Coldplay

Coldplay - modern britpop group from the south-eastern England. It consists of vocalist and pianist Chris Martin, guitarist Jonny Baklenda, bassist Guy Berrimena and drummer Will Champion. All were in the mid-90's have gathered in London to listen to lectures at University College, which quickly became friends. Bridge their love of music. Chris started writing lyrics, but Will has agreed to postpone the guitar and get into the hands of drum sticks. At the very beginning, Johnny and Chris have played his music on the streets, often to earn, but also bear the idea of his music in «clean» head also took place to be. Next Party is gaining momentum and produces one after another mini-discs, which gives their friends and acquaintances. The fascination reviews close inspire young musicians and May 98 th newborn group writes a mini-disc «Safety», which included four songs. Having made 500 copies of this EP, they have desired: in September Coldplay spoke at the festival In The City in Manchester, and in December - at the Camden Falcon in London.

Coldplay released three successful albums (all of which ranked first in the UK charts), their singles ( «Yellow», «Speed of Sound») also enjoyed success, but for single «Clocks» Coldplay have received the prize «Grammy». What's strange singles Coldplay has never been high on the British charts.

Formation of the group and the first years of its existence (1996-1999 biennium.)

Participants Coldplay met in a hostel in London College (University College London), where they studied. Future Group vocalist Chris Martin was going to become a historian, guitarist Jonny keen Baklend astronomy and mathematics, bassist Guy Berrimen saw an engineer and drummer Will Champion planned to devote himself anthropology.

Chris Martin and Johnny Baklend learned during the first weeks of training in college, in autumn 1996. The idea of creating its music group are not left two friends. They then met with Ai Berrimenom, who even had no idea about what musical direction will adhere group. Throughout the 1997 team gave few concerts in small clubs in London. Manager group became a school friend Chris - Phil Harvey (Phil Harvey), who studied at the time in Oxford. Subsequently, Harvey worked with the group to record their second studio album.

In early 1998, when the group joined Will Champion, she finally emerged. Will Champion invited to take place in the group drummer. But, as a musical prodigy, and umeya play keyboards, bass and acoustic guitar, Champion has never sat in shock installation. But this was not a problem for Will: skilled drummer, he mastered quickly enough. Another group member can become Tim Rice-Oxley (Tim Rice-Oxley), with whom Chris Martin met in college and invited to the group as a keyboardist, but Rice-Oxley declined to participate because he already has a group of Keane, where he is playing to this day.

At first, Martin, Baklend, Champion and Berrimen were called «Starfish». Later team changed it to «Coldplay», it borrowed the name from another group from the same college, where musicians felt it was too «depressive». The name also comes from a compilation of poems by Philip Horki (Philip Horky).

18 May 1998, Group issued 500 copies of the mini-album Safety EP. Most of the discs were sent to various labels and distributed to friends group, and only 50 copies were for sale. In December 1998, the group was invited to enroll at the record label Fierce Panda, which in four days was recorded following the mini-album, called Brothers and Sisters. The release of the album which has a print run of 2,500 copies, was held in April 1999. Songs from this CD immediately became popular on British radio station Radio 1.

After graduation exams in college, the group entered into a contract with the label Parlophone. And after the kind of success at the Glastonbury music festival (Glastonbury), Coldplay have gone to work on a new album. And soon, a print run of 5,000 copies, went out of their next mini-album The Blue Room EP. His record was very hard. Thus, Martin severely scold with Willi, who decided to leave the group. But soon Will has profound apology from Chris that he received «very stupid», being very drunk.

Parachutes (1999-2001)

In November 1999 Coldplay have begun recording debut studio album. The first single released «Shiver» won 35 seats in the British singles chart «Top 40», in addition, the song became a debut Coldplay on MTV. June 2000 was a turning date in the history of the group. The group solemnly returned to the Glastonbury Festival (Glastonbury), and later with a stunning success out single «Yellow», takes the 4 th singles chart in the United Kingdom.

