Coldplay by Martin Roach (2003, Paperback) 
Coldplay by Martin Roach (2003, Paperback)

 
Coldplay by Martin Roach (2003, Paperback)

Author: Martin Roach
Publisher: Omnibus Pr & Schirmer Trade Books
Publication Date: 2003-09-01
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0711998108
ISBN-13: 9780711998100
Product ID: EPID6020284
Description: Martin Roach's entertaining biography of Coldplay, NOBODY SAID IT WAS EASY, is remarkable for the author's difficulty in coming up with the requisite tales of rock & roll mayhem. When Roach starts devoting pages to itemizing the debauche...
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Synopsis
Martin Roach's entertaining biography of Coldplay, NOBODY SAID IT WAS EASY, is remarkable for the author's difficulty in coming up with the requisite tales of rock & roll mayhem. When Roach starts devoting pages to itemizing the debauchery the band doesn't indulge in, it becomes plain that Coldplay is a band less involved with groupies, booze, and drugs than with making music that competes with or surpasses that of its competitors, which in the late 1990s included Oasis and Radiohead. The band's main brushes with controversy come when Alan McGee, the boss of Oasis' label, Creation Records, calls them "pathetic," an episode they handle with polite if un-newsworthy aplomb, and when the story first leaks out about front man Chris Martin's relationship with actress Gwyneth Paltrow. Most of NOBODY SAID IT WAS EASY is taken up with Coldplay's focused and disciplined rise to fame in the wake of Britpop and their search for and gradual discovery of their own sound. Roach analyzes the band's often intricate songwriting and recording methods, recounting the genesis of the band's first international hit, "Yellow," and their subsequent elevated status as inheritors of the Oasis mantle. While it predates Martin and Paltrow's subsequent 2003 marriage and the birth of their son, as well as Coldplay's 2004 Grammy-winning single, "Clocks," NOBODY SAID is an illuminating look at the band's formative years.

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Publication Date:2003-09-01

Size
Length:240 pages
Height:9.8 in
Width:6.8 in
Thickness:0.5 in
Weight:15.2 oz

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