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Coldplay's Yellow was named after a phone book
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The emotional depth of Coldplay's breakout hit 'Yellow' implies a deep, poetic connection to the color. In reality, Chris Martin was struggling to find a placeholder word for the chorus, looked around the studio, and saw a copy of the Yellow Pages phone directory. A massive cultural anthem was born from a chunky book used to find local plumbers.
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