(I don't know if it has been posted. These are news from one week ago, but I forgot to post it then and just remembered it now. Sorry if it has been already posted.)

 

"One time I sent [bowie] a song to ask him to sing on it. He called me and said, 'It's not one of your best,'" Martin admits

 

During David Bowie's long hiatus prior to releasing The Next Day, the singer would sporadically reappear to contribute background vocals for artists like Arcade Fire ("Reflektor"), TV on the Radio and Scarlett Johansson. However, when Chris Martin attempted to recruit Bowie to contribute vocals to a song Coldplay was working on, Bowie rejected the collaboration because the track wasn't good enough.

 

Martin made the revelation at the inaugural BBC Music Awards on December 11th during a video tribute to Bowie, a nominee for the British Artist of the Year award. "One time I sent him a song to ask him to sing on it. He called me and said, 'It's not one of your best,'" Martin admitted (via NME). "He's got very high standards and I appreciate that. It inspires the rest of us to keep our standards high." Martin didn't elaborate which Coldplay song Bowie had turned down.

 

Despite being rejected by Bowie, Martin had nothing but praise for The Next Day. "When 'Where Are We Now?' came out I was staggered, and also annoyed," Martin said at the BBC Music Awards. "Like, 'Come on, it's not fair.' He's already got all these amazing songs and then this instant classic."

 

If Coldplay hopes to get Bowie to join them in the studio, they better write something that meets his high standards, and fast: Martin previously hinted that the band's in-the-works next LP, tentatively titled A Head Full of Dreams, could be their "final" album. "It's our seventh thing, and the way we look at it, it's like the last Harry Potter book or something like that," Martin said. "I have to think of it as the final thing we're doing. Otherwise we wouldn't put everything into it."

 

Source: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/chris-martin-david-bowie-rejected-coldplay-collaboration-20141214

 

Which song do you think it could be? An old song or maybe a new one considered for "A Head Full of Dreams"?

Thanks :) I did see it around in a thread somewhere but it's better for it to have a new one

I bet Moving To Mars. That entire song could have been a David Bowie song. It was no doubt inspired by him, so I wonder if Chris tried getting him on board with it.

pretty sure this was pre viva. i remember chris saying during viva interviews that he showed bowie a song he wrote and bowie said that it wasn't one of chris' best. and chris wasn't too personally offended since he wrote it under sleeping pills' influence.

The press made so much out of this, jeez. No one likes rejection but I bet Coldplay appreciated the constructive criticism. As Chris said "He (Bowie) keeps our standards high"

^ people (both journalists and naysayers) are having a field day with this, still! it's just ammunition you know. and speaking of, there was a pretty coldplay-hating article from a usual coldplay hating writer today.

That's so effed up. Uptown Funk actually reminds me of Morris Day and The Time ( Prince, Purple Rain era) and James Brown

 

Edit, and DO NOT FUCK WITH THE MEMORY OF JEFF BUCKLEY!!

with slings and arrows like these being thrown their way constantly, it is no wonder that coldplay are not as outspoken as they used to be, especially chris. not that they were very outspoken in the beginning, but you get the feeling of only getting soundbites from them for the most part. except for the amazing zane lowe interview this year.

^^^ Uptown Funk is awesome so I take this as a compliment :cool:

And ohmygod that article is ridiculous on so many levels :lol:

This was my response-

 

In all fairness- for anyone that just states that Coldplay is a sucky band- listen to the song Moving To Mars and tell me you don't hear David Bowie influence. The problem with Coldplay is they're trying to appeal to the younger audience now. They're just too nice. They're listening to those studio heads whispering in their ears too much. But there's some serious talent still there. So yes, here you have it- a nuanced opinion on the internet that's not "Coldplay's great!" or "Coldplay sucks!". Crazy, huh?

Moving To Mars, very Bowie influenced. Please Coldplay write more of Moving To Mars, think it's underrated as a song and it's music alone without lyrics is great enough on it's own.

Oh the first time I knew about this was Chris mentioned at the BBC Music Awards 2014