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___MASK40___ " ___MASK66___ " Champion ( born 31 July 1978 ) is a British musician and multi - instrumentalist . He is the drummer and backing vocalist for the alternative rock band Coldplay . University College ___MASK52___ ( UCL ) is a public research university in ___MASK52___ , England , and a constituent college of the federal University of ___MASK52___ . It is the largest postgraduate institution in the UK by enrollment and is regarded as one of the world ' s leading multidisciplinary research universities . Established in 1826 as ___MASK52___ University by founders inspired by the radical ideas of ___MASK27___ Bentham , UCL was the first university institution to be established in ___MASK52___ , and the first in England to be entirely secular and to admit students regardless of their religion . UCL also makes the contested claims of being the third - oldest university in England and the first to admit women . In 1836 UCL became one of the two founding colleges of the University of ___MASK52___ , which was granted a royal charter in the same year . It has grown through mergers , including with the Institute of Neurology ( in 1997 ), the Royal Free Hospital Medical School ( in 1998 ), the Eastman Dental Institute ( in 1999 ), the School of Slavonic and East European Studies ( in 1999 ), the School of Pharmacy ( in 2012 ) and the Institute of Education ( in 2014 ). UCL has its main campus in the Bloomsbury area of central ___MASK52___ , with a number of institutes and teaching hospitals elsewhere in central ___MASK52___ and a satellite campus in Doha , Qatar . UCL is organised into 11 constituent faculties , within which there are over 100 departments , institutes and research centres . UCL operates several culturally significant museums and manages collections in a wide range of fields , including the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology and the Grant Museum of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy , and administers the annual Orwell Prize in political writing . In 2015 / 16 , UCL had around 38 , 300 students and 12 , 000 staff ( including around 7 , 100 academic staff and 840 professors ) and had a total income of £ 1 . 36 billion , of which £ 530 million was from research grants and contracts . UCL ranks highly in national and international league tables and its graduates rank among the most employable in the world . UCL alumni include the " Father of the Nation " of each of ___MASK71___ , Kenya and Mauritius , the founders of Ghana , modern Japan and Nigeria , the inventor of the telephone , and one of the co - discoverers of the structure of DNA . UCL academics discovered five of the naturally occurring noble gases , co - discovered hormones , invented the vacuum tube , and made several foundational advances in modern statistics . There are at least 29 Nobel Prize winners and 3 Fields medalists amongst UCL ' s alumni and current and former staff . UCL is a member of numerous academic organisations , including the ___MASK17___ Group , and is part of UCL Partners , the world ' s largest academic health science centre , and the ' golden triangle ' of research - intensive English universities . ___MASK86___ Mark `` ___MASK34___ '' Buckland ( born 11 September 1977 ) is an English musician and multi - instrumentalist , best known as the lead guitarist and co - founder of the band Coldplay . ___MASK96___ ___MASK10___ Berryman ( born 12 April 1978 ) is a Scottish musician , multi - instrumentalist and producer . He is the bass guitarist for the bands Coldplay and Apparatjik . Though Berryman is left - handed , he plays the bass right - handed . Coldplay ___MASK59___ a British rock band formed in 1996 by lead vocalist and keyboardist ___MASK76___ Martin and lead guitarist Jonny Buckland at University College London ( UCL ). After they formed under the name Pectoralz , Guy Berryman joined the group as bassist and they changed their name to Starfish . Will Champion joined as drummer and backing vocalist , completing the performing line - up . Creative Director Phil Harvey is often referred to as the official fifth member by the band . The band renamed themselves " Coldplay " in 1998 , before recording and releasing three EPs : " Safety " in 1998 , " Brothers & Sisters " as a single in 1999 , and " The Blue Room " in the same year . " The Blue Room " was their first release on a major label , after signing to Parlophone . Parlophone Limited ( also known as Parlophone Records ) is a ___MASK79___ - British record label that was founded in Germany in 1896 by the ___MASK18___ Lindström Company as Parlophon . The British branch of the company was formed in 1923 as The Parlophone Co . Ltd ., which developed a reputation in the 1920s as a leading jazz record label . In 1926 , the Columbia Graphophone Company acquired Parlophone ' s business , name and releases . Columbia Graphophone later merged with the Gramophone Company in 1931 to become Electric & Musical Industries Limited ( EMI ). ___MASK51___ Martin joined EMI in 1950 as assistant label manager , taking over as manager in 1955 . Martin produced and released a mix of product including comedy recordings of the Goons , the pianist Mrs Mills , and teen idol Adam Faith . ___MASK77___ Anthony ___MASK97___ " Chris " Martin ( born 2 March 1977 ) is a British singer , songwriter , record producer , and multi - instrumentalist . He is the co - founder and lead singer of the British alternative rock band Coldplay . Born in Whitestone , near Exeter in Devon , Martin went to University College London where he formed a rock band with fellow musician Jonny Buckland in 1996 called Pectoralz , which was eventually renamed Coldplay in 1998 .