[00:01.71]The members of Coldplay come from all over the UK.
[00:05.09]Guitarist John Buckland comes from Wales
[00:07.71]Drummer Will Champion is from Southampton
[00:10.70]Base player Guy Berryman grew up in Scotland
[00:13.96]But dig in the real inside into the inspiration behind Coldplay,
[00:18.21]You need to know how singer, Chris Martin,
[00:20.27]Spent his early years.
[00:22.48]Growing up in Exeter, a small town in southwest Britain,
[00:26.29]Chris Martin cut the singing bug as a child.
[00:29.12]After hearing Freddie Mercury on his radio.
[00:32.01]When he was 13,
[00:33.34]his parents bought him the first guitar while on vacation in Venice.
[00:37.71]That wasn't long before he started to write his own songs.
[00:42.63]I think one of the main reasons that
[00:45.72]Coldplay sort of made it out as the mainstream,
[00:47.59]And made it out of the pop world and also broke America.
[00:50.90]Was because of the uniqueness of Chris Martin's voice,
[00:56.88]He's..he's almost..I wanna say that
[01:00.29]He's got, like, an oldschool style of singing,
[01:04.12]And the..he's not sort of trying..
[01:06.50]Trying to mimic any type or (???) or other band's sort of way of singing
[01:12.39]He's very individual, he's quite poetic in the way he sings
[01:17.30]He like holds the nose and really like sort of reinforces it and...

The members of Coldplay come from all over the UK.
Guitarist John Buckland comes from Wales
Drummer Will Champion is from Southampton
Base player Guy Berryman grew up in Scotland
But dig in the real inside into the inspiration behind Coldplay,
You need to know how singer, Chris Martin,
Spent his early years.
Growing up in Exeter, a small town in southwest Britain,
Chris Martin cut the singing bug as a child.
After hearing Freddie Mercury on his radio.
When he was 13,
his parents bought him the first guitar while on vacation in Venice.
That wasn't long before he started to write his own songs.
I think one of the main reasons that
Coldplay sort of made it out as the mainstream,
And made it out of the pop world and also broke America.
Was because of the uniqueness of Chris Martin's voice,
He's..he's almost..I wanna say that
He's got, like, an oldschool style of singing,
And the..he's not sort of trying..
Trying to mimic any type or (???) or other band's sort of way of singing
He's very individual, he's quite poetic in the way he sings
He like holds the nose and really like sort of reinforces it and...