"Thinking of Me" is a song by British singer

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, taken from his debut studio album, ''

''. It is written by Murs,

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and

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, and was released as Murs's second single on 19 November 2010. Murs performed it live on ''

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'' on 21 November 2010. It became his second UK top 5 hit after the chart topping success of his debut, "

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Background

In 2009 Murs was runner-up in the sixth series of singing competition ''

'', following which he was offered a joint record deal with

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and

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in February 2010. Work then began on his debut album and "Thinking of Me" was written by Murs,

and

. The single's B-Side, "Sophie", is a track written about one of Murs' ex-girlfriends, with whom he had a messy break-up. The song received its first airplay on

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on 11 October 2010, following an interview with Murs on ''

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'' live from Darlington Civic Theatre.

Music video

The video for the song premiered on 21 October 2010, following a snippet of the song being made available on Murs's

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account. The video features Murs sitting in an ice cream van, and begins to daydream where he gets out of the ice cream van and starts walking across bollards and tightrope walking along and walking down a bridge whilst imagining every woman who walks by him as an old girlfriend including the traffic warden who wakes him up asking him to move the van and the video ends with Murs driving away.

Live performances

Murs' first ever live performance of the song on TV was on the day of the single's release, 21 November 2010, where he made his homecoming appearance on the results show of ''

''. Accompanied by a troupe of dancers and a backdrop of street lamps and red phone boxes, the song's lyrics in the middle 8 were ad-libbed by Murs to reference

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, who was still a judge on the show at the time. Murs revealed in his 2012 autobiography ''Happy Days'' that the plan had initially been to make the performance "more Christmas-y" with it being so close to that time of year. Murs also performed the song on numerous other TV shows, including ''

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'',

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's ''The 5.19 Show'', ''

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'', '' KOKO Pop'', ''Jason Manford's Comedy Rocks'' and ''

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''. In 2011, the song was also performed at

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on 15 May (with Murs being accompanied on stage by

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and

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from the breakfast show),

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on 10 July, '' The Hollyoaks Music Show'' on 22 August and Murs' special for ''The Album Chart Show'' on 4 December.

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