Eng Coldplay: A Head Full of Dreams (2018)

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Hello?
- Hi, hey, Chris, it's Mat.

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- Mat, how you doing?
- I'm good. Can you talk?

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Yeah, it's
a good time. How are you?

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I'm good, I was just...
I was just wondering

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if you had a chance
to see the film yet.

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Uh, the truth is, Mat, I don't
think I'm gonna be able to do it.

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I feel like if I see it, I might just
wanna remove myself from the film.

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- So, if it's okay with
you, could I just trust you on it?

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- Okay.
- If you don't mind.

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I just feel like
we've known you for so long

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and we trust you
and we love you.

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You just make the film
you wanna make

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and all I ask is please
could you not open the film

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with one of those shots of the
band walking to the stage,

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'cause I feel like
that's been done.

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- Really?
- Yeah.

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Okay. Well, leave it with me.
I'll see what I can do.

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- Thanks, Mat.
- Yeah.

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- Speak to you soon.
- Bye-bye.

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I don't
want to rule or conquer anyone.

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I should like to help everyone
if possible...

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Jew, Gentile, black man, white.

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We all want to help one another.

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Human beings are like that.

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We don't want to hate
or to despise one another.

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In this world there's room for everyone.
The good earth is rich.

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For those who can hear me,
I say do not despair.

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The hate of men will pass
and dictators die,

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and the power they took from the
people will return to the people.

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The kingdom of God
is within men,

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not one man, nor a group of men,

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but in all men, in you!

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You, the people, have the power!

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The power to create machines,
the power to create happiness,

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you, the people, have the power to
make this life free and beautiful,

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to make this life
a wonderful adventure!

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A wonderful adventure!

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A wonderful adventure!

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A Head Full Of Dreams is somewhere
we've been trying to go for a long time.

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The journey has been
so incremental and so episodic,

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it's just a mountain
that keeps getting higher.

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If I ever turn round
and look down,

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I think will I just be amazed
about how on earth we got here?

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There's not really
a day goes by

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that I don't get a reminder
of how very fortunate I am,

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first of all,
to have met the other guys

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and that things just happened
in the way that they did.

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Our friendships
have somehow survived

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and stayed quite similar
to how they were.

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We've spent half our lives
together now.

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I've spent more time with these people
than almost anybody else.

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It's more like family, it's more
like brothers, actually, than friends.

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I think we all think about what
we'd be doing with our lives

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if we hadn't met each other.

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I mean, it's almost terrifying
thinking about it, really.

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- Cool.
- Nice.

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Can you turn the lights down
a tiny bit?

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Just this one down a bit.
Thanks, bro.

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Cool, cool, cool.

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What are we singing?

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Nice.

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Great work, fellers.

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Yeah, that's it. That's it.

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Wait, list...
Listen to the applause.

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If you don't like it, don't worry about it.
I'm having fun. You know what I mean?

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That's how it makes me feel.

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Dad, I love this song. Thank you, baby.

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And thank you for saying
what I paid you to say earlier.

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I was saying to the others,

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to see things that were recorded
20 years ago, you know,

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I had no recollection of anyone
having a camera back then...

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Is a really strange sensation.

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What had become really distant
memories came flooding back to me.

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You know, our lives have changed
in so many ways.

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And when I think back
to what our first album was...

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You know,
if you listen to Parachutesnow,

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it's very acoustic and it's very
small and it's very intimate.

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And then if you fast forward
to A Head Full Of Dreams,

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it's a very different thing
altogether.

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Looking back at some of the
old footage, underneath it all,

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I still see the same people then
as we are today.

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To really get the full story, you've
got to go back to when we met.

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I mean, it really does
feel like a lifetime ago.

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We were friends for almost a year
before we played any music together.

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We all lived in the same
student halls of residence.

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Most people would've found
their bandmates by advertising.

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"Drummer required" in the back of
the NME or something like that.

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Fuck it!
- I think in our case, it was different

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because we all really knew this is
the group that we want to form.

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This is who we want to be with.

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We met at
University College London.

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We were all studying
to be in bands.

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I've been expecting you,
come on in.

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Just your Jones person?

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Let me show you around.

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College was just a sideline,
you know.

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I thought it was a good place to meet
people 'cause I wanted to be in a band.

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I got there,
got to this big place,

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Ramsay Hall it was called,
Tottenham Court Road.

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That block hasn't changed a bit.
That was where we lived.

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- Looks quite bucolic now, doesn't it?
- Yeah.

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Didn't look like that
then.

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I remember the first day I got here,
a tramp was sick outside my room.

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Lots of musicians in this hall,
weren't there?

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Five or six bands
were spawned in our year.

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There was a lot of sniffing out
at the beginning, wasn't there?

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Like, who does what?
Who's a guitarist?

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There was a bass player
on the third floor.

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Chris was like this massive
ball of energy and hair.

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Yeah, I remember he had
very long hair,

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quite unlike anyone
I'd ever met before.

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I would always be
showing off saying,

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"I play songs, I play songs" to
anyone that would listen, you know?

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♪ I love you Jim
you are a geezer ♪

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♪ I don't mind in
the slightest ♪

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♪ That you look just a little
bit like Julius Caesar ♪

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He was very, very funny,

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and, you know,
he was the life of the party.

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♪ I love
Jim and everybody knows ♪

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♪ Even though he's got a slightly
Roman nose ♪

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He was just waiting for
someone to click with,

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- and fortunately that was you.
- Hmm.

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Back in 1996 when we met,

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I didn't think Jonny spoke
at all.

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He was just this stoned guy
in the corner

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that if you said something he
would just, like, smile.

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Yeah, we got on pretty well
straightaway,

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but you know, you can't start
playing music on your first date.

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I came to London solely to find some people
to be in a band with and make music.

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I'd wanted to do this
from when I was a small boy,

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but you never really imagine
that it's possible.

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One day I came into the room
he was in,

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and Jonny had a guitar,
and I was like,

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"I didn't know
you played guitar."

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Then he started playing.

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And something in me
was switched.

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I was like, "This is the guy I've
been looking for my whole life."

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Chuck! Chuck, it's Marvin.

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Like in Back to the Future
where Chuck's cousin Marvin

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calls Chuck Berry and says, "I've got
that new sound you're looking for."

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Well, listen to this!

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It was
love at first sight for me.

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He took a little longer
to convince.

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When I first started playing
with Chris,

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I thought, "He's so good, I think
we might do something," you know.

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Obviously you have a sense
that something is starting,

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but I don't think we had a sense of what
that something was or where it would end up.

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Within a couple of weeks,
we'd asked Guy if he would join.

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Me and Guy didn't like
each other at first.

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He thought I was weird
'cause I had long curly hair.

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I thought he was arrogant, but he wasn't.
He was just really quiet.

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But then we bonded over
a keyboard, so we thought,

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"Ah, wicked. Well,
maybe we don't hate each other."

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What does it mean to me, music?

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It's been my life since I was
probably about five years old.

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I found a box of cassettes my sister
had, and I'll never forget that.

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I became a bass player 'cause
of my love of soul and funk.

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And that was it, you know.
I'd get home from school

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and I would just play that
instrument constantly for hours,

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just lock myself away
and play it.

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He was the first person
to put his whole life on hold

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based on one song that Jonny and I had
played him on two crappy old guitars.

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It just blows my mind
that he did that.

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It soon became apparent
that we needed a drummer

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if we wanted to play a gig.

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Chris Martin, these are
your wheels of fortune.

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What's up? I'm Cheese Hawk,
I ride for Proco trucks

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and Deutschentractors.

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We went away for the summer
and at the end of the summer,

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we started really writing some good
songs and we wanted to do a demo.

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Today we can eat food
that isn't come out of the bin.

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We were cool in everything except
the drums. We didn't have a drummer.

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So, when we went to do our first photo
shoot in Tesco's on Oxford Street,

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I did mine, Jonny did his,
Guy did his.

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So it was just three of us and
it was called the PanicEP.

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So, we went down to Will's house

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and Will was always our mate who
played guitar much better than anyone

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and knew about 100 songs.

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He was a walking jukebox.

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I met Chris... We were
on a bus somewhere together.

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We used to play guitars in the stairwells
'cause they had nice acoustics.

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I was at the bottom of the stairs
and he was on the fifth floor.

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A five-story musical experience.

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It's a very fundamental and basic
memory that I have about being a child.

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Music was all around.
It's a legacy of my mum's.

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I knew that Chris and Jonny
had recorded an EP

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and they wanted some drums
on it.

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My flatmate played the drums
and he had a drum kit.

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We set it all up and then, when it
was ready to go, he wasn't around.

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I think he'd disappeared.

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I'm not sure how committed
he was to being in a band.

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So, Will said, "I'll do it."

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I'm the only one here,
I'm the only one left.

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"I'll give it a go" and then
he went...

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I had the same feeling that I had with Guy
and Jonny. "Oh, that's him. There he is."

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We didn't actually know
you were a drummer.

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No, I wasn't.

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That's the key, I'm still trying
to convince the world that I am.

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And Coldplay was born.

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It's like when bacon and eggs

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and mushrooms and chips

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are put on the same plate

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and become something greater
than those individual parts.

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It becomes
a cohesive whole that's tasty.

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Our sound is tasty.

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Chris is the unstoppable
creative force of the band

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that we try our best
to keep up with.

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He's our best friend
and a musical genius

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and he never stops
surprising you.

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Music means everything to me.

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I think when I was about 16,

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I was performing and doing music
at boarding school.

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And I remember saying to people,
"I'm gonna do this forever."

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They were like, "Sure. And why don't you
reanimate dinosaurs while you're at it?"

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You know, it was
that ridiculous.

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But I've been really blessed
in my life

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with an ability to not give up,
and it came from my dad.

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He's the first person
that said it to me,

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and would often say it to me,

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and I now say it to my son.

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My dad is a circus
ringmaster really,

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but he was told
to be an accountant.

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And in my mum, I could feel
a certain frustration

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that she wasn't able to do what
she really loved, which is music.

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So, with both of them,
there was a subconscious thing

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that if you really feel that you're
supposed to do something, go for it.

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And it gave me
this great sense of possibility

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and then that philosophy
became A Head Full Of Dreams.

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He has a relentless and infectious
energy for music and for life

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and it's incredible
to have shared a journey

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because we're
very different people.

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Chris always has a very clear
idea about where he wants to be,

233
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what he wants to be doing next.

234
00:16:36,248 --> 00:16:41,338
We, Jon Buckland, Chris Martin,
Will Champion and Guy Berryman,

235
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aka The Coldplay, are gonna
go on to be such a huge band,

236
00:16:44,558 --> 00:16:48,868
and this will be on national television
within four years, four years.

237
00:16:49,038 --> 00:16:51,828
This is now 26th June, 1998.

238
00:16:51,998 --> 00:16:54,568
By the 26th of June, 2002,

239
00:16:54,748 --> 00:16:57,528
The Coldplay or the band,
whatever they're called then,

240
00:16:57,698 --> 00:16:59,878
will be known
just all over, man.

241
00:17:00,058 --> 00:17:03,278
We're gonna be so big.

242
00:17:03,448 --> 00:17:06,758
So Guy, Will, Jon, and Chris,
Don't you forget, all right?

243
00:17:07,448 --> 00:17:09,798
Massive. Absolutely huge.

244
00:17:56,018 --> 00:17:57,498
Every record is
your first and last.

