call my own. That was my form of rebellion". His education was continued at Kent College, Canterbury, where he spent his teenage years listening to acts like James Brown, Kool & the Gang and Pink Floyd. After graduating from high school, Berryman enrolled on a mechanical engineering degree at University College London, where he met Chris Martin, Jonny Buckland and Will Champion, eventually forming Coldplay. Unlike his bandmates, he did not finish the course. Career Coldplay Berryman was the third member to join the band in 1997. Their college friend Kris Foof described him as "a quiet young man who had been put in 'Paris Block', the less populated block of rooms in Ramsay Hall. The rest of the band had been placed in 'New York Block', but not Guy, he was the outsider that the insiders all knew about, namely from his stockpile of musical instruments in his room". Martin commented having a wrong impression of Berryman when they first met: "He's not as scary as he looks – he's a lot nicer. Guy's the dark member of the band. Everyone thinks he's moody, soft-spoken is better". Along with Buckland, they recorded numerous demos without a drummer and, by November of that year, the trio called themselves Big Fat Noises. He later dropped out his mechanical engineering degree and enrolled in a seven-year architecture program at The Bartlett, which was abandoned to focus on playing bass. While his bandmates continued their degrees, he paid his rent by working as a bartender in a local London pub. In the Coldplay: A Head Full of Dreams (2018) documentary, Berryman commented the promotion cycle for X&Y (2005) was a very turbulent period for the band, as they had frequent arguments, particularly between him and Martin: "I was probably much more opinionated back then, which was a huge pain in the ass for everyone, I don't know if I was trying to get away from myself or if I wasn't comfortable with myself, but I definitely had a drinking problem". When asked about Coldplay's creative process in an interview for The Howard Stern Show, they said while Buckland is usually more optimistic when either disapproving or giving his input on Martin's initial song ideas, Berryman is more critical, concluding that if he dislikes a track, "there's no point in ever playing it again". On the other hand, he was responsible for starting songs