Biography
The British Music Group "Coldplay" became famous all over the world in 2000 due to their second Single "Yellow". They broke into the tops of all the charts of Great Britain and the United States. Then the album "Parachutes" has developed a huge circulation - more than 80 million copies.History and composition
Future participants in the group met in the dormitory of London College at the University, where he originates the biography of the group. Chris Martin and Johnny Blakend began to communicate in the first weeks of study, in the fall of 1996. The idea of creating your own musical team did not leave friends. Later it became acquaintance with Ham Berrimer. In 1997, the Group sometimes performed in London clubs. The manager was the school friend of Solist Phil Harvey, who studied at that time in Oxford. He worked with a team to recording 2 studio album.
Chris Martin, who in the future will become a vocalist of the group, grew up in a Christian family, sang in church choir and wanted to become a historian. Guitarist Johnny Blakend attracted astronomy and mathematics, and Basist Guy Berrimer planned to become an engineer.
In the first half of 1998, the Group fully formed: Will Champion, who studied on the anthropologist joined the team. A gifted musician Will Champion knew how to play keys, acoustic and bass guitars. Though for the drum installation, Will never sat down, he mastered the skills quickly and took the place of the drummer in the group.
Initially, the team was called "Pectoralz", but later the participants decided to change it to Starfish. The well-known "Coldplay" is borrowed from Phillip Creativity Chorch, a poem called "Child's Reflections, Cold Play". The idea of a compound of 2 words belongs to Tim Rice-Oxley, but the musician presented it by considering that the name is a clear depressive shade.
Chris Martin invited to his group for Keyman Tim Rice-Oxley, with whom the soloist met in college. But he received a refusal, because Tim has already consisted in his own group "Keane". After graduation, the Group members signed a contract with the Parlophone British label.
Music
Frontman Chris Martin at one time called the music genre played by the group, Limestone Rock in comparison with Hard Rock.
The band has released a mini-album "Safety" on May 18, 1998, but the main part of the copies went to different labels, something distributed to the group's friends. Total 50 copies were intended for implementation. At the end of the same year, the Coldplay group is invited to sign up for the Fierce Panda label, where in 4 days a mini-album called "Brothers & Sisters" was ready. The release of the album occurred in the spring of 1999, and the compositions from it quickly won popularity.
After a successful speech at the Glastonbury Music Festival, the ColdPlay group went to work on a new album. The next mini-album "The Blu Room" went out of 5000 copies. His record was extremely tense, the soloist and the drummer were very crowded, and the latter decided to leave the group. Few later, Chris apologized to Will, and the musicians were recalled.
November 1999 became the "COLDPLAY" group, participants began to record a debut album. The first Trek "Shiver" took 35th place in the British Charts of the Top-40 singles. The same song has become the debut on MTV.
The release of the first studio album occurred in July 2000. The record came out on the first place of the Chart albums of the United Kingdom. There was no criticism here - some talked about similarity with the Albums "The Bends" and "OK Computer" of the group "Radiohead". But this did not prevent the Singles "Yellow" and "Trouble" to occupy the top lines of musical charts.
The label, which released the album, expects to sell 40 thousand copies, but as a result, it was significantly a big profit: only 1.6 million copies were implemented in the UK.
Conquered a huge success in Europe, the team decided to strengthen in America. In the US, the release of the debut album took place in November 2000. The Coldplay group performed in the clubs of America, waking up the first concert in Vancouver. The team tried more often to glow on TV channels in the United States. The efforts of the musicians were not in vain, as a result, the album was "twice platinum" and received Grammy in 2002.
In October 2001, the Group began to record the album "A Rush of Blood to the Head", the release of which was held in August 2002. The participants in the group "Coldplay" 18 months were engaged in promoting the album and gave concerts in his support.
