Ladies and gentlemen...
Rock 'n' roll.
The wave of plaintive British folk rock bands
washed up on America's shores in 2000.
The London quartet Coldplay
made the biggest critical splash of all.
Not bad for a group of early 20-somethings
who first started playing together
in their dorm room just two years ago.
We heard that you requested Coldplay.
- Yeah, I'd love to hear them. - Why? They're rubbish.
What brought you together?
We went to the Backstreet Boys auditions, got turned down.
Was talking about it in the bar afterwards,
said, "Why don't we do some sort of guitar thing?"
After their hit "Yellow", Coldplay almost broke up.
Why would they do something like that?
We came to America for, what, two weeks or so,
thinking that we'd done most of the record back home,
and then we went home and listened to it on a train to Liverpool,
and it sounded rubbish.
We wanted to make the most passionate, moving, melodic,
uplifting and sad record of all time, you know.
One of the first rock bands to ever make me cry.
- I love Coldplay. - They take musical risks,
but maintain their integrity and their sound.
How about those guys from Coldplay?
Ladies and gentlemen, the greatest band in the world. Coldplay.
The song "The Scientist" was really the turning point for our record,
and we recorded it in about two days.
It really saved our bacon.
Best Group Video goes to...
Coldplay, "The Scientist"!
Thank you so much for giving us this, and we'll see you again, bye.
Life is short,
and you have to make the most desperate and passionate
and melodic and loud and quiet record possible, you know.
I hope you didn't slit your wrists to that one.
It is about not starting again
so much as breaking down what we built up before
and trying to build something different,
hopefully as good or better or worse in a good way.
That song is one of our favourites
because none of us are doing anything on it that we've ever done before.
The longer you go on, the harder it is to surprise yourself.
If your TV hasn't blown up, keep watching.
Ladies and gentlemen...
Rock 'n' roll.