1998-Chris MartinVocals, piano
Jonny BucklandGuitar
Guy BerrymanBass
Will ChampionDrums
The band met while they were going to University College in London. Guy Berryman is from Scotland (he is from Kirkcaldy near Edinburgh), and the rest of the band is from England.
The group was originally called Pectoralz, then Starfish, before finally settling on Coldplay in 1998. They are named after a British psychology book called Child's Reflections, Cold Play.
A contrast to Oasis, they are known as one of the nicest bands in England.
Chris Martin married Gwyneth Paltrow (the actress in Sliding Doors, Shakespeare In Love) on December 5, 2003. They have a daughter named Apple and a son named Moses.
Martin and Paltrow announced their separation in March 2014, after 10 years of marriage; Paltrow filed for divorce in April 2015.
Martin is in the 2004 movie
Shaun Of The Dead, playing a zombie.
>>
Suggestion credit:
Bertrand - Paris, France
Gwyneth Paltrow first agreed to go on a date with Chris Martin because they were often romantically linked in the press. "It's funny because people had started writing that we were going out and we had never even met. And then he was in Los Angeles doing a concert and an actress that he had a crush on was supposed to come to the concert. When she didn't show up, he was so annoyed that he said, 'Oh, this is for my girlfriend Gwyneth Paltrow,'' she recalled to The Sun. "Then people were saying, 'What's going on?' I was like, 'I've never met this guy, I've no idea!' And because of that, because people were writing about it, we ended up meeting at a concert and there you go. So, thank you!"
William Willett (1856-1915), who came up with the idea of changing the clocks for British summer time, is Chris Martin's great-great grandfather. Martin explained to Melody Maker: "He used to ride his horse early in the mornings in summer and no one else would be up. He thought it was a real shame that people were missing these hours of sunlight, so he had the idea of shifting the clock forward so it stayed light longer in the evening."
Chris Martin has synaesthesia, a neurological condition he shares with Lorde, Pharrell and John Mayer that can make him see sounds as colors. "I don't think that's unusual for songwriters," he told The Wall Street Journal. "When I think of other people's songs or albums, often a color comes to mind. The last album we made was supposed to be more silver and blue - two tones, quiet nighttime. With this one we're trying to do our whole spectrum. The colors we're missing within the band we tried to bring in with guests and other producers."
PETA named Chris Martin "World's Sexiest Vegetarian" in 2005. After separating from Gwyneth Paltrow, he started eating meat again, later describing himself as a "pescatarian who eats turkey."
Coldplay drummer Will Champion played a musician-turned-traitor in the Game of Thrones Season 3 episode "Rains of Castamere."
During Coldplay's early days, Chris Martin had a flatmate named Tim Prompton, who had a band called the Patina Motive. It was Crompton who came up with Coldplay's name.
Coldplay made their live debut at The Laurel Tree in Camden, London, on January 16, 1998. Tickets cost £4, and 115 people showed up.
The front cover of Coldplay's debut album, Parachutes, features a photograph of a spinning globe as taken by Martin on a disposable camera. Martin purchased the globe from the British stationery store WHSmith for £10.
Chris Martin's aunt was married to the former British prime minister Winston Churchill's late grandson, The Honourable Julian Sandys.
Coldplay split their royalties equally among all four members. U2 and REM are among the other bands to have taken this democratic approach to their earnings.
The band briefly went under the name Los Unidades for their 14th EP, Global Citizen – EP 1. The EP was released ahead of Martin's appearance at Global Citizen Festival: Mandela 100 in Johannesburg on December 2, 2018.
Will Champion's mother, Sara Champion, was a pioneer in the field of archaeology and her work has had a lasting impact. She was a tireless advocate for women in archaeology and was instrumental in developing the internet as a tool for archaeological research.
Sara Champion succumbed to cancer aged 54 in May 2000. To honor her enduring legacy, the Prehistoric Society hosts an annual Sara Champion Memorial Lecture, a testament to her groundbreaking contributions. Her funeral coincided with the day Chris Martin filmed the music video for "
Yellow." The
Parachutes album was dedicated to her.