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Coldplayer
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English
Etymology
From en w:Coldplay er occupation.
Noun
A member of the British rock band Coldplay.
en The Guide The Guardian November 18–24 2000 12 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/259632546/ Coldplay’s new album is called Parachutes. Most British rock bands now are happy to be a lot of people’s third favourite band. They have a broad, unexclusive appeal. Your mum quite likes that [Doris Eaton] Travis song — you know, the one about singing in the rain. Your dad likes the Coldplayers’ album.
en w:Marc Spitz Backstage Pass: Coldplay’s singer has “Yellow” fever; Faithless Fight Dido-sploitation Spin 17 10 October 2001 38 The fact that the other Coldplayers refuse to look at him [Chris Martin] (unless it’s to smirk derisively) while performing has been cited as evidence of a feud (although our theory is that they’re simply shoe-gazing).
en w:Josh Tyrangiel Solid Music For Softies: Coldplay makes wuss rock—excellent wuss rock Time https://archive.org/details/time-2002-12-30/Time%202002-09-02/page/n82/mode/1up 160 10 2 September 2002 COLDPLAYERS: [Chris] Martin, front, is a hopeful romantic
en Gene Triplett Soothing melodies preferred The Daily Oklahoman Oklahoma City, Okla. 31 January 2003 1-B https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/455285261/ The boyish Canadian crooner [Ron Sexsmith] is Coldplay’s opening act on this leg of their tour, and he’s been crafting the same kind of reflective and bittersweet ballads as main Coldplayer Chris Martin since 1985 — but with a lot less success.
en w:Edna Gundersen Coldplay follows in path of performers with passion w:Tulsa World 4 February 2003 D 4 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/909067357/ The band managed to leave the pressures of global fame outside the Liverpool studio while “Rush of Blood” was rushed to completion in late 2001. The Coldplayers felt confident their sophomore effort would please fans — until they got an earful of vintage George Harrison. During a brief trip to Los Angeles, the band stopped by Capitol Records and heard “Isn’t It a Pity” from Harrison’s “All Things Must Pass.” “That knocked my head off,” [Chris] Martin says. “On the plane on the way back to England, I realized we didn’t have a single song as good as that.”
en w:Evelyn McDonnell Coldplay’s ‘X&Y’ equals sounds of romance The Miami Herald 5 June 2005 8M https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/652648430/ The Coldplayers are humanists in a scientific world, crooners in a sea of techno.
en The Miami Herald 102nd year 362 11 September 2005 1A https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/652974614/ COLDPLAYER, SELF-HATER / CHRIS MARTIN THRIVES ON POST-ADOLESCENT ANGST — BUT WITH A WORLD VIEW
en Brian McGovern Spin it round, flip it and reverse it: Are You keen on Keane and Co.? w:The Daily Illini https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/757449854/ 19 14 September 2006 Ballads died with hair-rock, and even though our post-9/11 world loves stupefying sentimentality, it’s time for us to realize that we need to dump the Coldplayers the way we dumped rock rap and boy bands. We need dance music! https://web.archive.org/web/20230217102424/https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/757449854/ 17 February 2023
en Cary Darling; Christopher Kelly 8 for ’08: Usher croons odes to broccoli, and would-be Jedis get their fight on Star-Telegram 10 January 2008 8E https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/651819618/ According to news reports, Chris Martin, main Coldplayer and husband to Gwyneth Paltrow, has been seeing a hypnotist to help relieve the “stress of song writing.”
en The ‘A’ List: Celebrity news and sightings w:The Charlotte Observer 139 260 16 September 2008 2A https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/632589819/ Coldplayer heats up / Chris Martin of Coldplay performs during the “Viva La Vida” Tour at the O2 World Arena on Monday in Berlin, Germany.