer
Queens of British Pop
2009
TV Series
Himself
Keane Live
2007
Video
Himself
Later... With Jools Holland
2006
TV Series
Himself - Interview
Pet Shop Boys: A Life in Pop
2006
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Strangers
2005
Video
Himself
Brit Awards 2005
2005
TV Special
Winner 'Best British Album' / Nominee 'Best British Group' / Performer 'Everybody's Changing' (as Keane)
$20 Million
