In April, the tracklisting to Coldplay's fourth album was officially announced. Interestingly, the album appeared to be called 'Viva La Vida' and had two interesting omissions - Chinese Sleep Chant and The Escapist. Coldplay also arrived in Sicily, Italy to shoot the video for the first single, Violet Hill, taken from Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends.
Not only that, Coldplay also unveiled the album artwork to ‘Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends.’ The band used a classic painting by French Romantic painter Eugène Delacroix from 1830 called ‘Liberty Leading The People’ (La Liberté guidant le people). It depicts the a woman personifying Liberty in the French Revolution leading the army in their march over dead bodies holding the French tricolour flag aloft.
It was announced that Coldplay would premiere the first single from their fourth album, ‘Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends’, on Tuesday (29th April) on BBC Radios 1 and 6, which will then open the floodgates for thousands of other radio stations to be allowed to air the track. 'Violet Hill' was downloaded for free by over 600,000 people in the 24 hours since it was made available at 12.15pm on Tuesday (April 29). In the first 12 hours it was downloaded by 300,000. This figure doubled overnight as other countries logged on to Coldplay.com, the source of the free download.
Read the full April 2008 Coldplay review article in the Coldplay forum here
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