245
00:17:57,678 --> 00:17:59,318
That's the way
you should really treat it.

246
00:17:59,418 --> 00:18:01,418
We're not under the impression
that we have a right

247
00:18:01,588 --> 00:18:03,808
to just amble
into these massive arenas

248
00:18:03,988 --> 00:18:06,664
and play to the same kind of numbers
that we played to on the last tour.

249
00:18:06,688 --> 00:18:08,728
We're starting again
at rock bottom.

250
00:18:08,908 --> 00:18:11,234
- Well, not quite rock bottom...
- Sort of drop bottom soft.

251
00:18:11,258 --> 00:18:13,388
- Yeah.
- But that's good, I think.

252
00:18:13,558 --> 00:18:16,319
As ridiculous as it sounds, I still
feel like we're trying to make it.

253
00:18:16,998 --> 00:18:18,934
Hey, our friend Chris
Martin is in studio with us now.

254
00:18:18,958 --> 00:18:20,958
And he's from a little band
called Coldplay.

255
00:18:21,138 --> 00:18:22,894
Their new record is called
A Head Full Of Dreams.

256
00:18:22,918 --> 00:18:25,968
Aren't you so delighted, though,
when you crawl out of the cave

257
00:18:26,138 --> 00:18:28,798
where you boys make your magic
that the world still cares?

258
00:18:28,968 --> 00:18:32,708
Definitely. And right now we're
going on tour for another 18 months or so.

259
00:18:32,888 --> 00:18:34,368
That's when
the real payoff happens.

260
00:18:36,798 --> 00:18:38,628
You can't take anything
for granted.

261
00:18:38,808 --> 00:18:40,368
As fast as the ascent has been,

262
00:18:40,548 --> 00:18:43,068
the descent can be
four or five times as fast.

263
00:18:43,638 --> 00:18:45,118
Having done like
a week of rehearsing,

264
00:18:45,288 --> 00:18:46,938
we did like a practice gig.

265
00:18:47,118 --> 00:18:48,524
It was basically like
us saying good-bye.

266
00:18:48,548 --> 00:18:50,168
We're going away
for a year and a half.

267
00:18:50,338 --> 00:18:52,224
At the end of it,
I got this overwhelming feeling

268
00:18:52,248 --> 00:18:53,728
that everyone was being
nice about it,

269
00:18:53,818 --> 00:18:55,908
but actually
we sounded absolutely terrible.

270
00:18:56,078 --> 00:18:58,638
We definitely felt like we had to
kind of earn our stripes again.

271
00:18:59,348 --> 00:19:01,648
Hey, how are you doing?

272
00:19:01,828 --> 00:19:04,478
The brand-new album is
so different from the last album.

273
00:19:04,658 --> 00:19:07,268
So much energy,
so much color, so much light.

274
00:19:07,438 --> 00:19:10,618
Absolutely. We wanted to just
make the album we always dreamed of.

275
00:19:10,788 --> 00:19:14,164
But now we're a little nervy, of course,
'cause we don't know what anyone will think.

276
00:19:14,188 --> 00:19:16,308
But it's just like a dream
come true, the whole thing.

277
00:19:16,448 --> 00:19:17,928
This might just work.

278
00:19:22,588 --> 00:19:24,588
It was just time for us
to make an album

279
00:19:24,758 --> 00:19:27,548
about hope and love
and togetherness,

280
00:19:27,718 --> 00:19:29,558
you know, embracing all
the sounds that we love

281
00:19:29,728 --> 00:19:31,378
and all the styles that we like.

282
00:19:32,208 --> 00:19:35,128
I think some people will just say, "Oh,
fuck off. This is hippy nonsense."

283
00:19:35,208 --> 00:19:36,598
But that's okay.

284
00:19:36,778 --> 00:19:38,274
This is the first tour where
we feel like,

285
00:19:38,298 --> 00:19:39,948
yeah, that's how we want
it to be.

286
00:19:40,738 --> 00:19:42,658
I think every other tour
up to this one has been,

287
00:19:42,828 --> 00:19:45,658
"One day we'll have this kind
of song and production."

288
00:19:45,828 --> 00:19:47,668
This Head Full of Dreams
tour is the first time

289
00:19:47,788 --> 00:19:49,748
we've got what we were
always hoping for.

290
00:20:38,228 --> 00:20:41,798
There's four of you in
the band. Who's in charge? Who's the boss?

291
00:20:41,968 --> 00:20:44,238
We have a fifth member
called Phil.

292
00:20:44,408 --> 00:20:47,148
Nobody sees him
because he's too good-looking,

293
00:20:47,328 --> 00:20:49,888
and he pulls all the strings.

294
00:20:50,068 --> 00:20:52,328
- Does he actually exist?
- Phil is real.

295
00:20:52,498 --> 00:20:54,458
I would like
to rephrase that. Phil is real.

296
00:20:54,638 --> 00:20:57,378
He's... Can you not see him?

297
00:20:57,548 --> 00:20:59,338
He's sitting right there.

298
00:20:59,508 --> 00:21:01,378
He's next to Guy.
He doesn't speak much.

299
00:21:01,558 --> 00:21:03,338
No, he doesn't show up on TV.

300
00:21:04,338 --> 00:21:06,688
So, Phil Harvey was our
first manager.

301
00:21:06,868 --> 00:21:09,478
He paid for us to record
our first EP.

302
00:21:10,128 --> 00:21:12,518
He's a sort of outsider
on the inside.

303
00:21:12,698 --> 00:21:16,918
He's able to view with a much better
perspective than sometimes we can.

304
00:21:17,088 --> 00:21:19,048
The difference between
having four and five people

305
00:21:19,098 --> 00:21:22,878
in a democracy is actually
crucial, because someone will win.

306
00:21:23,058 --> 00:21:24,878
You don't get a stalemate.

307
00:21:25,278 --> 00:21:28,888
It's probably even healthier than a
democracy because no one can be voted out.

308
00:21:29,058 --> 00:21:30,538
There's no elections.

309
00:21:30,718 --> 00:21:33,588
It's like a democratic
five-way dictatorship.

310
00:21:34,978 --> 00:21:36,898
So, how much for... 400 each.

311
00:21:37,068 --> 00:21:38,808
400 each? Yes, sir.

312
00:21:38,988 --> 00:21:42,118
What? You make it done sir,
three pieces for...

313
00:21:42,288 --> 00:21:44,338
1,000 four. Let's call it 600.

314
00:21:45,078 --> 00:21:46,988
Take. 1,000.That's terrible negotiating.

315
00:21:49,388 --> 00:21:52,388
The important thing when you're in a new
city is not to look like a tourist.

316
00:21:52,518 --> 00:21:53,598
Right, Phil? Just blend in.

317
00:21:53,698 --> 00:21:54,898
Just make sure you're prepared

318
00:21:54,958 --> 00:21:56,088
for any eventuality.

319
00:21:56,258 --> 00:21:58,568
Yeah, be safe
and be discreet and...

320
00:21:58,738 --> 00:22:01,008
I think we'll be okay. All right?

321
00:22:01,178 --> 00:22:04,708
So, me and Chris, we got sent to the
same boarding school when we were 13.

322
00:22:05,228 --> 00:22:08,618
That was how we met, and, uh, he's
been my best friend ever since.

323
00:22:09,628 --> 00:22:11,838
I think, subconsciously,
I spent a long time,

324
00:22:12,018 --> 00:22:13,888
almost in denial
of my upbringing.

325
00:22:14,538 --> 00:22:16,238
I was raised very religious,

326
00:22:16,718 --> 00:22:18,848
so there's a sort of
constant self-doubt.

327
00:22:19,938 --> 00:22:22,638
I came from a very
small school in Devon

328
00:22:22,808 --> 00:22:25,678
and then went to this
much bigger school in Dorset.

329
00:22:25,858 --> 00:22:29,078
There, I realized,
"Oh, this is gonna be tough."

330
00:22:29,248 --> 00:22:30,754
In retrospect,
it was great preparation

331
00:22:30,778 --> 00:22:34,428
for being in Coldplay,
the abuse.

332
00:22:34,608 --> 00:22:37,518
I think people
were pretty fucking mean to him.

333
00:22:37,698 --> 00:22:41,438
I think there was also a
certain vulnerability about him.

334
00:22:41,608 --> 00:22:45,358
There was a few guys in my year who
seemed to have it a bit more together

335
00:22:45,528 --> 00:22:47,398
and were twice as big
as everybody else,

336
00:22:47,578 --> 00:22:50,578
and one of them was this guy
Phil with the most perfect hair.

337
00:22:50,748 --> 00:22:52,928
And he basically took pity
on me, I think.

338
00:22:53,708 --> 00:22:57,628
We were in a couple of bands together
at school, but I never lasted long.

339
00:22:57,798 --> 00:23:01,288
I wanted it so badly,
but I just had zero talent.

340
00:23:01,458 --> 00:23:03,718
Our blues band
was called the Rocking Honkies,

341
00:23:03,898 --> 00:23:05,638
and it was as bad as it sounds.

342
00:23:05,808 --> 00:23:08,068
We're gonna go backstage
with the Honkies.

343
00:23:08,248 --> 00:23:09,548
Add your comments on it.

344
00:23:09,728 --> 00:23:12,298
Well, Tim, we're the
rocking, tonking,

345
00:23:12,468 --> 00:23:16,078
rocking, tonking,
rocking, fucking honkies.

346
00:23:20,778 --> 00:23:23,568
Chris Martin on the piano!

347
00:23:23,738 --> 00:23:28,358
We know each other so well now that
we know what buttons not to push.

348
00:23:28,528 --> 00:23:32,188
Honestly, I feel better friends with
the four of them now than I ever have.

349
00:23:32,358 --> 00:23:34,488
Chris kind of explained it
to me the other day,

350
00:23:34,668 --> 00:23:37,468
'cause we had a band meeting, and he
said, "It's really nice nowadays",

351
00:23:37,628 --> 00:23:40,954
I know when I don't have to say anything
'cause I know when Will's gonna say something,

352
00:23:40,978 --> 00:23:42,538
"I know when Guy's gonna
say something."

353
00:23:42,628 --> 00:23:45,288
So, major disagreements
are rare.

354
00:23:46,028 --> 00:23:49,678
We've had our moments as a
band, but we came through them.

355
00:23:49,858 --> 00:23:53,768
A four-way marriage is a
tricky proposition.

356
00:23:53,948 --> 00:23:57,468
It's difficult because we work so hard on
keeping each other happy, the four of us.

357
00:23:57,648 --> 00:24:00,258
But sometimes
things do need to be said,

358
00:24:00,428 --> 00:24:03,568
and I've learnt over the years
that that has to be me,

359
00:24:03,738 --> 00:24:07,528
the sort of unofficial
"spanner in the works thrower."

360
00:24:12,488 --> 00:24:14,968
What songs are going
on A Head Full Of Dreams?

361
00:24:15,138 --> 00:24:16,668
I think we all agree that...

362
00:24:17,748 --> 00:24:19,228
we might not all be
in agreement.

363
00:24:21,018 --> 00:24:23,978
But I think there are
eight songs

364
00:24:24,148 --> 00:24:27,458
which I would like to think that we
won't have any disagreement about.

365
00:24:27,628 --> 00:24:30,548
- Yes.
- This might be too much for me.

366
00:24:30,718 --> 00:24:32,508
Okay.

367
00:24:32,678 --> 00:24:36,598
I'm worried that we might be about
to really piss each other off.

