[00:06.25]To pursue a career in music
[00:09.21]Chris realized that he would have to move to London
[00:11.83]So in 1996, he enrolled at University College London and studied history
[00:17.55]That's where he met future band members
[00:19.95]Will, John and Guy
[00:23.13]Most of our friends, people said (?)
[00:26.24]Same mates, same mates they always said
[00:27.78]Yeah... [laughters]
[00:34.24]I don't think it's all uncommon
[00:35.86]For bands to originate at school
[00:38.16]Because like America and Great Britain alike
[00:41.50]This happens all the time
[00:43.95]Because I think especially a university
[00:46.53]Because for the first time
[00:48.49]You're completely surrounded by people
[00:50.71]The alike minded, their searching for similar things
[00:55.08]You know, you've got other talent and musicians around you
[00:58.34]But yet you're completely secured in the face
[01:00.62]In a sense that you're on campus or whatever
[01:04.55]You've got some source of support from family
[01:07.07]But yet you're on your own for the first time
[01:10.55]The four of them were all housed in the same building
[01:12.70]Although they were studying very different subject
[01:15.46]They all shared a passion for music
[01:18.16]And London gave them the perfect playing ground
[01:20.79]To see what other bands were out there
[01:22.94]Whenever possible
[01:24.12]They were going to gigs
[01:25.51]I can understand why Chris Martin went to London to form the band
[01:29.03]Because (?) companies are there, record companies are there
[01:32.94]All the big bands play there
[01:35.17]You know, if you wanna see any band that you like
[01:39.11]It's always better to go off and see it in London
[01:41.31]Because no in doubt that they'll always be on tour
[01:44.85]They were always gonna threw this
[01:46.19]It was always a good idea to go out there
[01:48.07]Plus, the fact you got people living there
[01:49.55]You wanna be in bands and wanna make it big
[02:02.25]London's like this perfect setting
[02:04.84]For the music industry to really, you know, explode
[02:08.37]Because you've got such a diversity, you know
[02:12.80]Diversity of culture
[02:14.17]It's like the culture of center for the world, you know
[02:16.64]There's so much going on
[02:18.33]If you wanna go to Reggae gate, you go to Reggae gate
[02:21.68]If you wanna go to like a guitar base gate
[02:23.72]You go to that
[02:24.86]You can go to whatever kind of music you wanna go to
[02:32.86]London's a great place for music
[02:35.48]Probably the capital city of music
[02:36.90]No matter what style that you're into
[02:39.11]Be Punk, Goth, Indie, Rock
[02:41.26]There's always clubs and places to play
[02:43.97]There's all those venues and market, the stores, and the (?)
[02:47.90]Also lots of pubs, have nice bands playing
[02:51.41]It's at these where you can meet people
[02:53.72]Or often into forming bands as well
[02:55.65]When they were not studying
[02:57.71]They would go to watch bands
[02:59.78]Guy and John would hang out in Chris's room
[03:02.23]And together they would write songs
[03:04.46]A lot of the material that would end up on the band's first album
[03:07.35]Came together here
[03:09.54]They wrote hundreds of songs
[03:10.98]Before finally picking with tracks
[03:12.70]Which would become world-wide hits
[03:16.16]To sit down with a group of peple, like
[03:17.49]If you intended to go out and, like
[03:20.39]Join a band and have a successful career within that band
[03:25.24]I mean, starting from a point where you'll just sort of sit down
[03:29.25]And have a jam with someone
[03:30.73]I think it's more than important, it's vital
[03:34.80]Which is why so many bands successful that come out of university
[03:37.89]Because they've had the opportunity in a time
[03:42.57]To just sit down together, relax, have a smoke, you know
[03:46.99]Just sit and jam
[03:48.21]And just pick each other's brains
[03:49.69]And I think when you do that
[03:51.65]And you get yourself in that sort of situation
[03:54.49]The more you just sort of work with it and it just evolves