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Yellow the hit single from Coldplay News - 01/16/01 Coldplay nomination for Brit Award:Coldplay's Parachutes is up for Best British Album.

British R&B star Craig David and "Yellow" rockers Coldplay topped the list of Brit Award contenders announced Monday (January 15), with four and three nominations, respectively. The U.K. equivalent of the Grammy Awards, the Brit Awards — including an Outstanding Contribution to Music honor for U2 — will be presented in a London ceremony on February 26.

YELLOW
Recorded at Parr St. Studios,
Liverpool, Feb-Mar 2000. Produced by Ken Nelson and Coldplay.
Released on June 26th, 2000. Highest UK Chart position: 4

The final recording session for Parachutes was dominated by the feeling of panic. Yellow had already been earmarked as an early summer single anfd the hope was that the album would be ready for release at around the same time. Any delays in completion would result in its release date being pushed back to October to co-incide with the third single. This would have been hugely disadvantageous. Everyone suspected that Yellow was a hit and therefore the perfect lead-in single for the album. Noone wanted to see an autumn release.

So the pressure was on. Deadlines were so tight that originally the band had to forfeit traveling to New York to mix Yellow so that they could remain behind in Liverpool finishing off the album. However when the initial mix came back, the band was unimpressed. They insisted on flying out to oversee mixing themselves. This left them even less time to work on the three or four album tracks that still remained unfinished. Determination and drive power certain artiats like no other. Yellow was mixed and the album was completed, the rest is history. www.coldplay.com

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