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For Coldplay's Chris Martin, songcraft means everything

By Joan Anderman
Globe Staff / June 7, 2005

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It's not U2, or Radiohead, that gets Chris Martin speed-talking about art and ambition. For the 28-year old frontman of the British rock band Coldplay, another name comes up repeatedly in the course of an hour -- the cultural figure who inspires in him the most impassioned philosophizing. (Full article: 1219 words)

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