Coldplay are huge – the stadium-level few bands with a guitarist in reach. When they emerged on radio with the Brothers & Sisters single and The Blue Room EP in 1999 they were undoubtedly a rock band. But somewhere along their huge trajectory, they changed, for Bono at least.
In a new eight-episode BBC radio series interview, The Genius Of Coldplay, the U2 frontman revealed that he doesn't think they're a rock band at all, and shouldn't be treated like one.
