The Turn Of The Millennium: Things That Are Turning The Big 20

From Pectoralz To Coldplay

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By 1996, Chris Martin and Jonny Buckland first met during their orientation week at University College London. The pair spent the rest of the school year planning a band and Guy Berryman, a classmate of Martin and Buckland later joined the group in 1997- first calling themselves Pectoralz.

The band’s lineup would be complete when Will Champion joined to play the drums. In 1998, the band released 500 copies of the Safety EP. Only 50 copies remained for sale to the public, but Coldplay would sign with the independent label Fierce Panda by the end of the year.