Coldplay occurs as post-Britpop/alternative rock band from London, United Kingdom well known for their rock melodies and self-examining lyrics.

A band consists of: Chris Martin: lead vocals, piano/keyboard, guitar Jon Buckland: guitar, harmonica, backing vocals Guy Berryman: bass guitar, synthesizer, harmonica, backing vocals Will Champion: drums/percussion, piano, backing vocals.

Coldplay's early poop was remindful of creative person like Radiohead, Oasis, Jeff Buckley, and Travis. More influences include U2, R.E.M, Pink Floyd, a-ha, John Lennon, The Smiths, Grandaddy, Sparklehorse, The Stone Roses, Tom Waits, The Flaming Lips, Neil Young, Echo and the Bunnymen and, more recently, Johnny Cash and Kraftwerk. Prior to his demise, Cash was actually scheduled to record the track written per band.

Despite Coldplay's surge around popularity, a band has remained super hard of how else their music is utilized in the media. A b& allows their music to exist as utilized inside film, television, and promotional spots like a movie trailer to Peter Pan. Still, Coldplay has been adamantly against their apply inside actual product endorsement. A band turned down multi-million dollar contracts from either Gatorade, Diet Coke, and The Gap, who wanted to apply a songs "Yellow", "Trouble", and "Don't Panic" respectively. Based on data from Martin, "We wouldn't be able to live with ourselves if we sold the songs' meanings like that."

Since a release of A Rush Of Blood To The Head, Coldplay has also been actively supporting various mixer & political is the causal agent of. It use at times been advocates for Oxfam's Make Trade Fair campaign and Amnesty International. A class action has too performed at various charity projects like Band Aid 20, Live 8, and a Teenage Cancer Trust. [http://www.indielondon.co.uk/music/mu_coldplay_TCT03_rev.html] Martin was outspoken against Iraq war in 2003, and endorsed Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry in 2004. Bassist Guy Berryman says, "You can make people aware of issues. It isn't very much effort for us at all, but if it can help people, then we want to do it".[http://www.amnestyusa.org/musicforhumanrights/artists/artist_coldplay.html]

History
Origin and early years (September 1996–October 1999)
; he quickly learned the drums, despite with there is no former own experience thereupon instrument. At a period, a band performed under a title Starfish. In time, it took the title Coldplay from either a reciprocal friend, Tim, world health organization got his have band. Based on data from Martin, "He (Tim) decided he didn't like the name anymore because it was too depressing."

Inside 1998, Coldplay was performing small club gigs for local Camden promoters. Wanting extra originative freedom, Martin recruited fellow student & childhood friend Phil Harvey to work when band manager. Harvey helped the band raise money required to record a demonstration. Harvey managed a b& higher until and including a release of their debut album Parachutes. He was late replaced by Our contries depending manager Dave Holmes world health organization continues to handle a band to this day. In May 18 1998 the band released Five hundred copies of the EP Safety. Virtually all of the discs were given to record corporations & friends; single L copies remained purchasable to the public. Around December, Coldplay was signed by indie label Fierce Panda, after founder Simon Williams experienced attended a band's gig that evening. A effect was a trine track EP Brothers And Sisters which was quickly recorded over quatern years inside February 1999. A disc was freed around April, only 2,500 copies were pressed around the super limited release. Buzz was slowly growing through a UK, helped by regular airplay from either BBC Radio 1 DJ Steve Lamacq.

When completing their final examinations, Coldplay was signed to Parlophone for a 5-album contract around Spring 1999. When making their 1st appearance at Glastonbury, the band went into studio to record the third EP titled The Blue Room. A disc was freed around October, & 5,000 copies were manufactured available to the public. A recording sessions for The Blue Room were turbulent. Champiin walked out for the week, inducing Martin (the self-proclaimed non-drinker & non-smoker) to last on the ingesting binge. Finally, a b& worked out their differences and located a recently placed of system to keep the class action intact. 1st, the b& declared an completely-for-1 approach; Coldplay was the democracy, & success were to exist as shared equally, ingesting a home from either elastic rather U2 and R.E.M. 2nd, a band would fire anyone world health organization utilized cocaine. Inside late years, Martin joked all about a band's do-cut image by saying "This (playing music) is better than doing coke off a hooker's back! Which we don't do!"[http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/reviews/story/0,11712,937490,00.html]

