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AskMen.com feature o­n Coldplay that includes pics, pictures, biography, video, related news, vital stats, commentary, and cool facts.   In a music industry overrun with senseless, jarring noise or vacuous glitter pop, it’s refreshing to have a band with a knack for rich melodies and great lyrics. Our need for a British rock band whose members are actually cool was long overdue.   Their first album, Parachutes, was an immediate hit, selling over five million copies worldwide, and their second o

It's one of the great soap opera plot staples - you need someone's guilty little secret exposed, you set them up to have a small accident somewhere they shouldn't be. And so it is with Chris Martin - soft, caring, socially aware Chris Martin.   Recently, he pranged the back of a woman's car in London. Now, it's not so much that he shouldn't have been in London, but that someone who really worries about the planet and people on it shouldn't have been sitting behind the wheel of a SUV. Perhaps Chr

Mike Bell (Calgary Sun) has provided us all with some festive cheer - by writing a few seasonal wishes to his 'favourite' pop stars. Here are just a couple:   To Chris Martin from Coldplay: I wish you would cheer the hell up. Dude, you're making babies with Gwyneth Paltrow -- you should be high-fiving every man, woman and child you meet and writing songs so syrupy and upbeat they'd make a Care Bear puke.   To Green Day: God help me, but I wish a Jeb Bush presidency in 2008. If American Idiot is

Ben Folds, Aimee Mann also join in special cameos, ring tone promotions   On a recent episode of CSI: NY, Detective Danny Messer's cell phone rang with a familiar tone. "Coldplay?" his partner asks. "Yeah," says Messer. "It's called 'Talk' -- something my girlfriend's really good at." In two commercial breaks that followed, CBS ran ads for the ring tone used on the show - the second single from Coldplay's multiplatinum X&Y -- before it was available elsewhere. No money changed hands for the

Cited as an influence on many new UK bands, and, at the same time, dubbed outdated and irrelevant, Noel Gallagher [pictured] is not all that enthusiastic about the music scene these days.   For him, the last great album was Parachutes, the debut album by Coldplay. So it's probably not a surprise that Chris Martin has said how Coldplay were influenced by Definitely Maybe.   "I feel flattered," Gallagher said. "I've got to say I don't hear it in the music, but that's cool because I like Coldplay a

Singer Chris Martin and the other three members of Coldplay had answered questions from a select group of McCallum High School music students for about half an hour after sound check for Friday's "Austin City Limits" taping when the show's producer asked Martin to leave the teenagers with one final thought.   "Here's something," the affable pop star said, raising a finger in the air, as if deep in thought. "Matthew McConaughey's in his 30s, right, and there's absolutely no hair on his chest. Ho

If the members of U2 [pictured] are experiencing Vertigo these days, it's because they're looking down from an impressive height.   Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, an outspoken admirer, notes that "of all the bands that we loved as kids, they’re the only ones still going and still going great. They’re a towering presence, and to us they represent kind of a peak."   Read the full article here

The slightly more polished full-length Stars of CCTV was released last July and went straight into the top 10 of the album charts. It earned the band a nomination for the Mercury Music Prize.   "First, we were playing in New York when we heard about the Mercury. We were just about to play a gig in a venue called The Mercury Lounge, so we thought we were being given some sort of award just for playing the gig. It was weird. Then, o­n the night of the awards, we lost out by just o­ne vote o­n winn

It's been said there are only two sure things in life: death and taxes. Well, you can probably add another item to that list: massive first-week numbers for Coldplay albums.   The band's much-anticipated third album, X&Y, moved more than 730,000 copies in its first week of release (see "Coldplay Beat Peas And Stripes By A Mile With X&Y"), only further cementing Coldplay's status as one of rock's few sure bets in an era of bling, Bentleys and general un-rockingness. In fact, you could mak

NEW YORK -- With some 20 million albums sold worldwide, it's clear Coldplay has its share of fans. What surprises singer Chris Martin is all the people who actively hate the band.   Coldplay doesn't inspire much ambivalence.   "Everyone tells me it's very healthy," Martin recently told The Associated Press. "It's very depressing, but it's very healthy. We always have this bubbling level of vitriol."   Both sides have renewed the debate with the release of "X&Y," the band's third album. The d

