Ghost Stories

Coldplay's frontman, Chris Martin has been talking to Beats Music as part of a comprehensive track by track walk through of Coldplay's latest album, Ghost Stories. We have already seen the video of Chris telling us his inspiration for second single, A Sky Full Of Stars but this amazing new interview covers the in's and out's of Coldplay's sixth LP.   I have written a full transcript of the whole interview so you can read through at your own leisure and also translate if you wish. Throughout thi

True Love - Coldplay's heartbreaking love story   The fourth track off Coldplay's emotional album, Ghost Stories, has a distinct sound and feel from the previous fun and upbeat track, Ink. The tone change is reminiscent of Fix You proceeding White Shadows. The ending of the latter with the haunting organ sound provides a great transition to the anthemic ballad, while in probably the most cohesive Coldplay album to date, the start of True Love is a more of quicker transcend into darker side of t

Coldplay album sales : The past, present and future With the release of Ghost Stories, Coldplay are set to score a sixth UK number 1 album in a row, only one behind the seven The Beatles accomplished from their debut, Please Please Me in 1963 to Revolver in 1966 and set to be one in front of fellow UK band, Keane, who also have a perfect run of number 1 albums in the UK! Coldplay have also enjoyed a 100% album number 1 record in Norway. In the US album market, Coldplay are about to achieve thei

Chris Martin has been talking to audio company, Beats By Dre about the making of A Sky Full Of Stars and how the upbeat EDM inspired song is the most important song Coldplay have made lyrically. The latest behind the scenes video features various instrumentals of Coldplay's second single from Ghost Stories as the frontman goes into further details about the album and the role of A Sky Full Of Stars on it.   Chris expands on the meaning of Ghost Stories : "Ghost Stories is probably an album abou

Coldplay - Always in My Head Ghost Stories has been out in the big wide world for just over 2 weeks. For those who have immersed themselves in the emotional Ghost Stories, it may feel like an age away since the iTunes festival in March showcased some of the new material. Coldplaying.com will look back at where it began for each Ghost Story, the fan reaction, live performances and more.   Today, we start off with Always in My Head, which surprisingly appeared at the start of their appearance a

A Sky Full of Stars (Avicii edit)   Swedish superstar Avicii's edit of the Ghost Stories track, A Sky Full of Stars, which he produced alongside Paul Epworth, surfaced online, revealing what the energetic, EDM inspired track would be like if the Swedish producer had it all his way! The chorus is full blown EDM, opposed to the mixture of styles Coldplay wanted, to fit into the sound of Ghost Stories.   ^ Chris Martin and Avicii in the studio   A notable inclusion within the Avicii's edit wa

A Sky Full of Stars video shoot. Coldplay have arrived in Sydney, Australia, ready for their next leg of the Ghost Stories tour. The band are also due to play the '50th Max sessions' show on Wednesday, more on that at the end of the article.   Phil Harvey sent out a tweet yesterday, asking for fans to meet on Australia St, in Sydney for the A Sky Full of Stars video shoot the following day at 11.30am local time.     Many fans were queuing up hours beforehand! (thank you to Stephen Heffe

The meaning of A Sky Full of Stars & more Chris Martin chat!   Another day and another bunch of Chris Martin interviews to bring. Could get used to this! Today's radio escapade brought an interview with station 103.5 KTU H20 Wireless, Sirius XM hits 1 and 95.5 PLJ on the Todd Show.   Chris Martin's time at 103.5 KTU started with the question of which celeb would he like to meet. Having met many celebs, the only person he mentioned was basketball legend, LeBron James, that's if Chris didn

The festive cheer returned to Coldplay's live efforts as the band's concert in Munich saw the return of Christmas Lights within a concise and delightful set at Germany's BMW Welt.Thousands of Coldplayers gathered outside of the exhibition center prior to the show on a bitterly cold evening, awaiting the 'one-off' Ghost Stories show that lied ahead. The pre-show chat certainly had a few twists, with Up With The Birds very surprisingly performed during the band's soundcheck (joins the club with Tw

Late night watching TV, after Midnight during the 'dark core' of Coldplay's Ghost Stories. Another's Arms is mysterious yet simple in the lyrics and undoubtedly haunting.   Welcomed back with open arms!   On the 11th March, Coldplay returned to delight millions of fans tuning in across the world, at the iTunes Festival in Austin, Texas. Another's Arms was one of the two previously unheard tracks (with opener, Always In My Head) performed on the night. The first live version of the sixth Gh

Coldplay release sixth studio album - May 2014.   5th part to the 12 months of 2014 review series. (January, February, March, April) "Fix Yourself a spot of tea and a biscuit" Chris and the rest of the band started out the album release month in comedic fashion, with a tongue in cheek preview to the appearance on Saturday Night Live TV in the US.     And then we almost saw the literal meaning of tongue in cheek as Chris, during a re-enactment of an 'Amazing Spiderman' kissing scene, t

Coldplay have treated us to many freebies in the past. They are no strangers to free downloads or even free concerts! There's also companies, such as Google, who just a few days ago had given away the band's latest album, Ghost Stories away for free.   In Google's case, their promotion in celebrating the 3rd anniversary of the Google Play store involved a free giveaway of Coldplay's sixth album, Ghost Stories (On Thursday 5th March to be exact). The album is usually priced at £4.99 on the UK st

Coldplay opened for the first ever BBC Music Awards yesterday evening at Earls Court in London and gave us a scintillating performance, as Xylobands featured in a Coldplay performance for the first time since Under One Roof 2013! In a music celebration with over fifteen different artists such as Ed Sheeran, One Direction and Take That, Coldplay performed their single of the year nominated song, A Sky Full Of Stars.   It was the penultimate appearance of the Ghost Stories era and the band themse

Coldplay's final bow on the Ghost Stories tour After a very successful opening night at the Royal Albert Hall on Tuesday, Coldplay would repeat the feat once more, for the last time on the short and intimate Ghost Stories tour. Tuesday's show was astonishing, while Wednesday was set to be even better, with many fans from Coldplaying attending the show! I (Sparky/Marc) was one of them, heading to my first show since taking over Coldplaying from April . Myself, like many other fans, couldn't get

Coldplay's magical live return - March. 3rd part to the 12 months of 2014 review series. (January, February)   March had started and within 36 hours of the month change, we had gone from knowing nothing to knowing everything, about Coldplay's sixth album. Call it Magic! So, the burning question was the relevance of Midnight to Coldplay's upcoming album. We didn't have to wait too long for the answer as on March 2nd, the details of the band's new album titled, Ghost Stories were let loose on

Chris Martin returned to the Dan and Maz show down under earlier today as he revealed more of his thoughts about the next Coldplay tour and his friendship with Coldplay's fifth member, Phil Harvey to the Australian DJ's during a delicious and brief interview.   Chris' friendship with the Aussie pair has grow even stronger since his light hearted interview with them at the end of September. The modest and cheerful Chris started the chat off with, "I'm very grateful to be speaking to you".  

It was Coldplay's final concert of the Ghost Stories era this evening, as they wrapped it up in style with a tremendous live set in front of just a few hundred privileged fans, at the BBC Theatre in London. It was such a rush for the band, who had just about covered every corner of the BBC studios. The band were up and ready for the big (but intimate!) show that evening. Soundcheck - Paradise and Ink An hour before Coldplay performed their soundcheck, word quickly spread of the band appearing o

The track which started the wonderful 'Ghost Stories' era. The story from the beginning and a follow up to the 'Always In My Head', 'Magic', 'Ink' and 'True Love' articles throughout this era so far.   Before the dawn of 'Ghost Stories'   On Tuesday 25th February, all was quiet on the Coldplay front with just rumours of 'Magic' being a single due for release in May according to music release schedules and 2 unknown animated images posted on their official website a few days before, someth

The Official Coldplay website has confirmed the band will play a one-off show in Munich, Germany on Saturday 6th December. During the past few weeks, Warner Music Poland were running a competition for Polish Citizens to win tickets via their Twitter page and official website. The wait has certainly been an anxious one for German Coldplayers in particular, awaiting further details of an apparent standalone live show but will now have their devices ready for when tickets go on sale at 9am (German

Coldplay's Sydney adventure - June 2014. The Ghost Stories review series returns. 6th part to the series. This month - Coldplay visit Tokyo and Sydney as they shoot the official video for A Sky Full Of Stars.   (January, February, March, April, May) Online ticket mayhem! Tickets went on sale on June 6th for Coldplay's impending show at the Royal Albert Hall in London. The demand was expected to be very high and fans were discussing various tactics for getting access to tickets as soon as th

Earlier today, Chris Martin visited DJ's Dan and Maz at the 104.1 2dayFM studios, based in Sydney, Australia. Coldplay's frontman co-hosted an hour special on the Aussie radio station. Coldplay news has been few and far between in the past week as the band are enjoying downtime (or are recording the seventh album!). Chris has been on a journey down under, presumably not just for today's light hearted interview but it was a relaxed and very funny Chris appearance which was a joy to listen to!  

Coldplay - Magic. In a series of articles on the Ghost Stories tracks, under a month since the full album release, we move on to the second track of the album, Magic, after Always in My Head was summarized recently. We will delve into the realm of live performances, fan reaction, the music video and Guy Berryman's influence on the song!     The magical track from Ghost Stories was announced with the album details as the first official single on March 1st. Magic was available to download as

You were recently quizzed over the inclusion of 'A Sky Full Of Stars' on Coldplay's latest album, 'Ghost Stories'. While the song has become the band's biggest hit from the 'lower key' album, the majority of the band were not convinced with the version of the song Chris was planning to release prior to the album. Let's find out whether you were convinced of the 'ASFOS' inclusion on 'Ghost Stories'... Let's start off with the Coldplayers who approved the inclusion of 'ASFOS' :nev72 on the message

Ghost Stories era review - June 2014. Written by Coldplaying member, Grids (view the archive so far, below)   (January, February, March, April, May, June)     July 2014 was the magical month for the band and all Coldplayers around the world. Even though the shows during Ghost Stories era were held on a smaller scale, the band still made great efforts to make more intimate and interactive show experience for the best fans. Following from Royal Albert Hall shows on July 1st and 2nd, the best-s

Coldplay's official newsletter, The Coldplay Messenger has thrown us a hint that another chapter is yet to come during the band's current campaign for Ghost Stories. This comes during the news of the forthcoming Ghost Stories Live 2014 DVD and after a quiet period of late as Coldplay recently returned to their London Studio, 'The Bakery' to record their seventh album. One of our forum members, Cheeetaz picked up on something we have all appeared to miss during the Ghost Stories Live 2014 excitem