'A Rush Of Blood To The Head' Coldplay's Last Album?

Could Coldplay's next album, A Rush Of Blood To The Head, be its last? Such rumors have hounded the U.K. band ever since its quick rise to fame with its 2000 debut release, Parachutes, with the British press in particular repeatedly anticipating the group's imminent doom due to the stress of success and the strain of relationships between band members.

Delays in the arrival of the new album, originally expected this summer but now due from Capitol Records on August 26, only rekindled suggestions of troubles in the camp.

Coldplay frontman Chris Martin says he enjoys hearing these rumours, and doesn't deny that the group has faced several challenges in its brief career. And yes, he's even willing to entertain the thought that perhaps A Rush Of Blood To The Head is Coldplay's last record.But Martin's reasons seem far more complex than what others have theorized. He tells LAUNCH, "The way I look at it is, that we could die at any point, you know? We're on airplanes all the time and, you know, life to me seems very fragile and there's no point in saving songs for your 15th record because you might never get to your 15th record. There's no point in saving energy on a concert because you got a concert the next day, you know? So it might be our last record, I don't know. We won't make another record unless it's better, and at the moment we really don't have anything left."

A Rush Of Blood To The Head features the single, "In My Place," currently working its way up the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart.