Will Champion
Will Champion
William "Will" Championis an English musician and multi-instrumentalist, best known as the drummer and backing vocalist of the alternative rock band Coldplay...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionDrummer
Date of Birth31 July 1978
CitySouthampton, England
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Stocks are stuck in a hiatus between the performance of corporate profits and the hoped-for economic recovery.
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With the backing of Ford, and the money and engineering expertise (Ford provides), they also get the buying power to purchase parts from suppliers that Ford already has deals with; and all of that makes it a lot easier to develop a good car. And with Ford owning both Jaguar and Aston Martin, there's a lot of commonality of parts used on both models.
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The redesigned Honda Civic is a major improvement over the previous generation. The 2006 Civic is refined and economical, with fairly nimble handling and relatively comfortable ride.
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This was a great high school baseball game. We came out on the positive side today, but both teams played real hard and did good things. It was just an exciting high school baseball game.
call cars later less model reliable year
When cars are launched, we see the first year of a redesigned model as less reliable than later years. First-year blues, we call it.
progress seems
The progress that some of the manufacturers have been making seems to have stalled.
trying four great-music
Coldplay are just four friends trying to make great music.
not-good-enough stuff i-can
I can't do all that riddly diddly stuff. I'm not good enough. It's all about not playing.
melancholy
A lot of the time there is a lot of melancholy in the lyrics.
writing levels accepting
When you write something it has to hit the level that you accept as being good.
mad trying the-end-of-the-day
At the end of the day, we're just trying to prevent each other from going mad.
english-musician people played weeks
Two weeks later, we played our first concert and had 100 people there. It was pretty cool.
critical english-musician music
We're also passionate about music and very critical about the music that we listen to.
english-musician january played time
The first time we all played as a band, I think it was in January 1998, in Jonny's bedroom.