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READ: Coldplay's Chris Martin discusses allegedly being "the worst thing ever to happen to music"

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By Dan Busheikin (CHARTattack) October 31, 2011 2:53 pm
"Some people say we're talented and some say we're the worst thing ever to happen to music, and it's a bit confusing being in the middle of that." That's Coldplay's charming frontman Chris Martin, talking to Pitchfork about the collective Coldplay hate-on that he's had to deal with over the band's fifteen year career.As a band that sold fifty...
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I Read The News Today... For Dec. 22, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) December 22, 2010 2:59 pm
Elbow have announced the date when you can expect to take a long, extended nap their new Build A Rocket Boys! album comes out: March 8. Get your jammies ready.  —NME Lauryn Hill's announced a North American tour that'll take place in January. It's like 1998 just slapped you right in the face! —Ticketmaster Chris Martin decided he'd rather eat...
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I Read The News Today... For Oct. 28, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff October 28, 2010 12:47 pm
Ex-Watchmen and Thornley bassist Ken Tizzard will release a new album, Between The Lines, with his new backing band The Variety Show Players, next month. —The Peterborough ExaminerDeadmau5 apparently isn't very good at math. That's OK; most journalists aren't, either. He'll release a new album, 4x4=12, on Dec. 6. Insane Clown Posse are working on...
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I Read The News Today... For Aug. 25, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) August 25, 2010 12:48 pm
Megafaun, Four Tet, Ohbijou, Born Ruffians, Woodpigeon, Chad VanGaalen, and Diamond Rings are among the artists who've redone tracks from The Acorn's No Ghost for a remix album called Make The Least Of The Day. It's out digitally on Sept. 14. —Paper BagBehemoth frontman Adam "Nergal" Darski came down with an illness...
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Anvil: Winning Friends And Influencing People

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By Bianca Marcus (CHARTattack) January 8, 2010 11:45 am
During their initial rise to fame in the '80s, Anvil went from surviving on Kraft Dinner and salami to sharing a stage with Bon Jovi and Whitesnake. It seemed they were going to make it big — and fast. Life had its way with the Toronto headbangers, however, and because of poor management and crappy timing, Anvil teetered over fame's razor edge...
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Fleet Foxes, Chris Martin, Wolfmother Playing Neil Young's Bridge School Benefit

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) September 15, 2009 2:37 pm
No Doubt, Coldplay's Chris Martin, Fleet Foxes, Wolfmother, Gavin Rossdale, Monsters Of Folk and Sheryl Crow are among those who've been added to the lineup for this year's installment of Neil Young's annual Bridge School Benefit show. The two-day concert will be held at Mountain View, Calif.'s Shoreline Amphitheatre on Oct. 24 and 25. All the...
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Chris Martin On Simpsons

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) July 27, 2009 3:12 pm
Coldplay's Chris Martin has signed on to appear on an upcoming episode of The Simpsons. Homer Simpson wins the lottery and hires Coldplay to play a special birthday concert for Bart in the episode. It's not yet known when the episode will air. "When Bart goes to the bathroom, Coldplay has to stop," executive producer Al Jean told...
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Noel Gallagher: Doing Drugs Is "Beautiful"

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) July 6, 2009 10:24 am
Oasis singer/guitarist Noel Gallagher says he thinks Chris Martin is an "idiot" because the Coldplay singer says he's never used drugs. Gallagher told Italian newspaper Corriere Della Sera he thinks Martin's life is poorer because he hasn't experimented with drugs. "I look at Chris Martin, who says he has never taken drugs in his...
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Stars Unite To Sing With Bruno

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By CHARTattack Staff April 2, 2009 11:55 am
We're pretty sure this isn't an elaborate April Fool's prank. And even if it is, it has more than us fooled. Borat and Ali G creator Sasha Baron Cohen apparently wrangled Bono and Chris Martin to collaborate on a song titled "Dove Of Peace" for his forthcoming movie Bruno: Delicious Journeys Through America For The Purpose Of Making...
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Jacko Likes Harry Potter Actors

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) March 24, 2009 1:17 pm
Michael Jackson has invited Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint — the stars of the Harry Potter films — to his series of sold-out comeback shows in London, England this summer. Jackson is set to play 50 shows at London's O2 Arena. He's reported to have extended all-access passes for July 8's opening night to the 19-year-old Radcliffe...
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Chris Martin Laughs At Bono's Insult

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) March 4, 2009 1:20 pm
Coldplay singer Chris Martin says he still respects Bono even though the U2 singer called him a "wanker" last week. Bono threw the verbal barb at Martin when U2 appeared on BBC Radio 1 DJ Jo Whiley's show. When Bono was asked to apologize, he called Martin "a completely dysfunctional character and a cretin." "I always...
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U2 Play Rooftop, Bono Disses Martin

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By Jason MacNeil (CHARTattack) February 27, 2009 4:11 pm
U2 performed a "surprise" rooftop concert on the BBC Broadcasting House on London, England's Regent Street today (Friday) to promote the March 3 release of No Line On The Horizon. The concert, which started around 7 p.m. local time and was streamed online through various websites, began with the new record's first single, "Get On...
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Coldplay Kick Martin Out Of Studio

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By CHARTattack Staff February 5, 2009 2:34 pm
Does Coldplay need Chris Martin? His bandmates (can you name any of them?) apparently didn't think so when they recently recorded new material with producer Brian Eno in their London, England studio. "Chris has been banned from the studio for these first two weeks," studio mole Roadie #42 wrote on Coldplay's website on Wednesday....
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Coldplay Break Up... Again And Again

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By Steve McLean (CHARTattack) December 17, 2008 11:20 am
Coldplay frontman Chris Martin recently backtracked on an earlier comment that his group would retire after next year, but they may break up before they have a chance to retire. Wait, they just broke up. Maybe. Don't worry, they'll be back together again by the time you finish reading this article. The last time Martin, guitarist Jonny Buckland...
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Coldplay's Time May Be Running Out

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By CHARTattack Staff November 19, 2008 2:13 pm
By the time athletes are playing in the cold at the winter Olympics in Vancouver in two years, Coldplay may not be a band. The British group's singer, Chris Martin, may not be eligible to collect a pension until he's 65, but he's the latest musician to ponder an early retirement. "I'm 31 now and I don't think bands should keep going past...
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Coldplay Would Open For Oasis

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By CHARTattack Staff November 17, 2008 1:15 pm
Coldplay would be happy to open for Oasis or reformed '90s British boy band, Take That. That tidbit was one of the things revealed by frontman Chris Martin in an interview on the Coldplay website on Friday. Martin hinted that Coldplay are working on a major U.K. headlining concert for next year, but says they'd also consider doing something...
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Chris Martin: Less Shit, More Nickelback

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By Steve McLean (CHARTattack) October 2, 2008 11:35 am
Coldplay leader Chris Martin may find lots of people who disagree, but he told Absolute Radio (formerly Virgin Radio) DJ Christian O'Connell that his band are "less shit than they used to be." Martin feels that Coldplay concerts are better now than ever, and said they've "turned from a Mars Bar into a king-sized Mars Bar."...
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Good Demons On His Shoulders...

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Photographer: 
Richard Beland
Venue: 
Molson Amphitheatre
City: 
Toronto
Date: 
June 16, 2003

Chris Martin Attacks!

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By CHARTattack Staff January 18, 2008 5:30 pm
Coldplay singer Chris Martin attacked a photographer as he left New York City's Mount Sinai Hospital with his actress wife Gwyneth Paltrow on Monday. Martin pushed the photographer to the ground and took his camera while yelling "Have some respect!" before trying to get away in an SUV. The incident was captured by a TMZ.com camera man...
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Chris Martin Let Loose From New Nelly Furtado Album

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By Steve McLean (CHARTattack) May 10, 2006 6:30 pm
Coldplay singer Chris Martin won't be lending his vocals to Nelly Furtado's forthcoming album after all. Martin, Furtado and producer Timbaland co-wrote the song "All Good Things," and Gwyneth Paltrow's husband sang on the version that was played for journalists previewing Furtado's Loose album earlier this year. "It was pretty...
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