SOUTH BANK I think we all know the story behind Coldplay’s Yellow but, in case you’ve forgotten, it seems that frontman Chris Martin was absent-mindedly looking out his window one afternoon when he saw something – the sun, a daffodil, Gwyneth Paltrow, nobody’s entirely sure – which made him stop and say to himself: “That’s yellow, that is.” And the effect this thing – whatever it was – had on the sensitive singer’s psyche was so profound that, some hours later, when drummer Will Champion came in from the garden and asked his bandmate why he was staring out the window, all the latter could do was shake his head and repeat, over and over again, these four words: “It was all yellow.” And Will ...
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