Would you believe it? Chris De Burgh, the Mr Nice of rock, is laying into Coldplay. “People say to me, ‘You should hear the new Coldplay record’. And I listen to it and I think I’ve heard it all before. It’s A B C D, it’s nothing new.”
De Burgh is unimpressed. Warming to his theme, he adds: “This business is based on chords and we are straight-jacketed by them. There’s only so far you can go. It’s the serious problem of today. I used to listen to music, to people like The Beatles, with awe. They were doing something new.”
Read the full article at the Express and Star here and discuss it at the Coldplay forum here onwards.
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