Coldplay: Viva Coldplay! - A Biography

by Martin Roach

Overview

Author Martin Roach reveals how the band members met, played their early gigs, financed their own early EPs and how with four hit albums under their belt they still continue to maintain a tight degree of control over their output. Featuring insights into Coldplay's professional insecurities and anxieties, their very successful efforts to crack the US, the notoriously angst-ridden personality of lead vocalist Chris Martin and the bands continuing personal and professional evolution with each of their acclaimed albums, this is an in-depth portrait of one of Britain s most successful bands of the new millennium. Marked by individuality, integrity and musical talent, Coldplay's is an exceptional and compelling story and "Viva Coldplay" does it full justice.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781849385466
Publisher:	Omnibus Press
Publication date:	11/01/2010
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

As editor and publisher of his own independent Music Press, Martin Roach is an experienced chronicler of modern rock. He has written biographies on Blur, The Prodigy and others.

Table of Contents

Introduction vii

1 Winners and Losers In Cool Britannia 1

2 Safety In Numbers 13

3 Harvest Festivals And The Feeding Of The 100,000 25

4 Turning Up The Heat 29

5 Yellow 35

6 One Thousand, Two Thousand, Three Thousand... Check... Five Million 43

7 (Un)fitter, But Happier? 51

8 Bed-wetters, Plain And Simple 57

9 Cauliflower-gate 63

10 Spending Time With Uncle Sam (Inc.) 71

11 The Yellow Man 79

12 Mac The Knife 85

13 The Rush Begins 95

14 Going Round The Bends 109

15 Sneaking In Through The (Sliding) Doors 115

16 When Will We Be Kings? 121

17 Memories From My Father's Car 125

18 New Beginnings 131

19 Off The Radar 139

20 Alien Digital Rabbits Etc 147

21 X&Y 155

22 Drumsticks 167

23 The Fabulous Baker Boys 173

24 "Have we Cracked It Yet?" 185

25 A Fresh Start 195