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The successful British band Coldplay returns with the album “Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends” - but where singer Chris Martin’s voice sang of love and happiness in the past, it is now about life and death. Drummer Will Champion explains in the interview with beQueen why this has to be.

Will Champion, the new Coldplay album is called “Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends.” How did you come to this name?
Will Champion: We have only baptized the album “Viva la Vida”, because it is a tribute to life itself. At this time we were in Mexico City, where we visited Frida Kahlo’s house and encountered this quote. We love Kahlo’s art and were speechless in the face of the energy of the house, where the magnificent, expressive colors give a very special atmosphere. At this time we realized that we were too monotonous. We wanted to go away from black and white towards to colour. [Read more]

Coldplay is starting to get too good at its job, report Paste Magazine. At the writing session for Viva La Vida, Chris Martin and Co. got a little overzealous, writing too much to fit on one album. The tracks that were left off Viva La Vida might make an appearance as another album as soon as next year.

Viva La Vida was released in June and produced by Brian Eno. The next album is widely rumored to be almost completed because of all the extra material from that recording session. The speculation originally said a new Coldplay album might come out before the end of the year, but a 2009 release looks more likely now. [Read more]

Five million reasons to smile: Jonny Buckland, Chris Martin

With EMI losing Paul McCartney, Radiohead and The Rolling Stones in quick succession, and with other acts on the label, such as Robbie Williams, threatening to go on strike, it wasn’t looking good for the famous imprint earlier this year.

Throw in the fact that EMI has been hoovered up by a private equity firm, and that a lot of the “music” people at the label had either jumped or been pushed, and there was speculation about its continuing existence.

Terra Firma (the new owner of EMI) had its first real test with the release of Coldplay’s Viva La Vida album two months ago. McCartney had left the label because he was dissatisfied with how it had marketed his last few albums. Williams was openly questioning if the downsized label could still “work” an album. Terra Firma’s other big signing, Sigur Rós, were looking on from the sidelines.

Could Terra Firma hack it in the music world? A lot would depend on how Viva La Vida was handled and how it performed. Launching a full price album into a market where the very concept of paying for music has become so debased was always going to be difficult. But, through a series of clever initiatives, the campaign behind Viva La Vida is now being hailed as one of the most successful of the last decade, and it will likely to pick up every PR/marketing/advertising award going at the end of the year.

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Here’s another new interview - this time for Special Zone by VMC. Thanks to fufunagentsmith for the upload…

And if you haven’t seen this MTV Interview before - there ya go!
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Chris Martin and Will Champion joinied the BBC 6 Music Studios to talk to Steve Lamacq about their album, ‘Viva La Vida’. This interview was broadcast on BBC 6 Music on Friday 13th June 2008.

And here’s another interview from Australia’s Herald Sun, where the band talk about their new look and artwork on the latest release Viva la Vida.
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One of my eBay co-workers sent this in to The Chatter last week. Amy is a huge fan of Coldplay and had the opportunity of meeting the drummer when the band performed recently in San Jose. Her excitement doubled when she learned about Coldplay’s eBay connection! Here’s what Amy (looking suitably thrilled next to Will Champion) wrote: [Read more]

Here’s another Coldplay interview, where they discuss their upcomming album and how they feel about it. And where they think they stand at right now. Thanks to MotionCityFan777 for the upload.

Coldplay recently played the Verizon Center in D.C. and is due to return again for another show on Halloween. While I know it’s not exactly “cool” to admit, I think Coldplay is pretty good. Coldplay’s stock in hip circles has plummeted considerably since Chris Martin’s nuptials to Gwyneth Paltrow. The same sort of thing happened to Dave Pirner of Soul Asylum when he was shacked up with Winona Ryder. Nonetheless, before and after Martin married Paltrow and started naming his kids after still life fruit and sea parting Charlton Heston roles, Coldplay was, and still is, a solid group of musicians.
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Here’s a Coldplay interview from Japanese program Diago. Thanks dd6vcq

World Cafe, August 8, 2008 - One of the most successful and popular bands of the decade, Coldplay made a name for itself with a string of introspective pop hits.

But its new album marks a step in a different direction. With Viva La Vida, Coldplay expands its repertoire as Chris Martin’s distinctive falsetto coexists with greater orchestration and more varied pop and rock sounds.

Hear the interview with Coldplay here as it stops by WXPN’s World Cafe with David Dye.

[thanks pallavi]