Will Champion
Will Champion
William "Will" Championis an English musician and multi-instrumentalist, best known as the drummer and backing vocalist of the alternative rock band Coldplay...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionDrummer
Date of Birth31 July 1978
CitySouthampton, England
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Well, the stuff on the album we are a hundred per cent sure that we'll never get sick of because that was a very careful selection process.
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Stocks are stuck in a hiatus between the performance of corporate profits and the hoped-for economic recovery.
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You can make probably 50 percent difference in your gas mileage just by how you drive.
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It's an unrealistic sales and marketing tool that they are actually using. They are saying you're going to get 35 miles per gallon and you're really only going to get 21.
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You don't really need to forego practicality to have sports car performance.
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I don't think people get the full perspective of how in-depth we go into cars from the small amount of press that we get. We try to allay some of the fears that people have. Our No. 1 customer is the consumer. We try to get them the best information we can get so they can make the best decision on what they're buying.
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So, if we're happy playing the songs we have written, for as long as we can, then that is sort of the proof that they're good songs as well.
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A lot of times when we play in countries where English isn't the first language we get accused of being melancholy and miserable.
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It is worrying, but we feel as though our first album is a representation of our musical career of the first years up to this point.
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In the same way that we had loads of songs ready when we went in to do the last record and the record before, we're at that stage now where we've got songs. I think they will need a lot of work, we need to learn how to play them. We've learnt from mistakes on the last record in terms of the idea that it's most important for us to play the songs together and to have them as live as possible.
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We're trying to find somewhere we can set up and work. In all these years we haven't got a HQ, our own studio or anything like that. We want somewhere that we can sort of hole up and see what happens.
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The first time we all played as a band, I think it was in January 1998, in Jonny's bedroom.
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We're also passionate about music and very critical about the music that we listen to.
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Two weeks later, we played our first concert and had 100 people there. It was pretty cool.