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A member of the British rock band Coldplay.
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Coldplay’s new album is called Parachutes. […] Most British rock bands now are happy to be a lot of people’s third favourite band. […] They have a broad, unexclusive appeal. Your mum quite likes that [Doris Eaton] Travis song — you know, the one about singing in the rain. Your dad likes the Coldplayers’ album.
The fact that the other Coldplayers refuse to look at him [Chris Martin] (unless it’s to smirk derisively) while performing has been cited as evidence of a feud (although our theory is that they’re simply shoe-gazing).
COLDPLAYERS: [Chris] Martin, front, is a hopeful romantic
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The boyish Canadian crooner [Ron Sexsmith] is Coldplay’s opening act on this leg of their tour, and he’s been crafting the same kind of reflective and bittersweet ballads as main Coldplayer Chris Martin since 1985 — but with a lot less success.
The band managed to leave the pressures of global fame outside the Liverpool studio while “Rush of Blood” was rushed to completion in late 2001. The Coldplayers felt confident their sophomore effort would please fans — until they got an earful of vintage George Harrison. During a brief trip to Los Angeles, the band stopped by Capitol Records and heard “Isn’t It a Pity” from Harrison’s “All Things Must Pass.” “That knocked my head off,” [Chris] Martin says. “On the plane on the way back to England, I realized we didn’t have a single song as good as that.”
The Coldplayers are humanists in a scientific world, crooners in a sea of techno.
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COLDPLAYER, SELF-HATER / CHRIS MARTIN THRIVES ON POST-ADOLESCENT ANGST — BUT WITH A WORLD VIEW
Ballads died with hair-rock, and even though our post-9/11 world loves stupefying sentimentality, it’s time for us to realize that we need to dump the Coldplayers the way we dumped rock rap and boy bands. We need dance music!
According to news reports, Chris Martin, main Coldplayer and husband to Gwyneth Paltrow, has been seeing a hypnotist to help relieve the “stress of song writing.”
Coldplayer heats up / Chris Martin of Coldplay performs during the “Viva La Vida” Tour at the O2 World Arena on Monday in Berlin, Germany.