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Jonny donates a commemorative parachutes disk to fundraise for North Wales Emergency Doctor Service (NWEDS).

an interesting chris martin anecdote from noel gallagher. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b055pjf3 50:30

chris surfing in malibu on saturday. pics are all over the net.

i wasn't blown away by it, but the return to rock is great. it is a good song. looks like the album is very conceptual.

i think she belongs in this thread :D

chris was at the India's daughter premier last night x x <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>screening of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/IndiasDaughter?src=hash">#IndiasDaughter</a>. Only time I will share a stage with Meryl Streep. And all sorts of impressive people. <a href="http://t.co/5UZdOw2VFr">pic.twitter.com/5UZdOw2VFr</a></p>— Kirsty Brimelow QC (@Kirsty_Brimelow) <a href="https://twitter.com/Kirsty_Brimelow/status/575146687020339200">March 10, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

in NY today <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>So fun to have Chris Martin drop by the office today... Always a pleasure! <a href="http://t.co/4Q88VrWX9V">pic.twitter.com/4Q88VrWX9V</a></p>— Global Citizen (@GlblCtzn) <a href="https://twitter.com/GlblCtzn/status/575052690327269376">March 9, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

initially brian eno's inclusion made me think that this is a song by Manoj that samples a MX song, since eno got writing credits during MX. but him being a lyricist makes me wonder. still i don't have a lot of hope for a coldplay original since we've had false alarms like this before.

but most likely, this is a song sampling coldplay.

this is fantastic news! i wish all circuses would stop using all animals, not just elephants. then again, i wish there were no animal captivity for human entertainment/profit altogether.

Noel Gallagher on songwriting x

hahaa! <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>You'll have to wait a little longer to hear the real stuff we did together! Can't wait to premiere it!!</p>— Tim Bergling (@Avicii) <a href="https://twitter.com/Avicii/status/572872911670784000">March 3, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

so this may not be the track avicii keeps talking about after all.. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>The "Chris Martin track" from my set was a mashup of an old demo vocal and super unfinished.</p>— Tim Bergling (@Avicii) <a href="https://twitter.com/Avicii/status/572872888585359362">March 3, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

this is great! <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Happy Birthday to <a href="https://twitter.com/coldplay">@coldplay</a>´s frontman, Chris Martin! I hope you like it ^_^ <a href="http://t.co/o4DRTpy8Xc">pic.twitter.com/o4DRTpy8Xc</a></p>— Marta (@_martamik_) <a href="https://twitter.com/_martamik_/status/572479790067933185">March 2, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Emily Eavis has confirmed coldplay are not headlining this year. x

birthday boy is looking happy :) x

i think it's not the same song, but similarities say more about the generality of EDM songs.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Chris martin dance moves. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Coldplay?src=hash">#Coldplay</a> <a href="http://t.co/sDAWv3t42W">pic.twitter.com/sDAWv3t42W</a></p>— naco (@nacikse) <a href="https://twitter.com/nacikse/status/572002584615124993">March 1, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

^ i know what you mean. listen to a rush of blood and this and it can be a little unsettling.

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another clip chris' voice fits pretty well in EDM

here is a sketchier, longer preview https://soundcloud.com/avicii-music-holand/avicii-ft-chris-martin-id-forever-preview

looks like avicii played their collab recentl. pretty sure that this is chris singing.

i think vlv would be the closest we'll get to a double album from coldplay.

BBC commercial unit to distribute Chris Martin-curated Global Citizen Festival BBC Worldwide (BBCW), the commercial arm of the UK public broadcaster, has clinched the licence to be global distributor of the 2015 Global Citizen Festival being curated by Coldplay frontman Chris Martin (pictured). BBCW’s participation means the festival, which takes place in New York’s Central Park on 26 September and will be broadcast live in the US via the MSNBC TV network, will receive a truly global audience. In addition to being streamed live internationally, the specially curated six-hour live event will be supported by a one-hour TV special edited by the festival’s 2015 creative director Richard Curtis, the British Oscar nominee and a BAFTA award-winning screenwriter. It is the one-hour spectacle that BBCW will be distributing worldwide. But Martin will be responsible for the festival’s original live stage performances. Although the headliners have not been announced yet, it is scheduled to be one of the biggest and most politically important live concerts since the original Live Aid. It supports the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, a 15-year mission to end extreme poverty and combat climate change. Launched in 2012, the Global Citizen Festival turned into a major music-industry highlight when high-profile acts that included Jay Z, Beyoncé and John Legend participated last year. For that event, world leaders gathered in New York for the UN General Assembly to coincide with the third annual Global Citizen Festival. Music acts joined 60,000 change makers on the Great Lawn of Central Park to urge politicians and citizens to do more to help get rid of extreme poverty. In addition to this year’s concert, there will be special films produced by Curtis and Grammy Awards producer Ken Ehrlich. For Australian philanthropist Hugh Evans, CEO of The Global Poverty Project, “This is the pivotal year in the movement to end extreme poverty by 2030, and Global Citizen is proud to partner with BBC Worldwide to bring the 2015 Global Citizen Festival to people around the world.” For BBC Worldwide, this is a landmark music-TV deal. It says in a statement: “From a team of musicians, film-makers and event-producers, including those responsible for extraordinary parts of the London 2012 Olympic opening ceremony, comes a historic hour of television, when the whole world embraces a plan to be the first generation to live without extreme poverty and the first and last generation to be threatened by climate change.” x this is great! looking forward to a wonderful event this september.