Coldplay about writing Yellow

Then that chord, I started doing that. And I started thinking about Neil Young and I was like, stars! I was just messing around. This is really the very humble beginnings. For you. Then I tried like a, that's a normal chord shape. But it sounds different in this tuning. I don't even know what that chord is. So I was just doing that. Then I got the title from the Yellow Pages, which was about a 45 degree angle over there. They were all, I was looking for a word, which was like, yellow. As I remember, it was 1999. We had just been students and then after that we were cleaners a bit. We had never recorded out of London before. We'd never really recorded before, to be honest. We'd done one session a few months before in London, which hadn't gone so well. So we were going there as it was kind of a make or break session. I think we knew absolutely nothing about Rockville before we went there. And I mean, I remember so vividly when we turned up and we drove down, it was like a little unmade road and there was cows. And I sort of wondered what on earth we were doing there. So it was our first real dip into a proper recording studio and we'd heard that the Stone Roses had spent about two and a half years there or something like that, or maybe more. By the time we got to Rockfield, it was like, this is your chart. We'd been given kind of six months to get used to being signed and stuff. And then our label were like, look, you've got to kind of make it happen now. So it was very much like some sort of musical Hogwarts. You know, we were sent away to figure it out. We were recording a song called Shiver and we went outside to have like a breather and it was just so beautiful outside. All four of us were outside and Ken, and he was like, look up there, lads. Look at the stars. He literally said, look at the stars, which is the first line of that song. And it was really mind-blowing. We'd been in London for like five years, so we hadn't really seen anything beyond smog for a while. So that line was in my head and then I was thinking about how Neil Young sings the word stars like, stars, stars, like he does a sort of bend in it. So then I went back in to try and do this acoustic. So, normal tuning, that isn't it. So I had this song called Shiver, which is like this. Which is like our attempt at a Jeff Buckley song. And we were recording that. Anyway, I went back in to sit behind the control desk, mixing desk, waiting and something was wrong with the machine. So I was waiting and I saw, then that chord. So I did that. And I started to think about Neil Young and I was like, stars. I was just messing around. This is really the very humble beginnings. For you. And I tried like a, that's a normal chord shape. But it sounds different in this tuning. I don't even know what that chord is. I was just doing that. Then I got the title from the Yellow Pages, which was about 45 degree angle over there. They were all, I was looking for a word which was like, yellow. So then I thought, I like this. So then I went through, everyone else was watching football, I think. And I went and I said, guys, what do you think about this? And they were like, yes, that's okay. They weren't particularly interested. And I went into the bathroom in the living room area and then the chorus came out. And I showed them that and they were like, yeah, we like that. And that gave us our lives for, for the last 16 years. Is it about, I don't know, just someone awesome? Was it about someone specific? No, most of our songs are about someone or something awesome. Whether that's a person or a girl or a child or entity or a figurative way of speaking about the earth. We're always banging on about love and amazingness. And I think we always will. I think that session at Rockfield helped us kind of solidify who we were and what we were trying to do as a band. The sound of our first album really came from Rockfield Studios and that sort of back to basics mentality that was imposed upon us there. Well, good songs will always be written all over the place. But I think what is changing is that studios are going out of business all over the world because of the ease of which you can now record on computers and whatnot. And also there's not that many people willing to put a band of four kind of just post-teenagers in an expensive studio situation and let them stay there for a month and see what happens. Not that many record companies are taking risks like that.