Jonathan Mark Buckland was born on 11 September 1977 and is an English-born Welsh musician and songwriter best known as the lead guitarist and co-founder of the rock band Coldplay.
20 Facts About Jonny Buckland
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Jonny Buckland has a degree in astronomy and mathematics at University College London, where he formed Coldplay with Chris Martin, Guy Berryman and Will Champion.
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Jonny Buckland won seven Grammy Awards and nine Brit Awards as part of Coldplay.
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Jonathan Mark Jonny Buckland was born on 11 September 1977 in Islington, London, England, being the second child of high school teacher John Jonny Buckland and his wife Joy.
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Jonny Buckland attended Ysgol y Waun primary school, while secondary education was held at Alun School, learning guitar notes and chords in the former and taking A-level music lessons on the latter.
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Jonny Buckland listened to numerous Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton records owned by his parents during his childhood, being encouraged to attain further experience on the guitar by his brother Tim, who introduced him to My Bloody Valentine, Sonic Youth, the Stone Roses, George Harrison, U2 and other similar artists.
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Jonny Buckland joined the Scouts when he was 11 years old and mentioned still liking the uniform in 2008.
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Jonny Buckland then added that, one night when his friends were playing on a field, they had an encounter with an angry sheep which ran over and attacked him multiple times.
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Jonny Buckland's education was continued at University College London, where he attained a 2:1 degree in astronomy and mathematics and formed Coldplay with Chris Martin, Guy Berryman and Will Champion.
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Jonny Buckland was responsible for co-founding the band along with Martin; they met each other during UCL's orientation week in 1996.
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In Coldplay, Jonny Buckland is usually regarded as quiet, friendly, unassuming and "the wise owl" of the group.
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Jonny Buckland guest starred on Ian McCulloch's third album, Slideling, by playing guitar in the songs "Sliding" and "Arthur".
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Jonny Buckland is known to support food and wine magazine Noble Rot and became an investor of their namesake restaurants.
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Jonny Buckland usually uses a Fender 72' Telecaster Thinline, which is known to have a fuller sound compared to the usual models.
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Jonny Buckland is occasionally seen with Jazzmaster, Jaguar and Gibson ES-335 guitars as well; the latter was used when Coldplay recorded A Rush of Blood to the Head.
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Jonny Buckland's pedals include Fulltone OCD, which is used for boost; the Electro-Harmonix Micro POG, Pro Co RAT and Ibanez TS9 Tube Screamer, which are combined for distortion; the BOSS RV-3 for reverb; and BOSS TR-2 for tremolo.
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Jonny Buckland makes extensive use of the Line 6 DL4 pedal, while a MXR Phase 90 model can be heard in "Fix You".
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Jonny Buckland purchased the first of them for $3.4 million in 2008, while the second was bought for $4.5 million in 2016.
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Jonny Buckland is godfather to Martin's daughter Apple along with English actor Simon Pegg.
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Jonny Buckland's great-grandfather formed a band named Big Buckland's Dance Orchestra between the late 1910s and early 1920s, a photograph of them was used as an inspiration for the album cover and vintage aesthetics seen on Everyday Life.