According to the man from the independent record label that discovered him, Coldplay's Chris Martin was little more than a "gibbering fool in a tank-top with Leo Sayer hair" when he first started out in the music business. Unfortunately for the label, Martin's global celebrity, his glamorous relationship with Gwyneth Paltrow and his nascent taste for macrobiotic food only blossomed after he had jumped ship and signed his band with industry giant EMI.
It is a leap made all too often by the hottest new acts to hit the charts in recent years, among them Keane, The Darkness, Snow Patrol and Kaiser Chiefs.
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