There's also video of Chris and Jonny being interviewed from Singapore in the link below
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Coldplay want you to sing along
SINGAPORE : British band Coldplay broke onto the international scene with their debut album “Parachutes” and hit single “Yellow” in 2000. Led by Chris Martin on vocals and piano, Jon Buckland (guitar), Will Champion (drums) and Guy Berryman (bass), Coldplay has sold over 50 million albums to date and has become one of the biggest rock bands in the world.
Despite their phenomenal success with their first three albums - “Parachutes” (2000), “A Rush of Blood to the Head” (2002) and “X&Y” (2005) - Coldplay decided to take their music in a different direction with their fourth studio album “Viva La Vida”.
And their gamble paid off.
Drawing influence from bands such as Blur, Arcade Fire and My Bloody Valentine, Coldplay’s groundbreaking comeback album was not only extremely well-received, it became the world's best-selling album of 2008, according to London-based International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI).
Dubbed as Coldplay’s most “experimental” album, “Viva la Vida” also sold more downloads than any other album in digital history within a month of release.
“When you’re a band these days, or any musician or film maker or writer, people have a lot of choice of entertainment. And so when you’ve made three records, you need to give everyone a very good reason to buy a fourth record because they’ve already heard the sound of your group three times,” Martin told Primetime Morning.
“I think as we go on, we have to try and shift our sound as much as possible to keep people interested, and ourselves as well. And also, we get braver the more we go on to try things we might not have tried before.”
The band who described their music as "very heavy soft rock" clinched three Grammy Awards this year including Best Rock Album and Song of the Year for their hit single "Viva La Vida". But for Coldplay, Grammys are not the best reward.
"The best reward is people singing along [at our concerts]... enjoying songs," said Martin. "The Grammys are like our Olympics."
Judging by their sell-out concerts in their current Viva La Vida world tour, Coldplay must feel greatly rewarded. But response from the home crowd has been, ironically, underwhelming.
“In Britain, at the moment, some people are a little funny about us... I don’t know why, said Martin, recalling one of their shows in December. “We’d been all around the world and we’d done okay. We came back to the centre of Britain, Birmingham, and after two songs, the audience went quiet... the whole room of 15,000 people was completely silent.
"That was, for me, a big moment because part of me wanted to start crying and walk off. But the other part said ‘okay, this is a challenge’ and so we tried to make them happier. So when an audience isn’t so responsive, it’s painful but it’s also more rewarding eventually.”
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