![]() What a relief! That was a real, “okay this is going somewhere.” I think it even came out in one take and then we put our stuff on it - Jonny played his amazing riff - and it was done. Some things just come fully formed – and it was just a perfect, perfect song. You know how some songs take years as they’re shredded and pulled apart, overwrought and thrown out and then brought back. Guy Berryman : Coming back from a weekend when I went back to London and Chris stayed in Liverpool, we came back Monday morning and he said, “Come listen to this, I’ve just written a song.” And it was “The Scientist.” And I thought, “We’re going to be playing this for a long time.” It came out fully formed. I’m not saying we haven’t had moments like that since then, but I think I will always be surprised that we managed to make that album being the age we were. That just felt like a very magical period of time. It wasn’t even the main recording studio in that complex, so I feel it really represented us capturing lots of ideas… sometimes you can get stuck in a cycle when you’re recording of spending weeks on end in big, fancy recording studios with nice lunches and so forth. Will Champion : We recorded a lot of that album in a very small room in a not particularly fancy recording studio in Liverpool. Is there a scene you vividly remember, when something clicked, or didn’t, that stayed with you? A feeling of “We’ve done something here.” And that’s when I felt like, “This album is going to be different from the first album, and I think it’s going to be okay.” 11th happened, and the song “Politik” came through a few days after that – and I went to demo that and called the rest of the band in. ![]() And there were lots of other songs that didn’t end up making the cut. Was there a moment early on when you knew that A Rush was going to be a departure from your debut?Ĭhris Martin : A couple of songs we had been playing on tour for Parachutes – “In My Place,” “Amsterdam” and “God Put a Smile Upon Your Face.” So we knew about half of it. (Check out the anniversary 4K upgrade of “The Scientist” video below.) The hothouse environment produced more than three dozen songs, with some of the most memorable arriving past the original planned release date.īillboard caught up with the group, as well as Nelson and the band’s Parlophone Records A&R rep (Miles Leonard) to find out what their frame of mind was at the time, what song helped kickstart the sessions and how changing up their recording style helped light the fire that continues to burn 20 years later. 51 - was mostly recorded in a tiny room in the legendary Liverpool studio Parr Street. ![]() ![]() 2002 and has sold 17 million copies worldwide to date - Parachutes topped out at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 albums chart in Sept. 11-inspired “Politik” - continue to be reliable staples of the band’s live show. In fact, the album they came up with, 2002’s A Rush of Blood to the Head, was such a creative triumph that to this day some of its most beloved tracks - “In My Place,” “The Scientist,” “Clocks,” “God Put a Smile Upon Your Face,” “Green Eyes” and the moving, Sept. Madonna Celebrates Her Dad 'And All the Dads' With Inclusive Father's Day Message ![]()
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