The 4 members of multiplatinum-selling British rock band Coldplay are being sued by former supervisor Dave Holmes, in line with authorized paperwork lately filed within the U.Okay.
A rep for Coldplay confirms to Variety that the band and Holmes quietly parted methods 12 months in the past after working collectively for 22 years — almost the group’s total skilled profession. They now proceed to be managed by the group of Phil Harvey, Mandi Frost and Arlene Moon, who labored with them and Holmes for a few years.
The rep declined additional remark, though sources inform Variety the lawsuit is a contractual dispute. Further info was not instantly accessible, because the authorized paperwork had not been made public on the time of this text’s publication.
The band re-upped its cope with Warner Music’s Parlophone (within the U.Okay.) and Atlantic (U.S.) labels, in addition to Wasserman Agency, in 2021, shortly earlier than the discharge of their most up-to-date studio album, the Max Martin-produced “Music of the Spheres.” The group has bought over 100 million albums worldwide and received 7 Grammy Awards since its debut, “Parachutes,” was launched in 2000.
The 4 members of Coldplay — frontman Chris Martin, guitarist Jonny Buckland, bassist Guy Berryman, drummer Will Champion — met as college students at University College of London and formally fashioned in 1997. Speaking to Variety in 2018 on the discharge of the Coldplay documentary “Headful of Dreams,” Holmes recalled giving his mom a duplicate of “Parachutes” in 2000. “I told her, ‘I just started working with this band, and they’re going to be as big as U2,’” he recalled. “I knew it. I just knew.”
Coldplay was initially signed to Parlophone U.Okay. in 1999 when the label was housed below EMI (Capitol was Coldplay’s former U.S. dwelling). Universal Music Group acquired EMI in 2012 and divested itself of Parlophone as a part of a situation imposed by the European Commission requiring that UMG dump a lot of imprints. WMG stepped in to buy the label and, with that acquisition, Coldplay joined the Atlantic roster, beginning with 2014’s “Ghost Stories.”