For those who already have it...I translated the parts where Paola speaks in italian, but never posted..hope they can be useful now (I apologise in advance for any mistake you will find) :cool:
Part1: November of 5 years ago..a british band made up of 4 very young guys just off the University enters the MTV Sonic studios here in Milan. They have a great dream, to give something great to the world of pop music.
In that period the classic rock was in the charts, like U2's, RHCP's, Lenny Kravitz's and a band between rap and rock called Limp Bizkit coming form the USA. But apart from the presence in the charts of an amazing album like Kid A by Radiohead no one had yet carefully listened to that intimate, profundly emotional and independent pop-rock that Coldplay were ready to give.
I met them in Milan the day of the bassist's (Guy Berryman) birthday, of course before the release of their brand new album X&Y.
Part2: After having sold 17 million copies and being constantly in the spotlight and protagonists of curiosity, sometimes even morbid, of public and music people, what is really fascinating about Coldplay is that all this has not changed the spirit that animated them when they were just off the University and which still animates them. They're still on the ground, and this makes them really special. You will see this during the interview that will follow after the commercial break: we will talk about their social committment, above all concerning the Make Trade Fair campaign, then you will see an extract from their very first interview with MTV Italy and now the video of The Scientist. In order to film this video Chris Martin needed a one month hard training to learn singing this song in reverse.
Part3: Welcome to Coldplay special. The international campaign for a Trade fair, so strongly and emotionally supported by Coldplay is carried on in Italy by transfair: the objective is to distribute resources more equally and above all to stop the expolitation and burden on farmers and workers of the Southern part of the world. Coldplay have always supported this campaign and there were no interviews or public appearances in which they didn't speak about it with their hearts open. Chris Martin went also to Ghana and Haiti to meet in first person the people for whom is fighting for.
Part4: When this interview was recorded in November 2000, Coldplay had just refused a bid made by a british telephone company of 100.000£, which are almost 150.000€, for using one of their songs for a commercial. Chris said that he would have never compromised the band's ideals for that amount, but maybe just for 10.000.000£ he would have accepted everything. Five years later, and just some weeks ago Coldplay entered the list of richest british young people, with a per-capita capital of 10.000.000£, the amount that just five years ago seemed totally impossible to have and for which they would have done anything...well they didn't have to compromise their ideals but they reached this sum by making the thing that comes more natural to them: writing really great songs.