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Pink Floyd is the band most people want to see reunite - and the Spice Girls the group they want to split, according to a new poll. A survey of music fans across Europe also called for Westlife and Girls Aloud to call it a day.   The poll results are bad news for Posh, Baby, Scary, Sporty and Ginger Spice, who although not back together indefinitely are about to embark on a one-off worldwide reunion tour. After Pink Floyd, music fans said they wanted Swedish stars Abba and US rockers Guns N' Ros

Check out the 2007 section of Coldplay.com for a new star.   Friday, 21 September - London   This is the album I always dreamed they would make. It's the sound of a band realizing their own strength. The sound of four men with total confidence in themselves and one another.   It's the sound of a songwriter at the peak of his ability. Lyrically and melodically, Chris seems to have broken through past constraints. There's a new confidence to venture beyond the limit of the known and comfortable. A

Head over to coldplay.com to check out the latest batch of new arrivals on the timeline.   There's a bunch of pictures from Coldplay's 2006 Australian tour, a mini-documentary from Chris's trip to Ghana with Oxfam in 2005 and your chance to see Coldplay's first ever video, the extremely rare 1999 clip for 'Bigger Stronger', complete with audio commentary from the band.   As ever, each item is accompanied by a hand-written note from one of the band. Look for the orange stars to find the latest it

As previously reported, oday Ubisoft announced Jam Sessions – a groundbreaking music title exclusively for the Nintendo DS - is now available nationwide at the manufacturer’s suggested retail price of $29.99. Jam Sessions is rated E10+.   Jam Sessions turns the Nintendo DS into a guitar by simply strumming the Touch Screen to make music, making it a guitar experience in the palm of your hand. While some music titles encourage players to emulate rock stars, Jam Sessions actually gives players the

Alt rockers Coldplay announced eight song titles from their upcoming album via their website recently. Songs from that record will be "Lost", "Cemeteries Of London", "Violet Hill", "Poppy Fields", "42", "Yes!", "Leftrightleftrightleft" and "Rainy Day". No release date has been set for the album, but it's expected some time in 2008.   According to the band's post, "Expect a short, concise record with no fat and at least two top-division songs released independently...We're still a few months from

Article from February 2007   Members of Coldplay; Chris Martin, Guy Berryman, Will Champion and Jonny Buckland signed an Epiphone EJ-200CE for the upcoming Music Rising Auction that will take place in New York City. Not only are they all amazing musicians, but they are also skilled in balance and dexterity!   For more information on Music Rising visit www.musicrising.org.  

Article from February 2007   Members of Coldplay; Chris Martin, Guy Berryman, Will Champion and Jonny Buckland signed an Epiphone EJ-200CE for the upcoming Music Rising Auction that will take place in New York City. Not only are they all amazing musicians, but they are also skilled in balance and dexterity!   For more information on Music Rising visit www.musicrising.org.   Thank you to Coldplay for their donation!   “ICONS OF MUSIC” AUCTION BENEFITING MUSIC RISING - 26.03.2007   New York, NY (

Coldplay frontman Chris Martin has delighted his army of fans by confirming he is to write a song all about tits.   The internet has been buzzing with rumours of a Coldplay tits anthem after Martin’s brief holiday with David Coverdale from Whitesnake. Seasoned Coldplay observers were last night speculating on the lyrical content of the new song.   Jeremiah Johnson, Coldplay editor of the Sunday Telegraph, said: “He’ll probably call it ‘Tits’ or, if he’s feeling playful, ‘Titties’. There is absol

Check out the 2006 section of Coldplay.com for a new star.   Australia Tour 2006 We had had a nightmare tour of Australia in 2003, and so we were nervous about this one. But it heeled (sp) all the wounds – amazing audiences and places and people. The last concert, in Perth, was followed by the weirdest tea drinking experience that Jonny & I ever had. But its too long of a story …… CM   More on this here  

Check out the 2005 section of Coldplay.com for a new star.   Trip to Ghana: March 2005 Before X&Y came out we went to Ghana to revise for the Fairtrade campaign that we wanted to promote. Apart from our plane nearly crashing, it was pretty incredible. In the same way as when we went to Haiti in 2002, it was both inspiring and terrifying. We met a lot of cool people, and saw what a difference fairtrade can make. CM   More on this here  

Check out the 1999 section of Coldplay.com for a new star.   Bigger Stronger video: September 1999 We asked our friend Mat Whitecross to do a video for us. Originally he wrote the treatment for Spies, but when we changed it to Bigger Stronger it was too late. Mat is now a very famous film maker (Road to Guantanemo) and needless to say, his work has got much better! WC   More on this here [thanks Loretin & pallavi]  

BBC Radio has signed a deal to put the In Concert series on mobile via spodtronic (previously Spodradio)—it features over 1,000 exclusive concerts from bands including Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Queen, AC/DC, Coldplay, Muse, Chemical Brothers and Avril Lavigne.   Liquid Air Lab will launch the spodtronic live radio service, aiming for an exclusive carrier partner in each of 20 continental European countries (the UK isn’t included) and then plans to cross the pond into Canada and the USA. The serv

