[00:01.71]The members of Coldplay come from all over the UK.
[00:05.09]Guitarist John Buckland comes from Wales
[00:07.71]Drummer Will Champion is from Southampton
[00:10.70]Base player Guy Berryman grew up in Scotland
[00:13.96]But dig in the real inside into the inspiration behind Coldplay,
[00:18.21]You need to know how singer, Chris Martin,
[00:20.27]Spent his early years.
[00:22.48]Growing up in Exeter, a small town in southwest Britain,
[00:26.29]Chris Martin cut the singing bug as a child.
[00:29.12]After hearing Freddie Mercury on his radio.
[00:32.01]When he was 13,
[00:33.34]his parents bought him the first guitar while on vacation in Venice.
[00:37.71]That wasn't long before he started to write his own songs.
[00:42.63]I think one of the main reasons that
[00:45.72]Coldplay sort of made it out as the mainstream,
[00:47.59]And made it out of the pop world and also broke America.
[00:50.90]Was because of the uniqueness of Chris Martin's voice,
[00:56.88]He's..he's almost..I wanna say that
[01:00.29]He's got, like, an oldschool style of singing,
[01:04.12]And the..he's not sort of trying..
[01:06.50]Trying to mimic any type or (???) or other band's sort of way of singing
[01:12.39]He's very individual, he's quite poetic in the way he sings
[01:17.30]He like holds the nose and really like sort of reinforces it and...