368
00:24:36,768 --> 00:24:39,038
We've gotta be honest.
This week we can't...

369
00:24:39,208 --> 00:24:43,128
- We have to have this.
- All right. What are they?

370
00:24:43,298 --> 00:24:45,998
My feeling is
"Hymn for the Weekend."

371
00:24:46,168 --> 00:24:48,218
- All agreed? Agreed?
- Agreed.

372
00:24:48,388 --> 00:24:49,804
- Carried, carried.
- Yeah.

373
00:24:49,828 --> 00:24:51,308
"Everglow"?

374
00:24:51,478 --> 00:24:53,698
Agreed.

375
00:24:53,878 --> 00:24:55,268
"Amazing Day."

376
00:25:00,968 --> 00:25:04,228
But I don't wanna be a dick. My
part is to keep the band together.

377
00:25:04,408 --> 00:25:06,498
Of course, but...
I'll do whatever you say.

378
00:25:06,668 --> 00:25:08,864
I'm not gonna walk out
of the band just because...

379
00:25:08,888 --> 00:25:10,978
So, that is on the definites.

380
00:25:11,148 --> 00:25:12,524
"Up and Up." That's on my definites.

381
00:25:12,548 --> 00:25:14,678
I would like it
on there.

382
00:25:14,848 --> 00:25:19,028
It has to be, really, because that's
an example of a crucial story bit.

383
00:25:19,208 --> 00:25:21,558
Well, we've definitely
made an EP.

384
00:25:22,558 --> 00:25:25,728
None of us are
particularly confrontational,

385
00:25:25,908 --> 00:25:28,348
but sometimes
it can absolutely be fraught

386
00:25:28,518 --> 00:25:29,958
and there are
definitely arguments.

387
00:25:30,128 --> 00:25:31,608
Everybody has a say, you know,

388
00:25:31,778 --> 00:25:34,738
that's the foundation
of our band really, is equality.

389
00:25:34,918 --> 00:25:37,918
We decided that
down in Camden from the outset.

390
00:25:38,568 --> 00:25:40,308
This is our area.
This is our area.

391
00:25:41,358 --> 00:25:42,618
I'll show ya.

392
00:25:42,788 --> 00:25:44,448
Just over there,
that road up there.

393
00:25:44,618 --> 00:25:47,668
Just up here is where it
all happened. It's our Cavern.

394
00:25:47,838 --> 00:25:49,238
This is where it began.

395
00:25:49,408 --> 00:25:50,994
- Camden?
- Yeah, at Camden.

396
00:25:51,018 --> 00:25:53,538
Beginning of
rock legend.

397
00:25:53,718 --> 00:25:55,588
- This was it.
- Wow.

398
00:25:55,758 --> 00:25:56,848
So...

399
00:25:57,028 --> 00:25:58,588
- 268.
- Yeah.

400
00:25:58,768 --> 00:26:00,848
- Been repainted.
- Looks a lot nicer.

401
00:26:01,858 --> 00:26:06,038
This is where we first started rehearsing
when Will first joined the band.

402
00:26:06,208 --> 00:26:09,168
My old flat
where Chris and I used to live.

403
00:26:09,338 --> 00:26:12,168
We are in Camden Road,
we're The Coldplay.

404
00:26:12,348 --> 00:26:13,868
Come on through,
I'll show you.

405
00:26:14,038 --> 00:26:16,358
- There goes Guy.
- To the left down there.

406
00:26:17,608 --> 00:26:20,008
- Who lived in there?
- This was Chris's room.

407
00:26:20,748 --> 00:26:22,428
- We played in here.
- Yeah.

408
00:26:22,748 --> 00:26:24,878
Basically we go through
a simple stretch routine

409
00:26:25,048 --> 00:26:26,578
while singing
some songs as well.

410
00:26:26,748 --> 00:26:28,514
I don't know if you can see
that where you are.

411
00:26:28,538 --> 00:26:31,628
This was Jonny's bedroom
and our band rehearsal room.

412
00:26:31,798 --> 00:26:35,668
Uh, Chris and I normally stand together.
We raise the right arm.

413
00:26:35,848 --> 00:26:38,458
Right one. Just bring it round
to the side.

414
00:26:40,768 --> 00:26:42,638
Did you just get
your arse out, Jonny?

415
00:26:42,808 --> 00:26:45,174
- It's pretty small, isn't it?
- It really is.

416
00:26:45,198 --> 00:26:47,288
For a full band and a bed.

417
00:26:47,468 --> 00:26:50,338
It's funny to think that
it all stemmed from this bedroom.

418
00:26:51,338 --> 00:26:54,258
A few days after the
Panic EP, we had our first rehearsal

419
00:26:54,428 --> 00:26:56,958
and on that evening,
I phoned up this promoter

420
00:26:57,128 --> 00:26:59,648
at the Laurel Tree in Camden
and said, "Can we have a gig?"

421
00:26:59,828 --> 00:27:01,788
Thinking it might be
in six, eight weeks' time.

422
00:27:01,958 --> 00:27:03,958
He said, "Yeah, next Sunday."

423
00:27:04,138 --> 00:27:07,268
"What's your name?"
"We haven't got one yet."

424
00:27:07,438 --> 00:27:10,199
That was it. We had to think of a
name 'cause we were printing flyers.

425
00:27:10,228 --> 00:27:12,798
So, we came up
with a really terrible name.

426
00:27:14,408 --> 00:27:16,084
There's an old piece of paper
that Chris has.

427
00:27:16,108 --> 00:27:18,108
It's like a list of things
for the band.

428
00:27:18,278 --> 00:27:19,978
One is to get a drummer.

429
00:27:20,148 --> 00:27:23,418
Gig one, gig two, gig three,
gig four, get signed.

430
00:27:24,328 --> 00:27:27,638
It wasn't until Phil came along
that things started to change.

431
00:27:28,328 --> 00:27:30,898
I was always going down
to visit Chris down in London

432
00:27:31,078 --> 00:27:33,558
and I would share a bed
with Jonny.

433
00:27:33,728 --> 00:27:37,208
Obviously I came down for the first
show when they were Star Fish.

434
00:27:39,818 --> 00:27:42,088
It was in a total dive
in Camden.

435
00:27:50,658 --> 00:27:53,968
Our first gig in
the Laurel Tree was, I think,

436
00:27:54,138 --> 00:27:57,758
probably the most terrifying
experience I've ever had in my life.

437
00:27:58,838 --> 00:28:01,148
I felt so sick before it.

438
00:28:02,668 --> 00:28:04,888
I've never been so nervous,
I don't think.

439
00:28:05,068 --> 00:28:07,458
We expected about 20 people.

440
00:28:07,638 --> 00:28:11,158
It was sold out and we thought,
"Wow, this is a bit weird."

441
00:28:12,118 --> 00:28:15,428
That's the great thing about college,
you know. It made us look popular.

442
00:28:15,598 --> 00:28:17,988
Whereas, in fact,
they were just there to pull.

443
00:28:18,168 --> 00:28:19,568
It's really small,
isn't it?

444
00:28:19,728 --> 00:28:21,428
My pedal board
wouldn't fit on this stage.

445
00:28:22,258 --> 00:28:25,218
It's fantastic, though.
- It doesn't feel like 20 years ago.

446
00:28:26,388 --> 00:28:28,268
We did a couple of gigs
here, didn't we?

447
00:28:28,348 --> 00:28:31,218
I think this was just
one without a drum kit.

448
00:28:31,618 --> 00:28:33,528
Yeah. The band that was
supporting us had a kit,

449
00:28:33,698 --> 00:28:36,114
and so we asked them if we could
use theirs and they said yes,

450
00:28:36,138 --> 00:28:38,138
but then the promoter cut
their set short.

451
00:28:38,318 --> 00:28:41,448
Yeah. They got quite cross
and they took their kit home.

452
00:28:41,628 --> 00:28:43,708
I was pleading with them,
"Please, don't take it.

453
00:28:43,888 --> 00:28:45,928
This is only
our second-ever show."

454
00:28:56,678 --> 00:28:59,558
Absolutely terrifying in every
way, but incredible and wonderful.

455
00:28:59,728 --> 00:29:04,258
Our second gig as people,
but our first gig as Coldplay.

456
00:29:04,428 --> 00:29:06,778
- The Coldplay.
- Oh, The Coldplay, yeah.

457
00:29:06,958 --> 00:29:08,388
Where did our name come from?

458
00:29:08,568 --> 00:29:10,648
A friend of ours
had a band called Coldplay,

459
00:29:10,828 --> 00:29:14,878
and they decided they didn't like
the name, so we just stole it.

460
00:29:15,048 --> 00:29:17,838
They said it was a rubbish name
and they didn't want it anymore.

461
00:29:18,008 --> 00:29:20,618
Turned out to be a really hard
word to pronounce to people.

462
00:29:20,798 --> 00:29:23,318
You say you're in a band. "What's
the band called?" Coldplay.

463
00:29:23,488 --> 00:29:25,758
"What Goldblade? Cold Cut?"

464
00:29:25,928 --> 00:29:28,588
- It's really hard.
- Gold Blend.

465
00:29:28,758 --> 00:29:31,628
I still don't feel that
we've quite got the name right,

466
00:29:31,808 --> 00:29:34,978
but I think we might
be a bit late to change it.

467
00:29:35,158 --> 00:29:38,198
Every show seemed
like a milestone really.

468
00:29:38,378 --> 00:29:40,468
I remember the feeling
and the buzz in these rooms,

469
00:29:40,638 --> 00:29:44,038
the sweat dripping off the ceiling,
smoke, and the sticky floors.

470
00:29:44,508 --> 00:29:46,468
The toilet circuit,
as it's known,

471
00:29:46,648 --> 00:29:49,818
that kind of made us realize,
this is gonna be hard work.

472
00:29:49,998 --> 00:29:52,478
You do have to put
the time and effort into it.

473
00:29:52,648 --> 00:29:54,998
We were prepared to do that
for as long as it took,

474
00:29:55,178 --> 00:29:57,218
just carrying on
and getting skanked

475
00:29:57,398 --> 00:30:00,658
by money-grabbing,
shady Camden promoters.

476
00:30:00,838 --> 00:30:03,448
I think in the back of my head,
I must've been thinking,

477
00:30:03,618 --> 00:30:05,798
"Yeah, I'd like to be
involved in this."

478
00:30:05,968 --> 00:30:08,644
And then I remember Chris telling me
how they were getting ripped off,

479
00:30:08,668 --> 00:30:11,498
and I thought,
"Maybe I could do a better job."

480
00:30:11,668 --> 00:30:14,278
He dropped out of university
to come and manage us,

481
00:30:14,458 --> 00:30:16,938
which was an extraordinarily
selfless move.

482
00:30:17,108 --> 00:30:19,328
Then it went to the next level.

483
00:30:19,508 --> 00:30:22,134
Deep in the lair of rock and
roll, we find Mr. William Champion.

484
00:30:22,158 --> 00:30:23,898
- Bit nervous?
- Uh, little bit.

485
00:30:24,078 --> 00:30:26,468
- Where's the Harvey character?
- Where?

486
00:30:26,638 --> 00:30:29,224
I think I took it pretty seriously
from the moment I came on board.

487
00:30:29,248 --> 00:30:32,908
I had a book, I remember
called "How to Manage a Band."

