Coldplay set the direction of mainstream rock

26 June 2000: Number 47 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of rock musicWith the end of Britpop, British music struggled to define itself. Domestic festival crowds were in thrall to the nice-guy rock of Travis, while Radiohead were taking over the international scene with the sour, gnashing rock of OK Computer. But it was a new band – initially compared to both – who would go on to colour the turn of the millennium. Was it something to do with how vulnerable a rain-soaked Chr...

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