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Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin once indicated that after 2002’s A Rush of Blood to the Head was released, the band might never put out another album. The brilliance that encompassed the 11-track disc put the English quartet on an international pedestal, with critics heralding the group as the next U2.

Martin has been busy since then. In December 2003, he married actress Gwyneth Paltrow. In April 2004, she gave birth to their first child, Apple Martin. With the addition of a family to his life, Martin took to writing again and began working on songs that would become this year’s Coldplay hit album, X&Y. The disc took Coldplay an eternity to create. The band recorded takes over and over again until it created an ideal disc. The highly anticipated album features tracks such as the “Clocks”-esque “Speed of Sound” and the first-heard-on-The-O.C. love anthem, “Fix You.”

Now the band — fronted by the energetic, piano-pounding and guitar-strumming Martin — is rounding out an American tour promoting X&Y, with the last show tomorrow night in Bristow, Va. After tonight, the band will head out of the country for shows in nations including Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and six shows back home in London. And to further drill home the fact that Coldplay is an international monster, every show outside the U.S. is sold out.

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