The release of the first studio album «Parachutes» took place in July 2000. Album escaped at the top albums chart the United Kingdom. But despite the universal love, the group has been partly zakritikovana for similarities with albums The Bends and OK Computer group Radiohead. But this did not prevent songs Yellow and Trouble for a long time to stay in the top row of the music charts on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. A record label Parlophone, initially racschityvavshy to issue a maximum 40 000 copies of this album, finally received a much larger profit from sales: by the end of the year was sold only in Great Britain 1.6 million copies.

With a resounding success in Europe, the group agreed to strengthen its position in America. In the U.S. release of the album Parachutes was held in November 2000. The group agreed to speak on a tour of American clubs, starting him in Vancouver in early 2001. Coldplay also made many television shows on channels in the USA. In the end, won album of «double-platinum» and won a Grammy Award in 2002 in the nomination «The best musical album in the genre of alternative rock».

A Rush of Blood to the Head (2001-2004)

Coldplay returned to the studio in October 2001 and began recording a second studio album. The release of the album took place in August 2002.

The first song from the album, Politik, was written by Chris after the attacks of 11 September in New York and Washington. In his own words, text and music came to him in the head dead of night. He woke up the middle of the night and tried to play and record a song, the record came out very quiet, as Martin tried not to wake neighbors. This happens song, which he later named Chris «very loud song Coldplay». With success came all the singles from that album - «God Put A Smile Upon Your Face», «The Scientist», «In My Place» and «Clocks».

During his tour A Rush Of Blood To The Head Tour, which lasted from June 2002 to September 2003, the group visited the concerts 5 continents, and became one of festivals hedlaynerov Glastonbury, V2003, and Rock Werchter. During a concert recorded Live 2003, which came with the DVD presentation groups live round in Australia, as well as the audio version of this speech in SD. The release includes «live» version of songs Moses, either before or after it is not published.

In December 2003, the magazine Rolling Stone Coldplay awarded the prize as the best team in 2003. The magazine put the A Rush Of Blood To The Head at the 473 position in the ranking of top 500 albums of all time. In the same year the gallery has received two awards Grammy, and in 2004 in the nomination «Record Year» prize won song «Clocks».

X & Y (2004-2006)

His third album group began recording in 2004. According to Ai, «in search of inspiration, we listened to a lot of albums of various artists from Bowie, Ino and Pink Floyd to Depeche Mode, Kate Bush and Kraftwerk». In May 2004 team were pleased with their fans a song «The Nappies», recorded in honor of the birth of a daughter of Chris Apple (Apple) and vylozhennoy on the official site of the group, along with the video. In the video recording also participated producer group Ken Nelson (Ken Nelson). According to him, that sound more like a mixture of repa and glem-rock. As joked Chris, to write the song it inspired creativity of Jay-Z.

In the process of writing team decided to change its standing producer Ken Nelson, inviting him Sappla Denton (Danton Supple). The third album came out 6 June 2005. Until the end of the year has sold 8.3 million copies, album became the most sold album label EMI in 2005. The album once headed the first places in the album charts in 28 countries around the world, and became the second fast-selling album in the history of the British charts.

The first single from the album «Speed Of Sound», first sounded on the radio on April 18, was released on CD on 23 May 2005. The second single «Fix You» was released in August, it was followed by «Talk» - in December 2005 and «The Hardest Part» - in March 2006.

In June 2005, Coldplay again went to the tour, which they called Twisted Logic. Starting in giving concerts in 2005, the group continued its tour of the United States, starting in January in Seattle and ended in April in Philadelphia. The third part of tour that began in summer 2006, the team visited Australia and East Asia. In the winter of 2006-2007 year, the team visited with concerts in South America.

Coldplay took part in music festivals such as Glastonbury, Austin City Limits, Coachella. The group was made at London's Hyde Park in Check the weather in the world Live 8. In February 2006, Coldplay have received 2 awards ceremony in the Brit Awards nominations in the «Best Album» and «The best single».

Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends (2006 -)

Producers fourth album, the group began Markus Dravs and the legendary Brian Ino. The first single from the album, appeared on the Internet, were «Violet Hill» and «Viva la Vida». Name the last (and the entire album) gave a still life of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. In June 2008, «Viva la Vida» became the first twenty years of rock single from England, conquered the first line of national hit parade USA.

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