Coldplay: Day 8
Source: Billboard Starting off this post with a nice little picture of the band. Man look at those cute little guys! This photo was apparently taken sometime around the year 2000, the same year Parachutes was released, and the year of their first concert tour ( Wikipedia ). Chris Martin was 23 that year! Of course this isn't incredibly young for a musical artist, but it still really puts their music into perspective, knowing they were all in their early 20s (or maybe late-teens) when they wrote these early songs. Just for fun here's a comparison of him then and now, he's definitely a bit more grizzled, but he still looks young. The success that Coldplay had already achieved by this point in their careers is actually pretty incredible. Parachutes went #1 in the UK, won British Album of the Year at the Brit Awards, and also won the Grammy for Best Alternative Music Album. Their success though, was accompanied by the beginning of Coldplay Hate. Coldplay Hate (my own term), ...