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Their next release, X&Y, the best-selling album worldwide in 2005, was met with mostly positive reviews upon its release, though some critics felt that it was inferior to its predecessor. The band's second album, A Rush of Blood to the Head (2002), was released to critical acclaim and won multiple awards, including NME's Album of the Year and spawned the singles " Clocks" and " The Scientist". They achieved worldwide recognition with the release of the single " Yellow" in 2000, followed by their debut album released in the same year, Parachutes, which received a Brit Award for British Album of the Year, a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album, as well as a Mercury Prize nomination. The Blue Room was their first release on a major label, after signing to Parlophone. independently in 1998 and The Blue Room E.P. The band began playing music together from 1996 to 1998 and renamed themselves "Coldplay" later that year, before recording and releasing two extended plays: Safety E.P.
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Creative director Phil Harvey is often mentioned as their fifth member.
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Will Champion joined as a drummer, backing vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist, completing the line-up. After they formed under the name Pectoralz, Guy Berryman joined the group as a bassist and they changed their name to Starfish. Coldplay are a British rock band formed in 1996 by lead vocalist and pianist Chris Martin and lead guitarist Jonny Buckland at University College London (UCL).