VIDEOGRAPHY

DISCOGRAPHY

• Parachutes (2000)
• A Rush of Blood to the Head (2002)
• X&Y (2005)
• Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends (2008)
• Mylo Xyloto (2011)

[edit]Concert tours                                                                                                      

• Parachutes Tour (2000–01)
• A Rush of Blood to the Head Tour (2002–03)
• Twisted Logic Tour (2005–07)
• Viva la Vida Tour (2008–10)
• Mylo Xyloto Tour (2011–13)

taken from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coldplay

COLDPLAY`S BIOGRAPHY

Coldplay are a British rock band formed in 1996 by lead vocalist Chris Martin and lead guitarist Jonny Buckland at University College London.After they formed under the name Pectoralz, Guy Berryman joined the group as a bassist and they changed their name to Starfish.Will Champion joined as a drummer, backing vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist, completing the line-up. Manager Phil Harvey is often considered an unofficial fifth member. The band renamed themselves "Coldplay" in 1998,before recording and releasing three EPs; Safety in 1998, Brothers & Sisters as a single in 1999 and The Blue Room in the same year. The latter was their first release on a major label, after signing to Parlophone.

Chris Martin and Jonny Buckland first met during their orientation week at University College London (UCL) in September 1996. The pair spent the rest of the university year planning a band, ultimately forming a group called Pectoralz.Guy Berryman, a classmate of Martin and Buckland, later joined the group. By 1997, the group, who had renamed themselves Starfish, performed gigs for local Camden promoters at small clubs.Martin also had recruited his longtime school friend Phil Harvey, who was studying classics at the University of Oxford, to be the band's manager.Coldplay have since accepted Harvey as the fifth member of the group.The band's line-up was completed when Will Champion joined to take up percussion duties. Champion had grown up playing piano, guitar, bass, and tin whistle; he quickly learned the drums (despite having no previous experience).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 group.By 1997, Martin had also met then Classics student Tim Rice-Oxley. During a weekend on Virginia Water, they asked each other to play off their own songs on the piano. 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. Days after, this event would shape the second line-up of Keane and keep Coldplay's unaltered, thus leaving both bands as quartets.


taken from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coldplay

INTRODUCTION

Why i chose Coldplay? i chose coldplay because their songs are full of good content and the lyrics tell a story and then they create the music how they will sound and i like them because almost all of their songs represent what i think, feel, or happened in my life i don`t have a favorite member of the band just i like them all because everyone have a single purpose on the band.

MUSIC GENRE´S

coldplay is a band of 4 guys that have specific characteristics of an alternative band, the lyrics of the songs they write are pretty meaningfull and they transmit a message, the have guitars that blast out power chords, pick out chiming riffs, fuzztones, guitars sounds as in indie pop and a little bit of grunge guitar.

Coldplay's frontman Chris Martin once proclaimed the band's music as "limestone rock" in comparison to "hard rock".The band's music has been called "meditative" and "blue romantic"; it "[reflects] on their emotions" and Martin "endlessly examine[s] his feelings". Martin's lyrical wordplay has been called feminist, similar to Andrew Montgomery of Geneva.

The tone of the band's first studio album, Parachutes, was described as melodic pop with "distorted guitar riffs and swishing percussion" but also being "exquisitely dark and artistically abrasive".Such alternative rock style has been compared to bands like U2, Oasis, Radiohead and Travis. The band acknowledges the Scottish alternative rock band, Travis, as a major influence on their earlier material.

ADAPTED FROM: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coldplay