488
00:30:33,078 --> 00:30:35,168
I had the longest list of people
to approach,

489
00:30:35,348 --> 00:30:38,958
but no one wanted to take my call
and I was quite down on myself.

490
00:30:39,398 --> 00:30:42,438
I think what kept us going was
the songs kept getting better,

491
00:30:42,618 --> 00:30:44,358
the shows kept getting better.

492
00:30:44,528 --> 00:30:46,968
I think Chris always had enough
self-belief for all of us,

493
00:30:47,138 --> 00:30:48,798
you know what I mean?

494
00:30:48,968 --> 00:30:51,358
The Falcon was the first time
that Steve Lamacq came.

495
00:30:51,538 --> 00:30:54,538
Fuck me. Steve Lamacq's in the
audience, so we're, like, wow.

496
00:30:54,718 --> 00:30:57,458
He's like the Yoda of radio
in Britain.

497
00:30:57,628 --> 00:30:59,808
He came to us
before anybody else.

498
00:30:59,978 --> 00:31:02,739
I couldn't believe it. I started sweating.
Steve Lamacq, Steve Lamacq.

499
00:31:02,898 --> 00:31:04,418
I remember Lamacq calling me.

500
00:31:04,588 --> 00:31:06,394
"Phil, this is the first
time I've ever offered"

501
00:31:06,418 --> 00:31:09,028
a Radio 1 evening session
to an unsigned act.

502
00:31:09,208 --> 00:31:10,638
"Are you guys up for it?"

503
00:31:10,818 --> 00:31:12,178
- Sorry, mate, thank you.
- Cheers.

504
00:31:12,248 --> 00:31:15,948
Got accosted
by some autograph hunters.

505
00:31:16,128 --> 00:31:19,014
They weren't looking for our autograph.
They were looking for Bryan Ferry's.

506
00:31:19,038 --> 00:31:20,388
Apparently, he lives round here.

507
00:31:28,268 --> 00:31:30,138
It's Lamacq
Live from Radio 1,

508
00:31:30,318 --> 00:31:32,618
and we can go across now
to our Maida Vale studios.

509
00:31:32,798 --> 00:31:34,888
Hello, Coldplay?

510
00:31:35,058 --> 00:31:36,774
- Hello, Steve.
- All right, Steve.

511
00:31:36,798 --> 00:31:38,424
You had a single out,
didn't you?

512
00:31:38,448 --> 00:31:40,008
I didn't even know
you had a record out.

513
00:31:40,108 --> 00:31:41,978
We put it
in your pigeonhole.

514
00:31:42,148 --> 00:31:42,938
You didn't listen to it, you bastard.

515
00:31:43,108 --> 00:31:44,808
I'm not gonna say that.

516
00:31:44,978 --> 00:31:47,678
What's the first song
you're gonna do?

517
00:31:47,858 --> 00:31:49,654
We're gonna do a song called
"Bigger Stronger," which was our single in May.

518
00:31:49,678 --> 00:31:51,338
It might've passed
people by.

519
00:31:51,508 --> 00:31:53,638
All right, it's Coldplay then,
live on Radio 1.

520
00:31:53,818 --> 00:31:55,038
Thank you, Steve.

521
00:32:13,578 --> 00:32:15,488
It was a really intense
period of time

522
00:32:15,668 --> 00:32:18,578
because we were so determined
to not fail.

523
00:32:18,758 --> 00:32:21,148
We just weren't gonna give up
until we got somewhere

524
00:32:21,318 --> 00:32:23,888
and made an album
and got a record deal.

525
00:32:24,068 --> 00:32:26,018
I could tell the songs...
They were real songs,

526
00:32:26,198 --> 00:32:27,978
and I just thought,

527
00:32:28,158 --> 00:32:30,558
"Okay, this could be something
that becomes part of my life."

528
00:32:30,638 --> 00:32:33,638
And then within a few weeks,
it was everything.

529
00:32:35,288 --> 00:32:37,688
I was in the bathroom
in my mum and dad's house,

530
00:32:37,858 --> 00:32:38,858
reading the NME.

531
00:32:39,038 --> 00:32:41,688
It said "20 New Bands for 1999."

532
00:32:41,868 --> 00:32:43,998
And sure enough
there was Muse, Elbow,

533
00:32:44,168 --> 00:32:46,038
Gay Dad, Bellatrix,

534
00:32:46,218 --> 00:32:48,568
and then it came to Coldplay
and I fainted, basically.

535
00:32:48,738 --> 00:32:50,738
Yeah, Chris fell off the toilet.

536
00:32:50,918 --> 00:32:53,698
I basically had a Doc Brown
from Back to the Future moment.

537
00:32:53,878 --> 00:32:55,918
And I called Will,
I called Jon, I called Guy.

538
00:32:56,098 --> 00:32:57,788
I was like,
"Have you seen this?"

539
00:32:57,968 --> 00:33:00,748
It said, "Bigger Stronger"
was their no-key debut release.

540
00:33:00,928 --> 00:33:03,798
Expect copies of it to be worth a
small mortgage come Christmas."

541
00:33:03,968 --> 00:33:05,408
Fucking hell, man.

542
00:33:05,578 --> 00:33:08,238
One paragraph changed
our entire lives.

543
00:33:08,408 --> 00:33:11,808
The next show after
that NMEtip...

544
00:33:11,978 --> 00:33:14,638
I just remember it
being rammed wall-to-wall.

545
00:33:17,418 --> 00:33:19,558
Things happened
really quick after that.

546
00:33:19,728 --> 00:33:22,144
Loads of different record companies,
the ones that had stonewalled me,

547
00:33:22,168 --> 00:33:24,468
they all came back and said,
"Oh, found your demo again."

548
00:33:24,648 --> 00:33:25,778
It was amazing.

549
00:33:25,948 --> 00:33:28,558
Yeah, April 15, 1999,

550
00:33:28,738 --> 00:33:30,738
we signed, didn't we,
in Trafalgar Square.

551
00:33:30,908 --> 00:33:33,568
We got loads of offers, but it
was always gonna be Parlophone,

552
00:33:33,738 --> 00:33:35,218
the home of the Beatles.

553
00:33:35,398 --> 00:33:37,968
And they had Radiohead,
they had Supergrass.

554
00:33:38,138 --> 00:33:39,438
I remember it very well,

555
00:33:39,618 --> 00:33:41,358
the feeling of,
"We have something now."

556
00:33:41,528 --> 00:33:45,708
But it goes back to Chris's
list. It was a tick done.

557
00:33:45,888 --> 00:33:47,888
Now let's get on
with the important work.

558
00:33:48,628 --> 00:33:50,058
I definitely don't remember

559
00:33:50,238 --> 00:33:52,538
it being a sense of,
wow, we've made it.

560
00:33:52,718 --> 00:33:55,238
It was more like a sense of,
okay, this is the beginning.

561
00:33:59,728 --> 00:34:01,288
Yeah, boys.

562
00:34:27,188 --> 00:34:30,318
We did our first UK tour
with seven guys on a bus.

563
00:34:30,498 --> 00:34:32,628
We couldn't believe our luck.

564
00:34:32,798 --> 00:34:35,478
It's amazing to still be doing the
same thing almost 20 years later.

565
00:34:42,638 --> 00:34:43,744
It's been a constant evolution.

566
00:34:43,768 --> 00:34:45,468
So, it doesn't feel like

567
00:34:45,638 --> 00:34:47,948
we've suddenly jumped from
playing a small pub in Camden

568
00:34:48,118 --> 00:34:50,598
to a massive stadium
in Saão Paulo.

569
00:34:50,778 --> 00:34:52,648
I think sometimes
it's that gradual process

570
00:34:52,818 --> 00:34:55,778
that clouds your feeling
of quite how far you've come.

571
00:35:02,878 --> 00:35:06,228
But the scale of things going
on around us is absolutely immense.

572
00:35:06,398 --> 00:35:07,718
Hoppy, where's Hoppy gone?

573
00:35:07,838 --> 00:35:09,928
Would you come up
on stage a second?

574
00:35:10,098 --> 00:35:12,708
Everyone, this is Hoppy, he's been
doing our guitars for 20 years.

575
00:35:17,278 --> 00:35:20,198
He's been with us since we were
traveling around in a tiny little van,

576
00:35:20,368 --> 00:35:23,418
smaller than this stage
and playing to maybe 20 people.

577
00:35:23,588 --> 00:35:26,908
And all that time he's been with us and been
patient, and so have a lot of our crew,

578
00:35:26,938 --> 00:35:28,598
and we wanna send love out
to them

579
00:35:28,768 --> 00:35:31,248
because they work so hard
to make this thing possible.

580
00:35:32,168 --> 00:35:34,038
The crew have been incredible.

581
00:35:34,208 --> 00:35:36,969
There's been a handful that have been
with us from the very beginning.

582
00:35:37,998 --> 00:35:39,738
They're legends within
the industry now,

583
00:35:39,908 --> 00:35:41,738
which is wonderful.

584
00:35:43,088 --> 00:35:44,768
Everyone has
this conception of us,

585
00:35:44,918 --> 00:35:47,658
sort of like we've been made up
by a big record company,

586
00:35:47,828 --> 00:35:49,358
like some sort
of indie boy band,

587
00:35:49,528 --> 00:35:51,618
but we've done it all
ourselves really.

588
00:35:51,788 --> 00:35:55,798
Our manager's our best mate,
and we produce the record.

589
00:35:55,968 --> 00:35:57,278
That's what we get a buzz off,

590
00:35:57,448 --> 00:35:59,668
is the sort of homemade-ness
of it.

591
00:35:59,848 --> 00:36:01,458
But no one really sees that

592
00:36:01,628 --> 00:36:03,978
'cause they see the slick
TV adverts and stuff.

593
00:36:05,238 --> 00:36:07,378
So what other lyrics
could go on T-shirts?

594
00:36:07,548 --> 00:36:11,858
It'd be a bit morose to have "We
never change, do we?" Wouldn't it?

595
00:36:12,028 --> 00:36:14,118
That would be funny
if you wore it all the time.

596
00:36:16,118 --> 00:36:19,558
"Can anybody fly this thing?"
Good one, Hops.

597
00:36:19,738 --> 00:36:21,754
That's my favorite line
of any of our songs.

598
00:36:21,778 --> 00:36:22,958
Yeah, same.

599
00:36:23,128 --> 00:36:24,648
When you're on your first album,

600
00:36:24,828 --> 00:36:28,698
a 14.99 WHSmith globe is
about as big as production gets.

601
00:36:28,868 --> 00:36:31,958
But now we have, like,
a multimedia, 3-D thing.

602
00:36:32,618 --> 00:36:33,788
What's the scale?

603
00:36:33,968 --> 00:36:35,788
One to one.

604
00:36:35,968 --> 00:36:38,168
- So, the real thing will be bigger?
- Twice the size.

605
00:36:38,228 --> 00:36:39,758
Twice the size. At least.

606
00:36:39,928 --> 00:36:41,708
So, these are
the tickets we've sold.

607
00:36:41,888 --> 00:36:43,488
Pretty much everyone's
still there.

608
00:36:43,628 --> 00:36:46,538
We've just kinda kept
adding people along the way,

609
00:36:46,718 --> 00:36:48,068
one big family.

610
00:36:48,238 --> 00:36:49,548
Musically in the past,

611
00:36:49,718 --> 00:36:51,288
I think we felt
a lot of pressure

612
00:36:51,458 --> 00:36:53,378
to have everything
come from the four of us.

