I don't know if this has ever been posted, but I thought it was a good article. Some info on the guys. This was taken from the Evening Standard back in June. Here it goes:

 

FRIDAY PROFILE

 

COLDPLAY IT IS strange to think, but the seeds of the mournful, soul-searching ballads that have made Coldplay the biggest band in the world while dividing the nation into two distinct camps - you either love them or absolutely loathe them - were sown at Sherbourne school, where frontman Chris Martin was a pupil in the late Eighties and early Nineties.

 

"It is a very sporty school, and if you are not part of that, you are not part of the establishment," says a former pupil who was in the year below Martin.

 

"Chris was always very sincere and enthusiastic - qualities that don't go down well at public school - and he always went hell for leather playing his own songs at school concerts.

 

The school actually had a very well-equipped music room, which was usually commandeered by a couple of older boys who were into electronic music.

 

I remember Chris banging on the door, wanting to be let in, but they just told him to f*** off, saying they weren't interested in his juvenile compositions."

 

Those boys must be eating their words now. On Monday, HMV stores across the country opened early when Coldplay's third album, XY, went on sale, but even hardened record-shop bosses were surprised at the size of the crowds who boosted sales to 150,000 copies in a single day.

 

XY is on course to break the record for most units sold in the first week of release (currently held by Oasis, who shifted nearly 700,000 copies of Be Here Now in 1997), and its success has already inflated EMI's share price on the Dow Jones index.

 

And therein lies the rub: lots of us clearly love them, but it has to be said quite a few find Coldplay insufferable. David Sinclair in The Times likens the new record to "a bad U2 album"; and then, of course, there were the comments in the New York Times which described Martin's voice as something between "a yodel and a hiccup". Their sound, it went on, is "too polished, with no hint of human frailty ...", the band members too unassuming, mild-mannered and middleclass to be capable of great rock 'n' roll.

 

So, how did four nice boys from stable, Home Counties backgrounds come to be in the world's most successful group? Martin and his bandmates - Will Champion, drummer, Guy Berryman, keyboards, and Jonny Buckland, guitarist - met as students at University College London in 1998, and are already reckoned to be worth about Pounds 10 million apiece, thanks to income from their award-winning albums Parachutes and A Rush of Blood to the Head (although Martin writes the songs, the quartet share royalties equally).

 

The album and its spin-off singles and tour - their Crystal Palace concerts on 27 and 28 June sold out almost immediately - will further enrich them.

 

Martin's father is an accountant, his mother a biology teacher; Guy Berryman's dad is an engineer; Champion's father is an academic, as was his late mother. Buckland has never spoken about his parents; they took him to live in Wales when he was four.

 

The band have made a virtue of their studied ordinariness, and Martin, 28, has gone on record about how "boring" he is.

 

The closest the foursome have got to inspiring ire was when Alan McGee of Creation Records dismissed them as " bedwetters", and the tabloids have sought in vain for a whiff of high jinks. "They really are as un-rock 'n' roll as they seem," says Evening Standard rock critic David Smyth. Writer and broadcaster Pierre Perrone saw them "blow [headline act] Muse off the stage of the Astoria in 2000", but found no air of triumphalism when he interviewed them afterwards. "I told them they'd sell a million records, and they said, 'Get outta here,'" he recalls.

 

Perrone subsequently went on tour with the band in Sweden.

 

Surely, off the leash and overseas, Coldplay got up to some rowdy behaviour? "They played a lot of cricket and football," says Perrone. "Chris doesn't drink, but the others do, a bit.

 

They have a 'quiet coach' and a 'noisy coach' on tour, and Chris will be on the quiet coach, with the other three on the other one.

 

Jonny was one for the ladies in those days, and I remember he had two girlfriends on the go in Iceland at the same time, but that was about it. I accidentally chatted up Chris's then-girlfriend on that tour, but he just laughed about it. And the girl never sold her story."

 

OF COURSE, when Martin married Gwyneth Paltrow in 2003, and when they had their daughter, Apple, and moved into a Pounds 3.2 million Belsize Park home, Martin's life gained the colour it had previously lacked. One ex-girlfriend did sell her story (Martin was "lovely but hopeless" and a bit of a geek, apparently). Rumours abounded about Paltrow's influence over the singer: that she had introduced him to yoga (true) and put him on a strict macrobiotic diet (false, he says), the suggestion being that she was a divisive influence, Yoko Ono to his John Lennon. "Not true," says a source who has been close to the band for seven years. "The other three have seen what has happened to Chris with the newspapers, and it has made them more protective of him and keen to preserve their own privacy."

 

What, then, do we know of the other three members of Coldplay, so willingly overshadowed by Martin and his A-list wife?

 

Jonny Buckland, 27 - his Icelandic double- dating days behind him - has lived for the past three years with his girlfriend, Chloe, in a Pounds 575,000 Camden townhouse close to the Koko Club where Coldplay launched XY on Monday.

 

Guy Berryman, 27, got married last summer at Claridge's to Joanna Briston, who plans to open a boutique called Jezebel in Marylebone. They live in a Pounds 640,000 house in Hampstead, and first met at school at Kent College in Canterbury. "Their wedding was amazing," says Berryman's younger brother Mark, a chef at Nobu. "It was pretty low-key, but the other boys were there, and Gwyneth and Mel C."

 

So far, Martin is the only band member to become a father. "I don't know if they plan to start a family yet," says Mark Berryman of his brother and sister-inlaw, "but they have just got a dog" - a cairn terrier called Sid, named after Sex Pistols singer Sid Vicious.