Check out the 1997 section of Coldplay.com for a new star.   Sometime in 1997 Chris and I went busking in Covent Garden. It was probably the first incarnation of the band. We played Beatles songs and 'The Bear Necessities' and 'Mrs. Robinson'. We were moved on by the police (with only 20p in the hat) (which I put there). Wx   More on this here [thanks CP678]  

In mid-October, Waxploitation will launch a new charity auction through eBay's non-profit MissionFish partner. Waxploitation is making available a number of prized signed guitars from Avril Lavigne, Common, Flaming Lips, Nickelback, and Deftones, as well as rare items from Coldplay, Bjork, TV on the Radio to name a few.   Established in Los Angeles by Jeff Antebi in 1997, Waxploitation has been pioneering new models in the music business and making a difference through active social causes for a

Sept. 11: Actress Betsy Drake is 84. Actor Earl Holliman is 79. Movie director Brian De Palma is 67. Rock musician Mickey Hart (the Dead) is 64. Singer-musician Leo Kottke is 62. Rock singer-musician Tommy Shaw (Styx) is 54. Sports reporter Lesley Visser is 54. Actor Reed Birney is 53. Singer-songwriter Diane Warren is 51. Musician Jon Moss (Culture Club) is 50. Actor Scott Patterson is 49. Rock musician Mick Talbot (the Style Council) is 49. Actress Roxann Dawson is 49. Actress Virginia Madsen

Coldplay have revealed the first details of their new album including a number of songs up for consideration for the final track listing.   Writing on their official blog the band announced that they had just returned to the studio after a month off. They wrote: “The plan has always been to make a short record. No more than 42 minutes. 9 songs (give or take).”   The songs which might make it to the final cut include ‘Lost!’, ‘Cemeteries Of London’, ‘Violet Hill’. ‘Poppy Fields’, ‘42’, ‘Yes!’,

As previously reported, Chris Martin and Missy Elliot will reportedly join Nelly Furtado in her VMA performance next month.   Nelly Furtado will kick off her performance with All Good Things (Come to an End) and Chris Martin will enter to sing the second part with her, then Chris leaves and she starts singing 'Do It' with Missy Elliot.   The 24th annual VMAs will air live from the Palms Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas tomorrow [sunday 9th Sept], with Timbaland as “maestro,” in charge of creating s

Pinstripe suit trousers, a washed-out black top, curly blonde locks swept back under a cap and white trainers.   Let’s hope the new Coldplay album sounds better than frontman Chris Martin looks at the moment, report The Sun. The singer was snapped out strolling in London looking a bit, well, dishevelled. In fact, they reckon his resemblance to shaggy Seventies crooner Kevin Godley in his 10CC days is more uncanny by the day.   The Sun also comments that Chris’s stylish missus, Gwyneth Paltrow,

Check out the 2007 section of Coldplay.com for a new star.   September 2007 Thursday 6th We will miss Luciano Pavarotti a lot Listen to him sing 'Caruso' It's unbelievable CM   More on this here  

Check out the 2005 section of Coldplay.com for a new star.   Beaten by cartoon frog. 30/5/2005 We were honoured to be beaten to #1 in the charts by Crazy Frog. The best man definitely won. GB   More on this here [thanks Joyhannah]  

Check out the 2003 section of Coldplay.com for a new star.   Michael Kamen arranged the orchestra for us, and it was a real priviledge to work with him and the N.Y. philharmonic orchestra.   More on this here

More news items on Coldplay.com timeline, report the official site. Here's what they had to say:   MORE NEW ITEMS ON COLDPLAY.COM TIMELINE   We're still adding at least two items a week to the timeline at the new coldplay.com, each accompanied by a hand-written note from the band. Over the last few weeks, they've included a note from Jonny on the band's first ever US show in 2001, a mini-documentary about the band's habit of dropping huge yellow balloons on their audiences and a note from Chris

HD Net will be airing part one of Coldplay's Toronto concert on Sunday September 9th at 9 PM Eastern and then again on September 10th at 1 AM Eastern.   In looking at upcoming programming on HDN (HDNet) network (channel 79 on DirecTV if you get high-definition programming), a program called “Coldplay: How We Saw the World” is listed to be shown on 9/9 at 8:00 pm (CST) and 9/10 at 12:00 am (CST). The info given for the program is: “Documentary, Drama, Music. Coldplay performs hits from their mult

Kanye West (feat. Chris Martin, Coldplay) - “Homecoming” (audio) and all other tracks - Exclusive Sneak Peek   You can now listen to "Homecoming" (featuring Chris Martin) and all the other new Kanye West tracks from the latest album 'Graduation' at Power 105.1fm here [thanks Amy]   Good breeding+nice clothes does not a rapper make. Which is why almost five years ago, the idea of Kanye West being a Grammy-winning rap and hip-hop artist is almost amusing. “It was a strike against me that I didn’t

Check out the 2007 section of Coldplay.com for a new star.   This is a video for our alter-ego band 'The Nappies' made. The line up features the legendary George Martin (Beatles producer). They had a short lived career but rumours of a reunion have been heard... GB   More on this here