Coldplay

Coldplay members Chris Martin and Johnny Buckland met at University College London in 1996 and immediately decided they would start a band. The current line-up was formed by 1997, when two more students of the same college, Berryman and Champion, joined the duo (the latter first played guitar and piano, but retrained as a drummer if necessary). The first demo releases appeared already in 1998 (Safety EP) and 1999 (Brothers and Sister EP). This was followed by the signing of a five-album contract with Parlophone and the release of The Blue Room EP, during the recording of which Martin kicked Johnny Champion out of the band, and then begged him to come back and started drinking to celebrate. As a result of internal conflicts, the group developed a code of conduct based on democratic principles; in it, in particular, it was written that the profits from the recordings would be divided equally, and anyone who was noticed using hard drugs would have to leave the ensemble.
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