Coldplay in a documentary airing on Rai5 as part of the Rock Legends series

"Rock Legends", airing tomorrow at 00:30 on Rai 5, tells the story of Chris Martin & co.'s irresistible rise, tracing the history of Coldplay from their beginnings to international success.
The "Rock Legends" series celebrates rock and pop milestones in "extended play" form: through interviews, music, anecdotes and music videos, each episode traces in almost an hour the life and career of icons who left an indelible mark and continue to inspire generations.

The story of Coldplay is one of the simplest, the quintessential tale of a band that made it from nothing: in 1996, during freshers' week at University College London, the then seventeen-year-old Chris Martin, born in London but raised in Mold (North Wales), met the shy Jon Buckland. Amid the small talk, a shared passion emerged: both had loved music since their earliest years. Chris Martin formed his first band at just eleven years old, by which time he was already listening to towering songwriters such as Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, Nick Drake, Tom Waits, Flaming Lips. They began fantasizing about a possible band to form, which actually started taking shape once Guy Berryman joined the group. Their sources of inspiration were well known: Beatles and Radiohead above all (Martin would state more than once that listening to Radiohead's "The Bends" greatly influenced his way of understanding music, as well as the underlying idea of the art he would soon want to make).
The sound, though still to be shaped, leaned toward the melodic intimacy that would characterize Coldplay's debut album. The project was pretty much set, but one crucial detail was still missing: a drummer. Young multi-instrumentalist Will Champion immediately immersed himself in the sound awaiting him, taking roughly three months to establish himself as the band's permanent drummer. It seems the name Coldplay was "swiped" from a mutual friend before he could use it for the band he was putting together himself. Chris Martin and co. had previously performed under the names Pectoralz and Starfish, even playing gigs, the most notable at the Laurel Tree in Camden, the London neighborhood renowned as a launching pad for young British musical talent. And so Coldplay were born.
Chris, the singer, occasionally handles piano duties, Jon plays bass, Guy plays guitar, Will plays drums. Four young men, each born in a different English city, each enrolled in a different course of study. And London's University College serving as the initiatory epicenter of a story destined to bring them fame and glory.

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