The album’s cover features a photograph of a globe taken with a disposable Kodak camera. Martin, finding Rice-Oxley to be talented, asked him to be Coldplay’s keyboard player but Rice-Oxley refused as his own band, Keane, was already active.Īfter recording and releasing three EPs: Safety in 1998, Brothers & Sisters as a single in 1999 and after signing to Parlophone, The Blue Room, their first release on a major label.īy September 1999, Coldplay were recording what would become their debut album, Parachutes, which was released in the UK in July 2000, (and November 2000 in North America). The band finally settled on the name “Coldplay” which was suggested by Tim Crompton, a local student who had been using the name for his own group.ĭuring 1997, Martin had met then Classics student Tim Rice-Oxley and asked each other to play off their own songs on the piano. Multi-instrumentalist Champion learnt how to play drums in order to serve as the drummer for the band. While at UCL (where he read Ancient World Studies and graduated with first-class honours degree in Greek and Latin), he met future Coldplay bandmates Jonny Buckland, Will Champion and Guy Berryman.įirst know as Starfish the band became Coldplay after drummer Will Champion joined the ranks in July 1997. He boarded at Sherborne School in Dorset and where he met future Coldplay manager Phil Harvey. He found his passion for music at a young age. Martin was born in Whitestone, Exeter, Devon, the eldest of five children. Radiohead had just released their follow-up to OK Computer, the experimental Kid A to mixed reviews, (but big sales).Ĭoldplay formed in 1996 by Chris Martin and guitarist Jonny Buckland at University College London (UCL), under the name Pectoralz. Martin went on to further explain that the word “yellow” has absolutely no meaning whatsoever and while writing the rest of the song he tried his best to change yellow to something else since every lyric before yellow made no sense but in the end the word “yellow” just sounded right.Ĭoldplay appeared from nowhere and in no time at all, we were all singing “Look at the stars, Look how they shine for you, And everything you do, Yeah, they were all yellow”.Ĭoldplay’s emergence was perfectly timed in 2000, Oasis had sacked two of its founding members and embraced psychedelic experimentation on Standing on the Shoulder of Giants. Chris Martin later explained that he was impersonating Neil Young while entertaining guests when he came across the first chord of a song, which stuck with him for a bit then in a Neil Young voice he sang “look at the stars”.
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