613
00:36:53,548 --> 00:36:55,158
We started collaborating
with people

614
00:36:55,338 --> 00:36:58,028
just 'cause it opened up
a new way of making music.

615
00:37:07,998 --> 00:37:09,608
Can they film this? Course.

616
00:37:09,788 --> 00:37:12,218
It's Chris's phone.

617
00:37:16,838 --> 00:37:18,878
We still have
that homemade philosophy,

618
00:37:19,058 --> 00:37:22,278
but now we have
a very open door policy.

619
00:37:22,448 --> 00:37:25,018
Basically if you show up,
you might get a shot.

620
00:37:25,188 --> 00:37:28,928
But it helps if
you're, like, a legend.

621
00:37:31,288 --> 00:37:33,108
Oh, that sounds so great. Thank you.

622
00:37:33,288 --> 00:37:35,118
Let's just do
that right now.Okay.

623
00:37:35,288 --> 00:37:36,834
The studio we recorded
with Beyoncé

624
00:37:36,858 --> 00:37:38,468
was actually my son's bedroom,

625
00:37:38,638 --> 00:37:40,818
so we had to make it look like
a studio a little bit.

626
00:37:40,988 --> 00:37:42,858
He wants me to do it
softer again.

627
00:37:43,168 --> 00:37:46,208
And just make her feel
as special as she is.

628
00:38:47,008 --> 00:38:48,488
It might be strange
for some people

629
00:38:48,668 --> 00:38:50,228
that Stargate are
producing a song

630
00:38:50,408 --> 00:38:53,318
which Noel Gallagher's on,
that Beyoncé is also on.

631
00:38:53,498 --> 00:38:55,628
Even for me it took a while
to get my head around it.

632
00:38:56,108 --> 00:38:59,288
Oasis was such a pivotal band
for us in the mid-'90s.

633
00:39:10,858 --> 00:39:13,274
So, it was just like, this
is called A Head Full of Dreams.

634
00:39:13,298 --> 00:39:15,078
It should be about
making dreams come true.

635
00:39:15,258 --> 00:39:18,438
And one of our dreams was
to have Noel play on something.

636
00:39:33,188 --> 00:39:35,838
Noel Gallagher, by his own
admission, is a bit of a grump

637
00:39:36,018 --> 00:39:39,588
and doesn't share my worldview
in any way at all.

638
00:39:39,758 --> 00:39:42,478
That's the whole point of the album.
It's like, everyone's all right,

639
00:39:42,628 --> 00:39:45,418
even the people that don't really
like the concept of this album

640
00:39:45,588 --> 00:39:47,858
have shown up to play on it.

641
00:39:48,028 --> 00:39:49,598
So, thank you, Noel.

642
00:39:50,728 --> 00:39:52,598
I noticed that
your kids were credited.

643
00:39:52,768 --> 00:39:54,988
Right,
for better or worse,

644
00:39:55,168 --> 00:39:57,624
if you want your kids to appear on
your album you have to strike a deal.

645
00:39:57,648 --> 00:39:59,258
First of all, they have
to like the song.

646
00:39:59,428 --> 00:40:01,958
Second of all, there has to be
maybe a pizza involved.

647
00:40:02,128 --> 00:40:03,698
It's basically bribery.

648
00:40:03,868 --> 00:40:05,568
That was so beautiful.

649
00:40:05,738 --> 00:40:07,178
Generally with
A Head Full of Dreams,

650
00:40:07,348 --> 00:40:09,464
we just asked anyone who was
around if they would sing.

651
00:40:09,488 --> 00:40:11,688
We wanted to try and embrace
all the things that we love

652
00:40:11,788 --> 00:40:13,528
and the people
that we think are awesome.

653
00:40:14,138 --> 00:40:15,708
Just the idea of inclusivity.

654
00:41:21,648 --> 00:41:24,648
You started off as four
friends just playing together,

655
00:41:24,818 --> 00:41:27,348
and you became the biggest
rock band in the world.

656
00:41:27,518 --> 00:41:31,048
I was wondering, what did
you lose in that process?

657
00:41:31,218 --> 00:41:33,478
Our drummer.

658
00:41:35,218 --> 00:41:38,098
Very early on, I learnt
that without the five of us,

659
00:41:38,268 --> 00:41:40,058
we just can't be Coldplay.

660
00:41:40,228 --> 00:41:42,968
I lost sight of
what makes a band a band.

661
00:41:43,148 --> 00:41:46,098
The only thing we have going
for us is the friendship.

662
00:41:46,838 --> 00:41:49,458
And the course of our band
could've dramatically changed

663
00:41:49,628 --> 00:41:52,678
because we basically kicked
Will out.

664
00:41:53,288 --> 00:41:55,978
It was kind of like the darkest
and worst point

665
00:41:56,158 --> 00:41:57,808
in our time together.

666
00:41:58,898 --> 00:42:01,638
The excitement, everything we'd
done was focused on getting signed.

667
00:42:01,818 --> 00:42:03,378
We got signed and thought,
"Oh, God."

668
00:42:03,558 --> 00:42:05,338
Yeah, what do we do now?

669
00:42:06,298 --> 00:42:07,668
I got to a
certain point whereby

670
00:42:07,693 --> 00:42:09,234
I didn't know enough about
how to play the drums

671
00:42:09,258 --> 00:42:11,778
in order to keep up with the
music that was being written.

672
00:42:17,218 --> 00:42:20,218
I certainly wasn't good enough
to go through the rigors of recording.

673
00:42:22,658 --> 00:42:25,408
Shall we leave it and
go on to another one? Yeah.

674
00:42:25,578 --> 00:42:29,318
We were working with a producer that
was very meticulous about perfection.

675
00:42:29,498 --> 00:42:32,108
And it was all about, "Will's
drumming isn't up to scratch."

676
00:42:32,278 --> 00:42:35,198
And we believed it,
you know, we believed it.

677
00:42:36,198 --> 00:42:37,588
Things got very difficult.

678
00:42:37,768 --> 00:42:39,108
Chris and I had a...

679
00:42:39,288 --> 00:42:42,988
I left the band,
which was absolutely miserable.

680
00:42:43,158 --> 00:42:45,508
I was just a bit of
a dick to Will,

681
00:42:45,688 --> 00:42:48,558
and, you know, we didn't know
what we were doing.

682
00:42:48,728 --> 00:42:53,258
So, Will left,
and we did some auditions.

683
00:42:53,428 --> 00:42:55,348
And I think probably
doing those auditions,

684
00:42:55,518 --> 00:42:58,918
it really kind of struck us
that this was awful.

685
00:42:59,088 --> 00:43:02,788
I just woke up and I was like,
"This is totally wrong."

686
00:43:02,958 --> 00:43:07,358
You know, we said, "Look, please
will you come back?" Um...

687
00:43:07,528 --> 00:43:08,878
And thank God he did.

688
00:43:09,058 --> 00:43:10,748
If we'd gone down
a different path,

689
00:43:10,928 --> 00:43:13,888
I just know that we would have
at some point failed.

690
00:43:26,468 --> 00:43:28,338
This is it. Woof!

691
00:43:28,508 --> 00:43:30,118
Coldplay!

692
00:43:30,298 --> 00:43:32,468
I am glad it happened

693
00:43:32,648 --> 00:43:34,948
because I think it was
an incredibly important lesson

694
00:43:35,128 --> 00:43:38,388
as to what we should
hold on to most of all.

695
00:43:38,568 --> 00:43:41,438
This is what we started,
this is what we're gonna continue.

696
00:43:41,608 --> 00:43:42,958
Will, Will.

697
00:43:43,128 --> 00:43:45,088
The drummer always gets
a lot of stick,

698
00:43:45,268 --> 00:43:47,918
if you'll excuse
the turn of phrase.

699
00:43:48,098 --> 00:43:52,878
If I've got any advice
to give to any aspiring bands,

700
00:43:53,058 --> 00:43:56,448
it's just don't fuck around
with your drummer.

701
00:43:56,628 --> 00:44:00,848
A band is a magic thing,
and everyone improves together.

702
00:44:01,018 --> 00:44:03,978
That's what's since given
Will his power.

703
00:44:04,158 --> 00:44:06,378
He's like the base of a statue,

704
00:44:06,548 --> 00:44:09,328
and without that,
the thing topples.

705
00:44:09,508 --> 00:44:12,288
The truth of it is that,
really, without the other three,

706
00:44:12,468 --> 00:44:14,778
each of us would be
kind of screwed.

707
00:44:16,038 --> 00:44:17,998
I just couldn't do it on my own.

708
00:44:19,078 --> 00:44:20,518
I couldn't do it.

709
00:44:27,138 --> 00:44:28,528
Jonny.Yeah.

710
00:44:34,488 --> 00:44:36,358
Great track. I love that.

711
00:44:44,328 --> 00:44:45,498
Well...

712
00:44:49,808 --> 00:44:50,988
This is great.

713
00:44:53,118 --> 00:44:54,818
Great. Thanks.

714
00:44:54,988 --> 00:44:57,908
Do you want us to speak French?
Yeah, that would be wonderful.

715
00:45:00,598 --> 00:45:03,608
Parachuteswas made at a time
when we had a lot of emotions

716
00:45:03,778 --> 00:45:07,178
without necessarily knowing what
they were or how to deal with them.

717
00:45:07,348 --> 00:45:09,218
Will's mum was really sick.

718
00:45:09,388 --> 00:45:11,608
None of us had any idea
how to help him through that.

719
00:45:11,788 --> 00:45:13,878
He didn't know how
to express it.

720
00:45:14,048 --> 00:45:17,618
She was ill for a couple of years and doing
really well, in fact, got much better

721
00:45:17,788 --> 00:45:19,838
and then unfortunately,
got much worse again.

722
00:45:20,008 --> 00:45:22,968
And it's a very strange time.

723
00:45:23,148 --> 00:45:25,018
She was in bands.
She loved music.

724
00:45:25,188 --> 00:45:26,588
It was her life, you know.

725
00:45:26,758 --> 00:45:29,198
It's telling that where
I went was to go

726
00:45:29,368 --> 00:45:31,108
and hang out with the band.

727
00:45:31,288 --> 00:45:34,158
I went up to their flat
and told them what was going on.

728
00:45:34,328 --> 00:45:37,288
I didn't really have any
kind of tools to deal with it,

729
00:45:37,468 --> 00:45:41,598
I think I just threw myself into this
extraordinary new life that I had.

730
00:45:41,778 --> 00:45:44,518
I mean, it's obviously
massively significant

731
00:45:44,688 --> 00:45:46,558
when you lose a parent anyway,

732
00:45:46,738 --> 00:45:49,258
but definitely more poignant
for the fact

733
00:45:49,428 --> 00:45:51,788
that it was something that
she was so passionate about.

734
00:45:51,958 --> 00:45:54,178
She died in May of 2000,

735
00:45:54,348 --> 00:45:56,878
and our album was released
in July of that year.

736
00:45:58,008 --> 00:46:00,008
You're speaking to us
in quite a nervous state

737
00:46:00,178 --> 00:46:02,488
because we're just
approaching crunch time.

738
00:46:02,668 --> 00:46:05,888
It's kinda make-or-break for us
in the next two weeks.

739
00:46:06,058 --> 00:46:07,838
We'd had quite a hard time
in the studio

740
00:46:08,018 --> 00:46:10,888
and our confidence
was kind of wavering a bit.

