After touring in support of their debut album,
Parachutes,
Coldplay was personally and professionally exhausted. Frontman
Chris Martin insisted he was dry; by the time they closed their European tour in summer 2001, he hadn't written a song in months. The U.K. music press immediately pounced on the idea of
Coldplay calling it quits, but somewhere lurked the beauty of "In My Place." The spirit and soul of this ballad allowed
Coldplay to pull it together to make a second album.
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