How did Coldplay become the biggest band in the world? Take four unassuming London uni students, create anthems with soaring high notes and add guitars and lashings of emotion.
You are a bit perplexed. You know the song Yellow and that other one, the slow, sad one with the bit where the vocalist goes all high and vulnerable as he sings about a scientist. Or something. You're pretty sure there's a celebrity actor connection and maybe an oddly named child, too.
Coldplay - that's it. Yeah, you think, I like them. Like about 20 million others who've bought their albums. Their third, X&Y, was the world's best-selling album last year, with more than 8 million copies sold in the six months after its June release. The first single from that album, Speed of Sound, became the first British single to debut in the American Top 10 since Hey Jude in 1968. They are huge. Globe-straddlingly huge.
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