741
00:46:11,068 --> 00:46:12,808
We didn't really know
what we were doing

742
00:46:12,978 --> 00:46:15,978
and we didn't really know what
sort of band we wanted to be.

743
00:46:16,158 --> 00:46:18,288
We almost split up over
those songs.

744
00:46:18,458 --> 00:46:20,704
The amount of times we'd play
and go, "That was really good,"

745
00:46:20,728 --> 00:46:23,288
and then we'd listen to it
and one of us would get upset.

746
00:46:24,338 --> 00:46:25,558
Chris called us in and said,

747
00:46:25,728 --> 00:46:27,728
"Listen to this,
I've got this new song."

748
00:46:27,908 --> 00:46:30,608
And it was kind of acoustic-y and
sounded a bit like Neil Young,

749
00:46:30,778 --> 00:46:32,518
slow and countryish.

750
00:46:34,308 --> 00:46:36,348
Jonny played
a big, distorted riff over it

751
00:46:36,528 --> 00:46:38,008
and then it was born, really.

752
00:46:41,788 --> 00:46:43,878
We went through hell
recording that album.

753
00:46:44,048 --> 00:46:48,058
But when our confidence
or our enthusiasm was waning,

754
00:46:48,228 --> 00:46:51,108
it'd always be Chris that was like,
"We've gotta get this right."

755
00:46:52,498 --> 00:46:55,328
We care about we do
to a stupid degree.

756
00:46:55,498 --> 00:46:57,238
We care when people slag us off.

757
00:46:57,418 --> 00:46:59,738
We care about being told we're
not this and we're not that.

758
00:46:59,898 --> 00:47:01,858
There were so many
miserable hours in the studio,

759
00:47:02,028 --> 00:47:03,728
but it was all worth it
in the end.

760
00:47:03,898 --> 00:47:06,728
I didn't push for it in any way,
but it was a lovely gesture

761
00:47:06,898 --> 00:47:09,778
that the guys wanted to put a
little line in the album sleeve

762
00:47:09,948 --> 00:47:13,038
about the album
being dedicated to my mum.

763
00:47:13,208 --> 00:47:15,348
So, I'm grateful for that

764
00:47:15,518 --> 00:47:18,048
and it's something that
she would've been very proud of.

765
00:47:22,268 --> 00:47:26,008
All right, our album's out!
Our album's out!

766
00:47:26,178 --> 00:47:28,398
We never thought we'd see
the day, to be honest.

767
00:47:37,668 --> 00:47:39,337
Times are not that
great these days, but

768
00:47:39,362 --> 00:47:40,864
there is a beacon of
light now and again.

769
00:47:40,888 --> 00:47:42,588
The album itself is
called Parachutes,

770
00:47:42,768 --> 00:47:45,118
the single is "Yellow,"
and the band is Coldplay.

771
00:47:47,638 --> 00:47:50,248
Two boxes of Kitekat,
Coldplay Parachutes,

772
00:47:50,428 --> 00:47:53,118
some Hobnobs. Please.

773
00:48:09,838 --> 00:48:14,188
Mat, hi, it's day one
of this one-day video shoot.

774
00:48:14,358 --> 00:48:15,928
I feel good. I feel skinny.

775
00:48:23,498 --> 00:48:26,418
Another Top of the Pops
debut now for four London lads

776
00:48:26,588 --> 00:48:28,458
fresh from their very first headline tour.

777
00:48:28,638 --> 00:48:29,808
This is Coldplay.

778
00:48:32,988 --> 00:48:36,728
You guys sold over 35,000
copies in Holland already.

779
00:48:36,908 --> 00:48:39,868
Yesterday we just hit
one million in the world.

780
00:48:40,038 --> 00:48:44,088
Three years ago, girls wouldn't
even sit next to us at a bus stop.

781
00:48:44,258 --> 00:48:45,788
And now they surround us.

782
00:48:51,048 --> 00:48:54,358
The highest new entry and
a brand-new number-one album:

783
00:48:54,528 --> 00:48:57,138
Coldplay andParachutes.

784
00:48:57,318 --> 00:49:00,318
I don't know how to introduce this right,
but hopefully this time next year,

785
00:49:00,358 --> 00:49:02,368
you'll sing along with it
because it'll be a hit,

786
00:49:02,538 --> 00:49:03,798
and it's called "Yellow."

787
00:49:12,328 --> 00:49:14,068
Their debut
album Parachutes

788
00:49:14,248 --> 00:49:16,598
has clocked up an incredible
three million worldwide.

789
00:49:16,768 --> 00:49:20,778
Not bad for four lads
with an average age of 22.

790
00:50:18,828 --> 00:50:22,228
Merci tout le monde,
thank you so much.

791
00:50:24,798 --> 00:50:27,708
People always said, "You'll get
fed up with that song,"

792
00:50:27,888 --> 00:50:30,018
and I haven't yet.

793
00:50:30,188 --> 00:50:33,588
But I just...
I'm not sure if it's a classic.

794
00:50:35,108 --> 00:50:37,678
My name is Chris,
the singer of Coldplay.

795
00:50:37,848 --> 00:50:39,898
The multimillion platinum

796
00:50:40,068 --> 00:50:42,638
super-selling record of all time

797
00:50:42,808 --> 00:50:44,248
was Parachutes.

798
00:50:44,428 --> 00:50:45,818
And we need to do a follow-up.

799
00:50:45,988 --> 00:50:47,308
And in order to do
this follow-up,

800
00:50:47,468 --> 00:50:48,948
we need to work extremely hard.

801
00:50:49,128 --> 00:50:50,738
This is the nerve center
of Coldplay

802
00:50:50,908 --> 00:50:52,168
where everything gets done.

803
00:50:52,348 --> 00:50:54,438
Let's go in and
see who's doing what.

804
00:50:59,478 --> 00:51:01,088
Will.

805
00:51:01,268 --> 00:51:03,398
You're the drummer of Coldplay.
What are you doing?

806
00:51:03,568 --> 00:51:05,788
I'm just doing some work
on the new album.

807
00:51:13,628 --> 00:51:16,538
That has to be his favorite
sound, an orchestra tuning up.

808
00:51:21,718 --> 00:51:24,988
What's the verdict in there?
It seems like no one really...

809
00:51:25,158 --> 00:51:27,248
- We think it's great.
- Okay.

810
00:51:27,418 --> 00:51:29,664
- I mean, there's no room for mediocrity.
- No, absolutely not.

811
00:51:29,688 --> 00:51:31,794
- If it's shit, then tell me.
- It's fucking great.

812
00:51:31,818 --> 00:51:33,208
Keep going, man.

813
00:51:36,558 --> 00:51:39,438
But I'll say this even
if everyone hates it, you know,

814
00:51:39,608 --> 00:51:41,048
I wanted us to make a record

815
00:51:41,218 --> 00:51:43,268
that we could die happy
after we've made it,

816
00:51:43,438 --> 00:51:44,758
and that's what
I absolutely mean,

817
00:51:44,918 --> 00:51:47,098
and it sounds
incredibly pretentious,

818
00:51:47,268 --> 00:51:49,228
but there's no point
in being in a band

819
00:51:49,398 --> 00:51:52,098
unless you're trying to make
the best thing ever.

820
00:52:01,198 --> 00:52:03,458
The Phil-har-fucking-monic.

821
00:52:04,458 --> 00:52:06,118
The Phil Harvey-monic.

822
00:52:06,288 --> 00:52:08,264
- What?
- It sounds great.

823
00:52:08,288 --> 00:52:10,728
Just come in with attack,
as if you really love the band.

824
00:52:10,898 --> 00:52:12,988
Imagine.

825
00:52:13,858 --> 00:52:15,038
Here we go.

826
00:52:20,218 --> 00:52:22,778
I don't think we were satisfied
with the first album

827
00:52:22,958 --> 00:52:26,088
which made us work harder
for the second one, I think.

828
00:52:26,268 --> 00:52:28,878
There's no recipe
that we were trying to repeat.

829
00:52:30,918 --> 00:52:32,918
Oh, man, did you hear it?

830
00:52:33,098 --> 00:52:36,408
Did you hear Jonny's riff?
It's amazing. It's amazing.

831
00:52:36,578 --> 00:52:39,978
It's just Guy's bass playing that
lets the whole shop down. You know?

832
00:52:41,458 --> 00:52:44,498
'Cause you spend all your time
videoing them, that's why.

833
00:52:45,498 --> 00:52:46,718
Guy, please, man.

834
00:52:47,978 --> 00:52:49,848
There was much more gusto
on this

835
00:52:50,028 --> 00:52:52,678
to just forget
your sort of personal, mental,

836
00:52:52,858 --> 00:52:54,638
or physical health.

837
00:52:54,818 --> 00:52:57,818
We just wouldn't stop until what
we were trying to do was right.

838
00:52:57,988 --> 00:53:00,258
We could get someone else.
Pino Palladino.

839
00:53:02,128 --> 00:53:04,168
Is there a downside?
I mean, you as...

840
00:53:04,348 --> 00:53:07,998
Anyone who says there's a downside
to what we do is talking utter shit.

841
00:53:08,178 --> 00:53:10,178
Of course we stress
and we worry about it

842
00:53:10,348 --> 00:53:12,308
and we put everything possible
into it

843
00:53:12,488 --> 00:53:15,048
at the expense of friendships
and everything.

844
00:53:17,358 --> 00:53:19,578
But there's no downside
to being in a band.

845
00:53:19,748 --> 00:53:22,838
Is there a downside
though to being the face of the band?

846
00:53:23,368 --> 00:53:25,408
No.

847
00:53:25,588 --> 00:53:28,718
Chris has done nothing but think
about the album for seven months,

848
00:53:28,888 --> 00:53:31,458
striving for
absolute perfection.

849
00:53:31,638 --> 00:53:33,068
He doesn't sleep really.

850
00:53:34,288 --> 00:53:36,288
He's been so incredibly focused,

851
00:53:36,468 --> 00:53:39,818
probably to the detriment of a
lot of other things in his life,

852
00:53:39,988 --> 00:53:43,728
whereas I find it quite easy
to just walk away and go home.

853
00:53:43,908 --> 00:53:47,274
Especially when we're mixing and you have to
listen to the same song 80 times in a day.

854
00:53:47,298 --> 00:53:49,908
By then, it all sounds
exactly the same.

855
00:53:53,788 --> 00:53:58,048
Well, Chris just went in one weekend,
he was in the studio on his own,

856
00:53:58,228 --> 00:54:01,538
and then we all came back on the
Monday and he goes, "I got this song."

857
00:54:01,708 --> 00:54:04,408
And we just recorded it
straight down as it was

858
00:54:04,578 --> 00:54:06,798
and we kept that original take.

859
00:54:08,278 --> 00:54:10,148
This is new. "Scientist."

860
00:54:51,148 --> 00:54:53,108
It was just all there
straightaway,

861
00:54:53,278 --> 00:54:56,018
in such an immediate,
exciting moment.

862
00:54:56,198 --> 00:54:57,718
Best moment
of the entire record for me

863
00:54:57,898 --> 00:54:59,378
was when we'd come back
to this song

864
00:54:59,548 --> 00:55:02,248
and I just heard
through a wall this riff,

865
00:55:02,418 --> 00:55:05,158
and that's my favorite
bit of music on the record.

866
00:55:39,978 --> 00:55:41,718
Hello, boys.

