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Post by gai on Jan 3, 2015 18:41:56 GMT
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joiedevivre
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Post by joiedevivre on Jan 3, 2015 20:07:10 GMT
I sure don't but I love the picture! And the intro paragraph sounds very promising! Hopefully he's as happy as this paragraph implies....
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Post by comicforce on Jan 4, 2015 18:06:26 GMT
I Don't either. I could join the SUN thing, but I really don't want to, they are such a drivel rag.
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Post by Captain Crieff on Jan 4, 2015 18:47:20 GMT
There's a summary (or the whole thing, I don't know) on coldplaying. Yeah, don't join The Sun, it's DDD:
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Post by comicforce on Jan 4, 2015 20:53:36 GMT
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Post by gai on Jan 4, 2015 21:09:46 GMT
yeah, those are the quotes. i want to read the full article. will try the free sign up when i get a chance.
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Post by politik on Jan 4, 2015 23:46:10 GMT
Hmmm did Chris know he was talking to the The Sun?
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Post by comicforce on Jan 5, 2015 7:03:21 GMT
Hmmm good point. I do wonder if it isn't a completely pulled together 'interview' from a lot of his other comments recently.
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Post by joiedevivre on Jan 5, 2015 13:18:28 GMT
^That seems like exactly what it is.
But on a side note, I really like this quote:
"But I think Coldplay’s songs have a tension between them. You could hear them as sad or you could hear them as uplifting, depending on your mood."
That's exactly how I feel about their music and one of the reasons that I find it so unique, and much more complex and layered than much of the rest of the music I listen to.
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Post by gai on Jan 5, 2015 14:57:25 GMT
pretty sure it was an actual interview. most, if not all, quotes are new.
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Post by comicforce on Jan 5, 2015 17:53:07 GMT
Yeah I guess they are.
And Leann it's so true.. sometimes I get sad listening to some songs, other times the same songs make me happy.. Such a crazy good band.
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Post by gai on Jan 8, 2015 7:29:11 GMT
Coldplay singer on music, love, U2 and the year ahead
CHRIS Martin is in top form, giggling and joking about everything.
His marriage might have broken up this year and his short relationship with Jennifer Lawrence is up in the air — though they were reportedly spotted together on New Year’s Eve — but good things keep showing up in his life.
Angelina Jolie asked the Coldplay frontman to write a song for her new movie Unbroken and he happily obliged. The end result, Miracles, plays during the closing credits.
A few weeks before we met, Chris stood in for the injured Bono at a fundraising concert in Times Square — and he still seems to be on a high after his super-sub appearance.
He also can’t resist joking that Bono’s mishap, when he fell off his bike in Central Park in late November, was no “accident”.
Chris quips: “I don’t want to give the game away, but me and Bruce Springsteen may have pushed him off his bike.
I’m like ‘Jeez, how did all this happen?’
“I don’t want to say too much, but Bruce called me and said, ‘Listen, meet me in Central Park. I’ve been too long without a concert and I’ve got an idea’.”
He clearly had a ball fronting the most famous band in the world for a few songs and helping out a pal. But he tells me he was relieved that at the end he managed to get his old job back with Coldplay.
Chris says: “Bill Clinton was there and it was really a big deal to raise money for U2’s charity Red and they couldn’t cancel it because of Bono’s accident. So Bruce and I both sang two U2 songs and it was a total blast and I was happy to help out for the evening.”
His good spirits are infectious and he is looking forward to taking time off over the Christmas to spend time with his family in Los Angeles, a city with which he seems to be very much in love.
He says: “When I think about where I came from and where I am today, I am like, ‘Jeez, how did that happen?’ It’s miraculous. I mean look at this nose! It’s enormous!
“So many things have happened to me that I couldn’t possibly have made happen myself, whether it’s meeting the rest of the band, or meeting the mother of your children or being blessed with some musical talent, or getting to live in Los Angeles.
“I mean, the list is so endless that I couldn’t be anything but thankful and grateful and attribute it to something other than me.
“I come from a farming community in the west of England, where the very idea of going to America was a golden dream.
“There’s still a part of me every morning can’t believe that we are allowed to be there. There is always a sense of possibility.
“Of course it has its challenges and its ups and downs, but there is always an optimism that I find exciting.
“Maybe it’s because the sun shines in LA every day and you are surrounded by lots of other creative people, but I feel a great sense of, ‘OK, what can we make?’
“And it’s nice to be by the seaside. I feel very grateful.”
Chris is listening to a wide range of music at the moment and is a huge fan of up and coming Irish musician Hozier.
He says: “Because of the marvel of the internet, everything is available all the time, so you can find new stuff all the time. Hozier is really great, he’s wonderful. There’s a band called Disclosure that I really like and new bands coming up all the time. I love Sam Smith. I really love Azealia Banks.
“I am always discovering new old things. I just got into some Stevie Wonder records that I had not heard before. I am listening to a lot of Chopin. His music really makes me melt. I love listening to John Williams. I keep finding things that are not necessarily new to the world, just new to me.
“Music for me is a real catharsis and I think the fact that I can express myself allows me to enjoy the lightness of things. I do have happier music, but I think Coldplay’s songs have a tension between them. You could hear them as sad or you could hear them as uplifting, depending on your mood.
“Sometimes when a song comes through that’s really just happy or sad, the rest of the band doesn’t accept it, because they like a certain tension.
“It’s hard to perfect a happy song. Pharrell managed it. Stevie Wonder managed it. Bill Withers managed it. I haven’t managed it yet.”
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Post by prissieb on Jan 8, 2015 15:07:08 GMT
Thank you, gai!
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Post by politik on Jan 8, 2015 15:58:54 GMT
It's really nice to hear he's enjoying his time in LA and not being miserable away from home.
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Post by comicforce on Jan 9, 2015 7:21:13 GMT
Yes it is. I'm glad he loves LA. It makes it easier to think of him over there.. I loved this.. The seaside is SUCH an English thing to say.. Thanks again gai for finding it.
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