 

Although Buckland is known as the quietest member of the group, it is Will Champion, also 27, who gives the least away in interviews. He lives in a Pounds 475,000 house in Kennington with his wife, teacher Marianne Dark, whom he married in 2003 in the Seychelles.

 

Only time will tell whether Coldplay become yet another Titanic of rock, sunk by delusions of grandeur. Heartening is the news that, although the first single from the new album, Speed of Sound, was kept off the UK number one spot by the infinitely more irritating Crazy Frog, it became the first British single to go straight into the US top 10 since the Beatles' Hey Jude 37 years ago. Something to celebrate, surely?

Thanks Sherine! :cool:

:cool: cheers

 

Berryman's younger brother Mark, a chef at Nobu. "It was pretty low-key, but the other boys were there, and Gwyneth and Mel C."

 

cool chef!, low-key ahh that so sweet - perfect Guy :heart:

Mel C :confused:

Thankyou!! :kiss:

 

Guy Berryman, 27, got married last summer at Claridge's to Joanna Briston, who plans to open a boutique called Jezebel in Marylebone. They live in a Pounds 640,000 house in Hampstead, and first met at school at Kent College in Canterbury. "Their wedding was amazing," says Berryman's younger brother Mark, a chef at Nobu. "It was pretty low-key, but the other boys were there, and Gwyneth and Mel C."

:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: *turns green with envy*

Jonny was one for the ladies in those days, and I remember he had two girlfriends on the go in Iceland at the same time, but that was about it.

:o

Thanks Sherine! :cool:

 

Aw, ur welcome! Anytime!

Martin and his bandmates - Will Champion' date=' drummer, [b']Guy Berryman, keyboards[/b], and Jonny Buckland, guitarist

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:cool: cheers

 

Berryman's younger brother Mark, a chef at Nobu. "It was pretty low-key, but the other boys were there, and Gwyneth and Mel C."

 

cool chef!, low-key ahh that so sweet - perfect Guy :heart:

Mel C :confused:

 

Ya I know! I was like, Mel C??????? :confused:

I remember Chris banging on the door, wanting to be let in, but they just told him to f*** off, saying they weren't interested in his juvenile compositions."

 

Those boys must be eating their words now.

 

:lol: they sure are :lol: :lol:

Sherine this one hellovan article...its a mag?

yeah Mel C :confused: ha ha

I found it online actually, but the Evening Standard's this tiny newspaper that's distributed in tube stations all over London. I'm actually surprised that no one's posted it before. I've seen a few Londoners here on the board!!

"It was pretty low-key, but the other boys were there, and Gwyneth and Mel C."

 

Mel C.? Please don't tell me this is one of the girls from Spice Girls!

 

Wow..this article has alot of personal information. I'm surprised that so much info is given. :stunned:

You mean Metro.

 

The Evening Standard is a huge paper published 3-4 times a day!

I'm surprised that so much info is given.

same don't know if Guy would be happy his brother is telling all

 

Edit: oh so its a tiny, large paper distributed in the tube station aka metro :lol:

You mean Metro.

 

The Evening Standard is a huge paper published 3-4 times a day!

 

No, no...it's the Evening Standard. Then I made a mistake with "the definition". My bad! I don't live in London. hehe. That's even more surprising though if it's published 3-4 times a day...

I'm surprised that so much info is given.

same don't know if Guy would be happy his brother is telling all

 

Edit: oh so its a tiny, large paper distributed in the tube station aka metro :lol:

 

I know! I was really surprised as well, especially with the girlfriend/wives' names and the HOUSE PRICES!!! I mean, how personal is that?? And given it's Coldplay, I was...WOW!!! I questioned how "authentic" it was at first, but it's the Evening Standard, so it's suppose to be pretty accurate I guess.

Evening Standard is not a tabloid? i thought it was....what would i know, i live in the states.

wow... poor chris though sounds like he had a tough time :cry: i feel for him i was bullied in year 7.

and Jonny who would've thought!! :stunned: but you know what they say its the quiet ones that you have to watch out for :lol:

Evening Standard is not a tabloid? i thought it was....what would i know, i live in the states.

:lol:

and Jonny who would've thought!! :stunned: but you know what they say its the quiet ones that you have to watch out for :lol:

 

hehe, so true! That's what went thru my mind when I first read about Jonny!

Evening Standard is not a tabloid? i thought it was....what would i know' date=' i live in the states.[/quote']

 

I don't think it's a tabloid...or at least i don't BELIEVE it's a tabloid. Ask Nettie. I'm sure she'll know more about how authentic the ES is viewed among Londoners.

You mean Metro.

 

The Evening Standard is a huge paper published 3-4 times a day!

 

No, no...it's the Evening Standard. Then I made a mistake with "the definition". My bad! I don't live in London. hehe. That's even more surprising though if it's published 3-4 times a day...

 

s'rite... :D

I swear to you...i'm not lying...I wondered what Will's wife's job was...my first guess was, 'she's probably a teacher' and i read this article and my god, i was right.

 

But, i would have never guessed that Guy's wife was a stylist!

I swear to you...i'm not lying...I wondered what Will's wife's job was...my first guess was' date=' 'she's probably a teacher' and i read this article and my god, i was right.[/quote']

 

 

:stunned: Me too!!!! hahahaha! there's something very teacher-y about Will, or that's what I think at least, so I kind of guessed his wife would be similar.

wil's wife a teacher? kinda cute..he's like the most low key of them all it seems to me.. a teacher? cute :blush: