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Chris Martin (lead vocals)John Buckland (lead guitar)Will Champion (drums)Guy Berryman (base player) Chris
Name: Chris Martin
Age: 23
Place of Birth: Devon
Instruments: Vocals, acoustic guitar, piano/keyboard, harmonica
Schooling: University College London (first in Ancient World Studies)
Previous Bands: The Rockin' Honkies, The Red Rooster Boogie Band and Pectoralz
Musical Tastes: Sparklehorse, The Flaming Lips, Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, Neil Young
Quotes: "Rock'n'roll is about doing what the f*ck you want. It doesn't have to be about doing huge amounts of drugs or being hedonistic. It's about not caring what anyone else thinks of you. Rock'n'roll is about the seeking of the ultimate pleasure. For us, that means hanging around together and playing music that we all love and not being afraid to say that's why we're doing it. We're a little too frank sometimes, and not as concerned with all the other stuff as we should be. That's fine, though. We just get on with doing it. We don't want to live up to anybody else's cliche."
"It started out as a joke really. We were up at Rockfield Studios in Wales and I came up with this melody. I started trying to sing like Neil Young, just cos the song had the word 'stars' and that seemed like a word you should sing in a Neil Young voice. It's funny how things happen." - Chris on 'Yellow'
Guy
Name: Guy Berryman
Age: 22
Place of Birth: Fife, Scotland
Instruments: Bass guitar.
Schooling: University College London (Engineering degree, dropped out after one year)
Previous Bands: Time Out
Musical Tastes: James Brown, Kool & The Gang, funk and soul.
Qoutes:
"It was guitar and keyboards...we played terrible, terrible stuff. The best musician in the group was really into Genesis. We would agonise for hours trying to work out horrible prog rock stuff with ridiculous solos. We never got anywhere near it - we'd muck about and make a noise." - Guy on Time Out
"Some music comes from struggle, but more basic than that is a fundamental love of music."
"Someone I got the wrong impression of when I first met. He's not as scary as he looks - he's a lot nicer. The dark member of the band. Everyone thinks he's moody. Soft-spoken is better." - Chris on Guy
Jon
Name: Jonny Buckland
Age: 22
Place of Birth: Mold, North Wales
Instruments: Electric guitar.
Schooling: University College London (2.1 in maths and astronomy)
Previous Bands: None
Musical Likes: The Stone Roses, Ride
Quotes:
"Yes, it's not an area you really associate with music. But Rhys Ifans is from around there." Jon on Mold
"Talented. Funny. Great guitarist." - Chris on Jonny
"If this all ended tomorrow, we'd still be doing it"
Will
Name: Will Champion
Age: 21
Place of Birth: Southampton
Instruments: Drums
Schooling: University College London (2.1 in anthropology)
Previous Bands: Fat Hamster
Musical Tastes: Irish folk
Quotes:
"Yes, happy times, it's my socio-biology lecturer I remember best. He was always saying he had enough material to give a six-week lecture course on the masturbatory behaviour of gorillas."
"Ah, yes, dear old Bungle, and best of all George - the nation's first explicitly gay TV puppet. I wonder what happened to George?"
"Will's dad is like the Michael Jackson of archaeology" - Chris
"Will is like a human jukebox, he's more a guitarist than a drummer. Me and Will used to sit on the stairs at our halls of residence and he'd know more songs than anyone. You name it, he'd play it." - Chris
"He's extremely strong, extremely funny, extremely good at stuff - he's particularly good at Michael Owen impressions. What's the word? Trustworthy." - Guy