Parachutes (November 1999–September 2001)
Within November 1999, Coldplay focused their efforts in their debut album. A band spent a Just released Month by completing album tracks "Yellow" & "Everything's Not Lost". It likewise played on the NME Carling Premier Tour, which showcased up-&-gumptious acts. When releasing trinity EPs forgoing the hit song, Coldplay scored their number one Top 40 only, "Shiver". Discharged within March 2000, a lone positioned at the mild #35 & earned the band their 1st airplay in MTV.

and placed a band publicly consciousness.

Coldplay freed their number 1 good-length album, Chute, around July 2000, which debuted at #1 on the UK Albums Chart. Along by having critical plaudit, Chute was for instance criticised for bearing the hard resemblance to the music of Radiohead in their The Bends–OK Computer era. "Yellow" and "Trouble" earned regular airplay on radio on both sides of the Atlantic. Parlophone originally predicted sales of 40,000 units of Chute; by Christmas, 1.6 million copies got been sold in the United Kingdom alone. Chute was nominative for the Mercury Music Prize in September 2000.

With encountered profits inside Europe, the band placed their sights in North America. Chute was discharged inside November 2000. the band start a United states of america club tour around early 2001 coupled with appearances in Saturday Night Live, ''Late Night with Conan O'Brien, and The Late Show with David Letterman. Chute was the mild profits, & was qualified by having Gold status in the United States. A album was too critically easily-received, earning Best Alternative Music Album honours at the 2002 Grammy Awards.

A Rush Of Blood To The Head (October 2001–Mid-2004)
Coldplay returned to the studios around October 2001 to begin work in their 2nd album. a sessions were occasionally hard, & there were many rumor even that a band was on the verge of a break-higher or that the album would become their final release.With much anticipation, Coldplay freed their second-year album, The Rush Of Blood To The Head around August 2002.

the album was usually considered to become a additional sophisticated effort than Chute. E.g., a charged opening track "Politik" was written times fallowing a September 11 terrorist attacks. The Rush Of Blood To The Head became a right-seller & earned the band supplementary critical award. A album spawned numbers of popular singles, notably "In My Place", "The Scientist", & "Clocks". The Rush Of Blood To The Head'' was possibly virtually all evocative of classic era Echo and the Bunnymen. This is does'nt surprising, since Bunnymen singer Ian McCulloch was invited to recording sessions as an unofficial studio consultant. In a single occasion, Martin was actually wearing McCulloch's jacket after recording "In My Place". Chris Martin & Jin Buckland returned a favour by guesting on McCulloch's solo album Slideling. Coldplay has besides performed survive renditions of the Bunnymen hit "Lips Like Sugar" regularly.

Coldplay toured for across a year, from either June 2002 to September 2003, visiting 5 continents including co-headlining festival dates at Glastonbury Festival, V2003, and Rock Werchter. A tour showed a band's progression into the bona fide arena work. Several shows involved elaborate lighting & individualised screens evocative of the U2 Elevation Tour. Coldplay as well built the reputation of performing eclectic covers, including Aqua's "Barbie Girl", Rammstein's "Du Hast", and Nelly's "Hot in Herre", along with more heartfelt renditions of a-ha's "The Living Daylights" and Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World". When you took the extended tour, Coldplay too recorded a survive DVD & Video, Live 2003, at Sydney's Horden Pavilion. The fresh song, "Moses", can be detected on this compilation.

Inside December 2003, Coldplay covered The Pretenders hit "2000 Miles", which was made available for download in their official places. It was a top merchandising UK download that season, by owning payoff from either a sales were donated to Future Forests and Stop Handgun Violence campaigns. The Rush Of Blood To The Head won 2 trophies at a 2003 Grammy Awards. At a 2004 Grammy Awards, Coldplay earned Record of the Year honours for "Clocks".