867
00:55:41,898 --> 00:55:44,768
Before we went to America
we just thought, "Really?"

868
00:55:44,938 --> 00:55:48,468
"Are we sure? No one's gonna
like us there."

869
00:55:48,638 --> 00:55:50,248
There was no false modesty here.

870
00:55:50,428 --> 00:55:55,038
I had no fucking clue how to
promote a record in the States.

871
00:55:55,208 --> 00:55:57,518
I was lucky enough
to meet Dave Holmes,

872
00:55:57,688 --> 00:55:59,698
and he came on
as the US manager.

873
00:55:59,868 --> 00:56:03,478
Very quickly he was just
the overall mastermind.

874
00:56:03,658 --> 00:56:06,398
I was a fan of their music
from the first couple of EPs,

875
00:56:06,568 --> 00:56:11,058
but I'll never forget the day I got
a master copy of A Rush of Blood.

876
00:56:11,228 --> 00:56:13,448
That's when I really
did believe,

877
00:56:13,618 --> 00:56:16,148
"Okay, these guys have the
ability to go to great heights."

878
00:56:22,328 --> 00:56:24,328
Dave very quickly
took the reins.

879
00:56:24,498 --> 00:56:27,028
Now he's just the big daddy.

880
00:56:27,198 --> 00:56:29,158
They were up for
whatever it took.

881
00:56:29,338 --> 00:56:30,598
Let's take America.

882
00:56:30,768 --> 00:56:34,248
But initially
the reaction wasn't great.

883
00:56:34,428 --> 00:56:36,988
Modern rock radio station
would put on a big festival,

884
00:56:37,168 --> 00:56:40,218
and we'd be sandwiched in between
some of these really heavy bands,

885
00:56:40,388 --> 00:56:41,828
and it was pretty demoralizing.

886
00:56:41,998 --> 00:56:44,218
We'd have a lot of projectiles
thrown at us.

887
00:56:44,388 --> 00:56:46,828
Has anyone here got our album?

888
00:56:46,998 --> 00:56:49,178
Right, flipping you.

889
00:56:49,358 --> 00:56:52,308
Nice job, great. One person.

890
00:56:52,488 --> 00:56:54,268
I remember we played
a radio show in DC

891
00:56:54,448 --> 00:56:58,408
and someone chucked a CD at
Chris and hit him in the head.

892
00:56:58,578 --> 00:57:01,298
And came back in the dressing room
and he went, "Thanks a lot, Dave."

893
00:57:04,758 --> 00:57:08,068
I felt awful. Here I was telling
them that this was a good idea,

894
00:57:08,238 --> 00:57:11,288
and I'm sure they were like, "What
the fuck are we doing this for?"

895
00:57:15,948 --> 00:57:19,428
I think at the time we felt completely
different to everybody else,

896
00:57:19,598 --> 00:57:24,218
but I think that actually worked
for us rather than against us.

897
00:57:24,388 --> 00:57:26,149
If somebody said a year
ago we were gonna do

898
00:57:26,174 --> 00:57:28,012
well in America, we
probably would've laughed,

899
00:57:28,088 --> 00:57:31,308
because it's not the kind of music you'd
associate with the American music scene.

900
00:57:31,478 --> 00:57:34,398
They've never said no
to hard work

901
00:57:34,568 --> 00:57:36,878
and I'm sure there were times
that they hated my guts,

902
00:57:37,048 --> 00:57:40,798
and I'm sure there were times when they
were really wondering if this was worth it.

903
00:57:40,968 --> 00:57:43,968
Is this actually gonna result in anything?
But it did.

904
00:57:44,148 --> 00:57:47,278
Plowing across America,
it felt difficult at the time,

905
00:57:47,458 --> 00:57:52,068
but looking back on it now they were,
in many ways, the most rewarding days,

906
00:57:52,238 --> 00:57:53,798
the days I look back
with most fondness.

907
00:57:53,938 --> 00:57:56,938
We were just kids, we didn't
know what was gonna happen,

908
00:57:57,118 --> 00:57:58,898
but we never gave up.

909
00:58:03,688 --> 00:58:06,078
So, American success,
does it matter to you guys?

910
00:58:06,258 --> 00:58:09,778
As long as everyone that buys
one of our records is into it,

911
00:58:09,958 --> 00:58:13,698
we don't care if it's 10 million
people or 30 million people,

912
00:58:13,868 --> 00:58:17,228
as long as
it's over five million people.

913
00:58:20,178 --> 00:58:22,318
I'm not gonna sit
and talk about any bad times

914
00:58:22,488 --> 00:58:24,148
because there wasn't
any bad times really,

915
00:58:24,318 --> 00:58:26,628
not in the grand scheme
of things.

916
00:58:26,798 --> 00:58:31,718
But it was weird, you know, when it crossed
over into that mainstream media thing.

917
00:58:31,888 --> 00:58:33,628
We started our band together

918
00:58:33,808 --> 00:58:37,028
and there was a democracy and
this kind of concept of equality,

919
00:58:37,198 --> 00:58:40,068
and then it was slightly strange
when the press focused on Chris

920
00:58:40,248 --> 00:58:42,598
and his relationship
with Gwyneth.

921
00:58:42,768 --> 00:58:47,168
I think for a brief moment it
felt like, "Well, what about us?"

922
00:58:47,338 --> 00:58:52,088
But I think it's probably been
pretty awful for him at times.

923
00:58:52,258 --> 00:58:54,778
As amusing
as it might be at first,

924
00:58:54,958 --> 00:58:59,488
after a while, it can feel pretty
intrusive, pretty claustrophobic.

925
00:58:59,658 --> 00:59:01,414
The thing that you've
dreamt of your whole life

926
00:59:01,438 --> 00:59:04,618
has turned out to not be
quite as happy and as innocent

927
00:59:04,788 --> 00:59:06,928
as it might have felt.

928
00:59:08,668 --> 00:59:12,408
I always wanted to be in the NME.
That's all I really cared about.

929
00:59:12,588 --> 00:59:14,018
I think we all did.

930
00:59:14,198 --> 00:59:15,878
I never really wanted
any other recognition

931
00:59:16,018 --> 00:59:18,718
other than what we were doing
on a musical level.

932
00:59:18,898 --> 00:59:21,028
But tabloid attention,
as awful as it is,

933
00:59:21,198 --> 00:59:25,028
it's a sign that you're
sort of doing something right.

934
00:59:31,168 --> 00:59:33,908
When I get recognized,
I love it. I do.

935
00:59:35,348 --> 00:59:37,088
You know? That's why
we're at a cool level.

936
00:59:37,258 --> 00:59:39,788
Because the novelty
hasn't worn off

937
00:59:39,958 --> 00:59:41,528
and, you know...

938
00:59:43,308 --> 00:59:45,244
It's really exciting, 'cause the
only people that really recognize us

939
00:59:45,268 --> 00:59:47,048
are people who actually
like our record.

940
00:59:47,228 --> 00:59:49,068
I don't know how people
like Madonna or someone

941
00:59:49,138 --> 00:59:52,228
could handle that level
of fame because...

942
00:59:52,408 --> 00:59:54,838
you do have to just become
a recluse, I reckon.

943
01:00:06,548 --> 01:00:08,508
Okay, mate, you go first.

944
01:00:40,018 --> 01:00:42,198
Sorry, I didn't...
I'm sorry. I didn't...

945
01:01:34,598 --> 01:01:36,688
Music is just everywhere.

946
01:01:36,858 --> 01:01:38,558
The whole universe is music.

947
01:01:38,728 --> 01:01:42,128
You can just walk down the
street, it's a kind of music.

948
01:01:42,298 --> 01:01:45,608
There's always something
in the day that's inspiring.

949
01:01:50,348 --> 01:01:52,138
When we first started recording,

950
01:01:52,308 --> 01:01:54,698
Chris had a little
four-track cassette machine

951
01:01:54,878 --> 01:01:57,098
and that's how
we put things down.

952
01:01:57,268 --> 01:02:00,618
It's before we had mobile phones and
laptops and stuff to record on.

953
01:02:07,538 --> 01:02:09,018
I'll show you my book.

954
01:02:11,148 --> 01:02:12,808
Huh? Huh?

955
01:02:14,108 --> 01:02:16,898
Look at that. See? Huh?

956
01:02:17,068 --> 01:02:21,028
If I should lose that, we'd be...
What would we do?

957
01:02:21,208 --> 01:02:23,728
- What's in the book?
- Get Travis to give us some songs.

958
01:02:25,038 --> 01:02:26,428
Just girls' numbers.

959
01:02:26,608 --> 01:02:29,518
And designs for stage costumes.

960
01:02:32,388 --> 01:02:35,878
My way of making sense of the day
is to sit down and sing about it.

961
01:02:36,048 --> 01:02:38,398
I suppose
it's like writing a diary.

962
01:02:40,788 --> 01:02:42,798
No one really knows
where songs come from.

963
01:02:42,968 --> 01:02:44,748
You don't know how,
where, or why,

964
01:02:44,928 --> 01:02:46,968
or whether any more will come.

965
01:02:51,108 --> 01:02:54,808
All of our biggest ones
take 10 minutes,

966
01:02:54,978 --> 01:02:59,588
but you only get them by sitting for
hours and hours on the other ones,

967
01:02:59,768 --> 01:03:03,898
and then suddenly one comes
through and you just receive it.

968
01:03:08,818 --> 01:03:10,418
You might take it
to Jonny, Will and Guy,

969
01:03:10,468 --> 01:03:13,128
and they add their bits
and it's like a production line.

970
01:03:14,998 --> 01:03:18,958
And sometimes they say, okay,
and sometimes they say, no way.

971
01:03:19,138 --> 01:03:21,878
It's the "okay-no way" spectrum.

972
01:03:22,048 --> 01:03:24,138
When we hear a new song,

973
01:03:24,308 --> 01:03:27,268
Chris and I have a tendency
to be relentlessly positive.

974
01:03:27,448 --> 01:03:29,098
They're always like,

975
01:03:29,278 --> 01:03:31,384
"Yeah, I like it, yes.
I think it could be good. Yeah."

976
01:03:31,408 --> 01:03:34,588
And me and Guy
are sat, sort of fuming, saying,

977
01:03:34,758 --> 01:03:38,238
"Boy, this is a fucking waste of time.
Let's get on to the next one."

978
01:03:38,418 --> 01:03:42,328
It's difficult. If Chris comes in
with a song, if I'm just not into it,

979
01:03:42,508 --> 01:03:45,418
that is the thing
that I just hate the most.

980
01:03:45,598 --> 01:03:48,688
You're putting yourself in the
firing line for somebody to say,

981
01:03:48,858 --> 01:03:51,078
"Well, you go and write
a better one then."

982
01:03:51,248 --> 01:03:54,778
You've got the life or death of the song in
your hands, 'cause they're quite sensitive.

983
01:03:54,948 --> 01:03:58,568
But any kind of inkling that it's not
the best song they've ever written,

984
01:03:58,738 --> 01:04:00,478
means it tends
to get chucked out.

985
01:04:00,658 --> 01:04:03,528
I'd say my hit ratio
within the group

986
01:04:03,698 --> 01:04:06,098
is probably one in ten maybe.

987
01:04:06,268 --> 01:04:09,268
Any one of those fucking cunts
can veto it.

988
01:04:09,448 --> 01:04:11,618
It is heartbreaking,
but they're always right.