The first track "Politik" from this album wrote a frontman group after September 11 terrorist attacks in New York. According to Chris, the text and the music of deep at night came to his head. He immediately tried to play and write down the composition. At the same time, the record came out quiet, but the soloist later called this song "The most loud song of the group." The compositions "God Put a Smile Upon Your Face", "The Scientist", "In My Place" and "Clocks" became the most successful.
During the tour, in support of the second album, the group visited 5 continents and became one of the chadliners of Glastonbury festivals, V2003 and Rock Werchter. During the existence, the group received many awards, one of which was awarded the prize with the Rolling Stone magazine as the best group of 2003. The second album took 473 position in the ranking of the 500 best albums of all time.
In the process of recording the third album "X & Y", the group participants decided to change the permanent producer of Ken Nelson, inviting him to Denton Sapple. The album was published at the beginning of the summer of 2005, and by the end of December, 8.3 million copies were already sold. This disc was the most-selling EMI label album in 2005. Moreover, X & Y immediately ranked first positions in 28 countries around the world.
In the fall of 2006, the participants of the group began to create a 4 studio album. The first tracks that blown up the Internet are "Violet Hill" and "Viva La Vida". As for the last song, then the group "Coldplay" 3 times accused of stolen the song. But the claims were unreasonable.
When the group went on tour in support of 4 albums, relations between the participants were stretched. Upon returning from tour, the soloist suggested that the album would be the last in their discography.
However, after this statement in 2011, another album "MYLO XYLOTO" came out. After this work, the participants began to work on a new album. COLDPLAY Group developed the idea of a more acoustic album. Thus, in December 2015, the seventh album "A Head Full Of Dreams" was released. In 2015, a video came out with monkeys on the song "Adventure of A Lifetime" from this album in the genre of alternative music and indie rock. The songs of the group often play the ukulele, chords can be found on the net.
"COLDPLAY" now
At the end of January 2016, the Group made a Four Or presenting a video clip to the song "Hymn for the Weekend". According to the Solist's story, one day he thought about the fact that the group had no songs for nightclubs. Chris reflects, as if this composition could be called, as he sounded - he appeared hit. For several months, the clip "Coldplay" and Beyonce scored more than 150 million views on the official Youtube channel.
In June 2018 it became known that the "Coldplay" frontman acquired the theater for 99 places in Malibu worth $ 4.45 million. At the same time the theater was a church, and after - a recording studio. It is not yet known that the musician is going to do with the theater.
As for the personal life of Frontman, Chris Martin has lived in a legitimate marriage with the famous actress Gwyneth Paltrow, but in 2014 the couple decided to part. Two children remained from the Union: Eppl's daughter Blyz Eliason 2004 born and son Moses Bruce Anthony, born in 2006. The former Solist's wife is Vegetarian, what he learned and the whole family. But after breaking, Chris returned to the old habits.
In the summer of 2017, the group toured the world in support of the last album. For all the time "COLDPLAY" has never come to Russia, to the vast regret of the country's fans.
The group received 6 nominations for the Billboard Music Awards Awards 2018. Now the team news can be found on the official website.
Clips
- 1999 - "Bigger Stronger"
- 2000 - "Trouble"
- 2001 - "DON'T PANIC"
- 2002 - "IN MY PLACE"
- 2003 - "Clocks"
- 2005 - "Speed of Sound"
- 2006 - "The Hardest Part"
- 2008 - "Violet Hill"
- 2009 - "Life in Technicolor II"
- 2010 - "Christmas Lights"
- 2011 - "Every Teardrop IS A Waterfall"
- 2012 - "Charlie Brown"
- 2014 - "Midnight"
- 2015 - "Adventure of A Lifetime"
- 2016 - "Birds"
- 2017 - "Amazing Day"
Discography
- 2000 - Parachutes.
- 2002 - A RUSH OF BLOOD TO THE HEAD
- 2005 - X & Y
- 2008 - Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends
- 2011 - MYLO XYLOTO
- 2014 - Ghost Stories
- 2015 - A Head Full Of Dreams