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I’ve finally gotten around to making some grabbage of Viva La Vida iTunes ad. They’re in the gallery here and I’ll get around to making Violet Hill grabs when I find a decent copy of the music video. Enjoy!

Big thanks to Chavi for these scans of Coldplay French based media articles/clippings, which you can view here. Any translations would be gratefully received…

Thanks to Live4Coldplay for the scans/translation

Cover:
“The revolution according to Coldplay”
“The band that everyone likes but doesn’t admit”

Article
“Long live the revolution”
“In the eve of their return, Coldplay invited James McMahon to visit their secret headquarters. He found a band insecure about its past, but with a new and dashing musical manifesto (or something). The revolution of Viva la Vida is served hot.”

“Somewhere in the north of London, where Camden ends and Primrose Hill begins, in the middle of a nameless alley, there is an old bakery. It isnt used for years, at least for making bread. It isn’t the type of place where it is expected to be the cradle of one of the most discussed musical returns of the year.

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Taken from: Rock Star
Author: Steffen Rueth
Pages: 79-80-81-81-82-83
Date: June / July 2008

LIFE IS BEAUITFUL

Everyday gymnastics, family life and team spirit. These are the rules of life that Coldplay suggest to anyone who wants to preserve eternal youth and apply to the throne of rock. The fit band talks about the new album ‘Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends’.

When they met during university, in London, Chris Martin, Jonny Buckland, Guy Berryman and Will Champion simply wanted to make music. Something that, once they became Coldplay, was transformed into a form of full-time job. It is now almost ten years and thirty million records since then and no album, in 2008, is awaited with more anxiety than ‘Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends’, the ambitious fourth piece of work of Gwyneth Paltrow’s husband and his three companions, produced by Brian Eno (U2, David Bowie). We had a long chat with Chris and Jonny in the group’s headquarters, The Bakery. And we met a band in excellent form, who still hardly believe they’re no longer nineteen years old. [Read more]

Big thanks to by maloudajave1 for these scans of this month’s Q magazine, which features a 12 page spread of COLDPLAY!