"Blurred" is a single released by
dance music
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artist
Pianoman
Pianoman is the alias of dance music producer James Sammon from Bradford, West Yorkshire who got to number 6 in the UK Singles Chart with the hit single " Blurred" in June 1996. His follow-up to "Blurred" released on 3 Beat Records was from a Bel ...
on 3 June 1996.
The song is a mix of mid-'90s dance production (such as a prominent synthesizer riff running throughout the song), a sample of the chorus from the
Blur song "
Girls & Boys", and a piano melody from Jimi Polo's "Better Days", that comes in whenever the Blur sample does. It was a big hit in
Ibiza
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in 1995 before being officially released the next year.
The song reached number 6 on the
UK Singles Chart
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,
after Blur approved the sample (Blur initially disliked the use of the sample, until they saw the success the track had attained in clubs across Europe). It remains Pianoman's only
hit single
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.
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
References
1996 singles
1995 songs
Songs written by Damon Albarn
Songs written by Graham Coxon
Songs written by Alex James (musician)
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