Richard Ashcroft | Keys To The World

Of all the strange sights that Live 8 threw us during the summer (Madonna dancing awkwardly with a famine survivor, Snoop Dogg extolling the crowd to eradicate poverty by waving their "motherfuckin' hands in the air"), one of the strangest was Richard Ashcroft's guest appearance with Coldplay.

Now Coldplay are a fine group who have written some great songs and don't deserve half of the critical bile that's thrown at them. But they've never written a song as attention-grabbing as Bitter Sweet Symphony, as moving as The Drugs Don't Work or as nigh on perfect as History. Richard Ashcroft has - is he really now lining up next to Embrace in the "Chris Martin saved my career" category?

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