Within three days of release, it went straight to 21 in the UK top 40, peaking at 7. Within hours of the advert being aired for the first time, the track reached to the top of the music recognition service Shazam's trending list. The advert features a penguin finding love and was released on the same day as the single. Odell's next song, a cover of The Beatles' "Real Love", is the audio track to the 2014 John Lewis Christmas advert and has gained him great publicity. His song "Heal" was also used in the movie If I Stay, the TV shows NCIS and The Vampire Diaries along with "Another Love". His song "Grow Old With Me" was featured in an episode of Reign. "Can't Pretend" and "Long Way Down" were also featured on The Blacklist and the award winning movie The Fault In Our Stars. Odell's song "Can't Pretend" was used in the TV series The 100. Odell was named 'songwriter of the year' at the 2014 Ivor Novello Awards ceremony. The show kicked off the last leg of his UK Long Way Down Tour. Odell performed his first new song since the release of Long Way Down, entitled "Alex", on 7 February 2014 at the Plymouth Pavilions. He was due to support The Rolling Stones at London's Hyde Park on 13 July 2013, but was unable to perform because of illness. Odell's debut album, Long Way Down, was released on 24 June 2013 and reached No. Odell was named the BRITs' Critics' Choice Award winner, previously won by artists such as Adele and Florence and the Machine and was the first male artist to win the award, and was interviewed alongside previous winner Emeli Sandé during the television ceremony in February 2013. Odell's music has been used in numerous Burberry fashion runway shows. Also that month, his single "Another Love" was used by the BBC to advertise their 2013 schedule. Odell was announced as one of fifteen nominees for the BBC Sound of 2013 poll in January 2013. with Jools Holland the show's producer Alison Howe later described it as "a classic Later debut". He made his television debut in November 2012 as a performer on Later. He released his debut extended play, Songs from Another Love, in October 2012. So if you see a racing-green classic Mini Cooper, it's mine". Then three weeks later I got back from a show in Scotland and the car was gone. He was given an album advance: "I went out and bought an old Mini Cooper for cash. He was discovered by the label head Lily Allen, who remarked that "his energy onstage reminded me of David Bowie". Odell is signed to In the Name Of, an imprint of Columbia Records. Career 2012–13: Career beginnings and Long Way Down However, he later decided to become a solo artist because he "didn't want to have to rely on people". Tom and The Tides recorded the song "Spider" for the Brighton Institute of Modern Music student album What's Inside Your Head Vol. He studied at the Brighton Institute of Modern Music playing as part of the band Tom and the Tides before moving to London in 2010. Using his grandmother's car, he travelled regularly to London to play shows and to put advertisements in music schools. I learnt to perform and learnt what songs work." A year later, he moved back to Chichester after being made redundant from his job as a barman. He appeared at open-mic events nightly: "It was full of humiliation: dragging a keyboard round, turning up to find out I’d been taken off the bill, gangs of lads grabbing the mic off me and laughing. Īt the age of eighteen, Odell abandoned plans to attend the University of York and attempted to gain a place at a music college in Liverpool. He began writing his own songs at the age of thirteen but told no one because he felt it was "uncool". He spent part of his childhood in New Zealand because of his father's job. Odell was born in Chichester, West Sussex, England, to an airline pilot father and a primary school teacher mother. Soon after, on 9 December 2016, Odell released his Christmas EP Spending All My Christmas with You. His second studio album, Wrong Crowd, was released on 10 June 2016. His debut studio album, Long Way Down, was issued on 24 June 2013. He released his debut extended play, Songs from Another Love, in 2012 and won the BRITs Critics' Choice Award in early 2013. Thomas Peter Odell (born 24 November 1990) is an English singer-songwriter.
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