X&Y (Mid-2004—)
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Coldplay's third album, X&Y was released on June 6, 2005 in the UK. A lead individual "Speed of Sound", made its radio & in the internet music store debut on April 18 and was released as a CD on May 23, 2005. A album debuted at #1 inside Twenty-eight countries worldwide & was a 2nd fastest merchandising album inside UK chart history (behind a 1997 Oasis album Be Here Now).

10&Y was originally set to be released in late 2004. In the midst of that month, Coldplay got penned terminated Xl fresh songs for their third album. Many one songs (like "Ladder To The Sun", "World Turned Upside Down", & "Pour Me") got been performed live the The Rush Of Blood To The Head Tour. All a same, it were scrapped & the b& regrouped to write and record fresh tracks. Ten&Y was recorded over 18 months in eight studios in New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, Liverpool, and London.

To promote the freshly release, Coldplay performed at a series of intimate secret gigs witharound Europe & around Northward Usa from either March to Will, 2005, which resulted inside sold-out shows in locations like San Francisco, Chicago, Toronto, Boston, and Up to date York City. Since June 2005, Coldplay has been on the Twisted Logic Tour, a spherical concert tour that has included festival dates prefer Coachella, Glastonbury, and a Fuji Rock festivals. Within July, a band appeared at Live 8 in Hyde Park, London. Around September, Coldplay recorded the newly version of "How You See The World" to War Child's Help: a Day in the Life charity album.

Coldplay has planned ii other legs of the Twisted Logic Tour for 2006, with tentative Northerly Our contries date back February to April. A band has as well confirmed Australian concerts inside June/July within Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. Adelaide and Perth were also added fallowing successful low & offline petitions from either a various cities. Their Australian trend lines class action is approaching Aussie band, "Youth Group".

Next studio album
Within an locate using a Chicago Sun-Times, Chris Martin hinted that Coldplay's next album may be the "fast, dark and heavy" affair "with no pianos." [http://www.suntimes.com/output/derogatis/cst-ftr-coldplay10.html] Band manager David Holmes [http://www.billboard.com/bb/daily/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001022606 suggested] that a band could record a newly album between their tour schedule above the fresh season: "They're definitely hungry to get back in the studio to make another record; they've got a lot of material. So for next year we're looking at building a tour around their recording schedule. Ultimately it could potentially mean we end up releasing another record [next year] and continuing to tour well into '07."

Discography
Note: Unless otherwise stated, a lot releases come on the Parlophone label in the UK and Capitol in the US.

Studio albums
I. Parachutes (July 10, 2000); #1 UK; #51 US

Deuce. A Rush of Blood to the Head (August 26, 2002); #1 UK; #5 US

Trio. X&Y (June 6, 2005); #1 UK; #1 US

Live albums
Live 2003 (November 4, 2003); #13 US

DVD
Live 2003 (Official concert and docudrama release) Maximal Coldplay (Unofficial documentary film) Coldplay - Back to the Run (Unofficial docudrama)

EPs
Safety EP (1998, released independently, UK lone, limited to Five hundred copies) Brothers & Sisters EP (1999, released on Fierce Panda in the UK, also limited to 500 copies) The Blue Room EP ''(1999, released in EMI Int'fifty in the United states & Parlophone in the UK) Condition (2000 - a survive EP, recorded around Norway, different from either the lone of the equivalent title, Norway only, freed on the EMI label) Sparks (2000, never commercially freed however promotional copies come widely available, contains A survive version of Yellowness & the B-side from either The Blue Room EP) Clocks (2003, the survive EP, recorded around Rotterdam, Netherlands, comprising three separately-sold singles that last together around the big foldout instance, freed in EMI international, limited production) Fix We (2005, discharged as a digital EP in the U.S.; available excusively in iTunes; includes the album & survive versions of "Fix You" + 2 antecedently unreleased songs in the U.S. 100% of return might attend people affected by Hurricane Katrina.)

Singles

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Other
"Ode To Deodorant" (1998, demo tape) "Mince Spies" (2001, freed merely to the pre-Parachutes Coldplay fan club, consists of the handle of "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" and a remix of "Yellow", limited to Yard copies worldwide) "Remixes" (2003, UK simply, limited to Thousand copies)