Non-rock star rock stars Coldplay endear themselves with music, manner
Way back at the turn of the century, a quartet of nice young working class boys, who met at the University College London, made an album called Parachutes featuring a catchy midtempo ditty with an earworm chorus that touted the emotional versatility of the color yellow.
The band was called Coldplay and it specialized in pleasant, lilting melodies that seemed to easily slip back and forth between mournful and uplifting, punctuated with anthemic choruses worthy of U2. With the testosterone-fueled nu metal crowd near the top of the charts and Radiohead confusing fans with the prickly, electronic-laced Kid A, Coldplay's familiar, alt-rock sound seemed like an oasis for folks who like to wave their hands back and forth and sing along at concerts.
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