The morning after four bombs detonate in London, Chris Martin climbs aboard a Number Twenty-nine red double-decker bus and up its winding stairs. As we slowly putter south down Camden Road, Martin whips back the top of his hooded sweat shirt, smiles and says, "I haven't done this in so long."   He's not talking about riding public transportation but rather about a visit to his old neighborhood, where he and Coldplay first started writing, rehearsing and performing the songs that would shape the

Coldplay released the album “X&Y” exclusively on iTunes, with two extra songs not available anywhere else, the great clatter heard around the world was the sound of records being broken.   The first single, “Speed of Sound,” is the best-selling song on Apple Computer Inc.’s iTunes Music Store – not a surprise, given that digital downloading has been all about singles, which make up more than 98 percent of all digital sales.   What was surprising, even stunning, was the album sales. In the fi

Coldplay X&Y Review Source: Daily Mail, UK, Friday 3 June, 2005 The main thing that strikes you about the new Coldplay album is not the geometric sleeve or Chris Martin's aching vocals. It's the way that Britain's best band have turned themselves into a wide-screen production: big, broad, and surely bound for world domination. X&Y attempts to do for Coldplay what 1984's the unforgetable fire did for U2. There have been changes aplenty in and around the group since 2002's A Rush of Blood

It is the afternoon of Coldplay's feverishly anticipated concert at Metro last weekend, and singer Chris Martin is for the first time hearing a blow-by-blow description of the ticket sale that preceded it.   Hundreds of fans waited in line at the club's box office for hours the previous weekend, only to be shut out of tickets when the show sold out in mere seconds. Within hours, the $23 tickets were being auctioned by scalpers for $700 or more on eBay.   Martin tilts back on a footstool in his h

He may wear a hoodie from time to time and has a bit of previous when it comes to paparazzi, but for all his rock 'n' roll trappings he is as far from yob culture and celebrity sleaze as it's possible for a rock star to be. He has chart success, critical acclaim and Gwynnie. Now for that difficult third album...   He frequently stalks the streets in a "hoodie" pulled up to disguise his face, and has been in trouble for the occasional scuffle. Chris Martin would not, presumably, be welcome at the

Friday the 13th was not unlucky for the 2,000 fans who smiled their way into Avalon last night to see Coldplay. Avalon owner Patrick Lyons said he had more ticket requests to this than for any other show in his history there -- and that includes past dates by a few folks named Prince, Eric Clapton, and Bob Dylan.   The British band has sold 16 million albums and won four Grammys in the last five years. And recently, its new single, ''Speed of Sound," entered Billboard's Hot 100 at No. 8 -- the f

Britain's top two rock bands are releasing albums within a week of each other. Neil McCormick from The Telegraph has heard them both   Oasis and Coldplay, arguably the most popular and significant rock bands in the UK, are set to release new albums which should reveal a great deal about the healthy state of British pop music.   This is no bitter Blur vs Oasis rivalry. They may seem worlds apart in terms of background and sensibility - the hedonistic, defiantly working-class Manchester lads and t

The cynic is compelled, amidst the frenzied run-up to what many are already touting as the rock album of the year, to ask a simple question: Why Coldplay?   Why, out of all the musicians plugging diligently away at their trade in this day and age, is this amiable troupe of young, sensitive Britons being touted as the group to unseat the likes of the Rolling Stones, U2 and Radiohead as the world's most beloved rock band? They're good, make no mistake — Coldplay's best songs ("Yellow," "Trouble,"

One of Britain's most successful universities is appealing to its wealthiest alumni in an attempt to raise £300 million to maintain its world class status.   University College London, one of the top four establishments in the country and recently ranked 25th in the world, will imitate its American rivals this week by trying to persuade former students to donate a proportion of their income to university coffers.   It will be followed by a similar campaign by Cambridge University, which will be

An interesting interview of Simon Pegg has appeared on the internet. Simon Pegg, who has previously played harmonica on festival stages with Coldplay, is good friends of Chris Martin, and godfather of his daughter, Apple.   You can read the full interview here.

You may wish to read Coldplaying.com's review of the unofficial DVD released this year. It is posted here.

Last week we published a link to an article regarding Chris Martin's Dad's fight to build homes in Exeter, UK. For those who are interested, you can read the outcome here.

A few more links to the 'Nelly Furtado/Chris Martin' story can be found here, here and here

Not to be outdone, The Sun has also posted an online article about Chris & Gwyneth's house move across London. This time, there's an added edge to it...   Read the article here.

An article unrelated to the band has popped up here.