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UK band formed in London in 1997 by vocalist Chris Martin (1977- ), guitarist Jonny Buckland (1977- ), bassist Guy Berryman (1978- ) and drummer Will Champion (1978- ), who have achieved huge international success with their anthemic, if not particularly adventurous, pop-rock. Their fifth album Mylo Xytolo (2011), which introduced a more bombastic, pop-based sound, is a concept album set on the planet Silencia, where a dictator attempts to take sound and colour away from the population. The title character rebels. On their second concept album, Music of the Spheres (2021), which furthers the move towards synth-pop, each track corresponds to a planet or Star in the fictional system The Spheres. The concept is continued in Moon Music (2024). [CWa]
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Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
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