989
01:04:11,798 --> 01:04:13,678
I know that once we put a song
out in the world,

990
01:04:13,708 --> 01:04:15,684
we're gonna have lots of people
who say it's not very good,

991
01:04:15,708 --> 01:04:17,564
so it's probably best that
the five of us at least agree.

992
01:04:17,588 --> 01:04:20,068
We can't have one of us say,
"I told you it was shit."

993
01:04:20,238 --> 01:04:24,508
♪ Play him a song
that you think is fun ♪

994
01:04:24,678 --> 01:04:27,858
♪ He'll say, "I don't
really like that one" ♪

995
01:04:28,028 --> 01:04:29,728
♪ I'm scared of Phil ♪

996
01:04:29,898 --> 01:04:31,768
♪ I don't know why ♪

997
01:04:31,948 --> 01:04:35,118
♪ But not as scared as
all of us are of Guy ♪

998
01:04:40,518 --> 01:04:42,478
That's the one!

999
01:04:42,648 --> 01:04:44,504
♪ Sometimes it feels like
We're just their minions ♪

1000
01:04:44,528 --> 01:04:47,398
♪ Will and Guy and their
fucking opinions ♪

1001
01:04:52,008 --> 01:04:54,448
Oh! That's too good.

1002
01:04:58,098 --> 01:05:00,448
Generally, that's how it works.
Normally, either ideas

1003
01:05:00,628 --> 01:05:03,758
or sort of fully formed songs
always came from Chris.

1004
01:05:04,808 --> 01:05:07,458
Most often, he'd play it
to Jonny first,

1005
01:05:08,508 --> 01:05:10,458
Guy would have a listen,

1006
01:05:10,638 --> 01:05:13,208
and then it would come to me.

1007
01:05:13,378 --> 01:05:16,038
It's our job as,
you know, the rest of the band

1008
01:05:16,208 --> 01:05:18,518
to just basically sort of
not fuck that up

1009
01:05:18,688 --> 01:05:20,908
because it's really good.

1010
01:05:32,748 --> 01:05:34,358
We're gonna jump together.

1011
01:05:34,528 --> 01:05:36,188
We're gonna jump together.

1012
01:05:36,358 --> 01:05:40,578
We gonna... One, two,
one, two, three, go!

1013
01:06:22,668 --> 01:06:24,508
What's it like
being Jonny in Coldplay?

1014
01:06:24,668 --> 01:06:28,538
Uh, I don't know.
I've never been anyone else.

1015
01:06:28,718 --> 01:06:31,278
Well, Jonny is just my hero.

1016
01:06:31,458 --> 01:06:34,238
I spend my entire life trying
to pull him out of the shadows

1017
01:06:34,418 --> 01:06:37,248
because he's very humble
about himself.

1018
01:06:37,418 --> 01:06:40,378
I love playing live and I love
playing the songs to people,

1019
01:06:40,548 --> 01:06:44,648
but I love making new music
most of all, I think.

1020
01:06:44,818 --> 01:06:46,338
Okay, ready?

1021
01:06:46,518 --> 01:06:48,078
Two, three, four.

1022
01:06:48,258 --> 01:06:50,388
♪ Lovers ♪

1023
01:06:50,558 --> 01:06:53,348
Jonny was always very shy,
but with no reason to be,

1024
01:06:53,518 --> 01:06:56,048
because he was
the most talented.

1025
01:06:56,218 --> 01:06:58,178
That's the key
of our band, really,

1026
01:06:58,348 --> 01:07:01,788
the way that Chris's melodies
and Jonny's guitar sit together.

1027
01:07:01,968 --> 01:07:04,318
No!

1028
01:07:04,488 --> 01:07:07,618
Oh, fucking hell.
Is there a keyboard anywhere?

1029
01:07:07,798 --> 01:07:09,538
Our personalities
fitted together.

1030
01:07:09,708 --> 01:07:11,408
We couldn't have two of us
like Chris,

1031
01:07:11,588 --> 01:07:14,328
and we couldn't have two of us
like me. It just wouldn't work.

1032
01:07:14,498 --> 01:07:16,338
It's gonna be great
when we record it properly.

1033
01:07:18,328 --> 01:07:19,848
The songwriting
has changed, I think.

1034
01:07:20,028 --> 01:07:21,548
These days it depends
who's there,

1035
01:07:21,728 --> 01:07:23,608
because we live in different
parts of the world.

1036
01:07:23,678 --> 01:07:26,168
Did it get anything in there?

1037
01:07:26,338 --> 01:07:28,428
When we started recording
A Head Full of Dreams,

1038
01:07:28,598 --> 01:07:30,648
Guy, Will, and I
were in the studio in London,

1039
01:07:30,818 --> 01:07:32,778
working on a track
which was "Legends,"

1040
01:07:32,948 --> 01:07:35,298
and we could never quite
get it right.

1041
01:07:35,478 --> 01:07:37,698
I went to LA,
worked in Chris's house,

1042
01:07:37,868 --> 01:07:39,698
trying to get
a good guitar riff for it.

1043
01:07:39,868 --> 01:07:42,958
Just sort of
fumbling around in the dark.

1044
01:07:43,138 --> 01:07:46,878
He started playing
this melody, like, slow.

1045
01:07:53,798 --> 01:07:55,408
His guitar just gets me going.

1046
01:07:55,588 --> 01:07:58,108
I was like, there's something
amazing about that.

1047
01:07:58,278 --> 01:08:01,398
You could take the rest of the song away
and I don't think anyone would notice.

1048
01:08:05,678 --> 01:08:06,988
And that's what happened.

1049
01:08:19,698 --> 01:08:23,218
Okay, trust me everybody.
This is gonna be great.

1050
01:08:26,138 --> 01:08:28,308
Everybody go low.

1051
01:08:28,488 --> 01:08:30,268
Everybody get down. Shh!

1052
01:08:30,448 --> 01:08:32,578
Everybody go low.

1053
01:08:32,748 --> 01:08:34,358
Stay low.

1054
01:08:35,498 --> 01:08:38,278
One, two, one, two...

1055
01:09:06,218 --> 01:09:08,438
Thank you, everybody.

1056
01:09:08,618 --> 01:09:12,748
Okay, hands up, who wants "Adventure
Of A Lifetime" to be our first single?

1057
01:09:12,918 --> 01:09:16,488
Our friendship's really changed,
definitely, from the early days.

1058
01:09:16,668 --> 01:09:18,888
Okay, that's great.
So, we agree.

1059
01:09:19,058 --> 01:09:22,238
It's very free communication.
We kind of talk every day.

1060
01:09:22,408 --> 01:09:25,848
But, yeah, that can involve
a lot of locking of horns.

1061
01:09:33,858 --> 01:09:36,988
Often the atmosphere in the
studio is very tense, yeah.

1062
01:09:37,168 --> 01:09:40,258
And there's lots of laughter,
but it can get quite heavy.

1063
01:09:47,088 --> 01:09:52,568
Sometimes I get called in and there's,
like, stony faces and no one's speaking,

1064
01:09:52,748 --> 01:09:54,764
and I can tell they're in
the middle of some argument.

1065
01:09:54,788 --> 01:09:58,058
That's the bit of my job
that's hard.

1066
01:09:59,968 --> 01:10:02,058
Hey, Phil?

1067
01:10:03,318 --> 01:10:05,588
We've had a terrible fight.

1068
01:10:06,458 --> 01:10:08,538
We had a terrible fight.

1069
01:10:08,718 --> 01:10:11,214
Sometimes I look back and I
don't think I've changed at all.

1070
01:10:11,238 --> 01:10:14,158
I just don't. Not in the way
that Chris has changed.

1071
01:10:14,328 --> 01:10:15,768
He's evolved so much
as a person.

1072
01:10:15,938 --> 01:10:18,004
But then there's loads of things
that haven't changed,

1073
01:10:18,028 --> 01:10:20,558
like his ability to make me
laugh like no one else.

1074
01:10:20,728 --> 01:10:22,648
If you look at this Venn
diagram that I'm doing,

1075
01:10:22,818 --> 01:10:26,608
it splits the set into
old Coldplay songs,

1076
01:10:26,778 --> 01:10:28,428
new Coldplay songs.

1077
01:10:28,608 --> 01:10:30,454
What do you think about
singles to album track ratio?

1078
01:10:30,478 --> 01:10:34,218
Well, at the moment,
it's like a 60/40 split of new.

1079
01:10:34,398 --> 01:10:38,748
But if you minus the metric we took from
the first quarter against merch sales,

1080
01:10:38,918 --> 01:10:43,448
it's the basic fractal
that we learnt from REM and U2,

1081
01:10:43,618 --> 01:10:46,368
who we now refer to as RE2,

1082
01:10:46,538 --> 01:10:48,238
the band
that we're aspiring to be,

1083
01:10:48,408 --> 01:10:51,628
plus Radiohead and Beyoncé
and Jay-Z at the same time,

1084
01:10:51,808 --> 01:10:53,288
moving through to Young Thug.

1085
01:10:53,458 --> 01:10:56,548
That leaves us with this,
which is our set list.

1086
01:10:57,458 --> 01:10:59,068
There's definite pros and cons

1087
01:10:59,248 --> 01:11:01,378
to working with someone
that you're that close with.

1088
01:11:01,548 --> 01:11:04,248
Chris would be the first
to say that as well.

1089
01:11:04,428 --> 01:11:07,518
It can get a bit messy,
definitely.

1090
01:11:10,168 --> 01:11:14,218
Well, I've left the band
probably two times, I think.

1091
01:11:14,388 --> 01:11:18,568
The first time was 'cause I got really ill.
It was basically exhaustion.

1092
01:11:18,748 --> 01:11:20,958
I'll always remember. It was
the day of the Brit Awards.

1093
01:11:21,138 --> 01:11:22,918
The Best British Group.

1094
01:11:23,098 --> 01:11:25,398
- Yes!
- Coldplay.

1095
01:11:25,578 --> 01:11:28,148
We won Best Band and Best Album

1096
01:11:28,318 --> 01:11:29,968
and I'd had
this feeling inside me

1097
01:11:30,148 --> 01:11:32,448
that it should be
the best day of my life,

1098
01:11:32,628 --> 01:11:36,068
but I just felt
so totally exhausted.

1099
01:11:36,238 --> 01:11:38,588
It was not a happy memory
at all.

1100
01:11:38,768 --> 01:11:41,678
This is the weirdest thing
that's ever happened to us.

1101
01:11:41,858 --> 01:11:45,638
And we're really made up.
So thank you very much.

1102
01:11:45,818 --> 01:11:47,428
But then I came back

1103
01:11:47,598 --> 01:11:49,248
and we made
A Rush of Blood to the Head.

1104
01:11:49,428 --> 01:11:53,388
That was even more stressful
than the first one

1105
01:11:53,558 --> 01:11:57,128
and my relationship with Chris
in particular was quite strained

1106
01:11:57,308 --> 01:11:59,178
and something had to give.

1107
01:12:07,838 --> 01:12:12,578
I think the dynamic between singer
and manager is a specific one,

1108
01:12:12,758 --> 01:12:15,498
and it just didn't really
suit our friendship.

1109
01:12:15,668 --> 01:12:17,588
So I quit.

1110
01:12:18,368 --> 01:12:20,108
Phil got a bit burnt out

1111
01:12:20,288 --> 01:12:22,898
and wanted to do
something different.

1112
01:12:23,068 --> 01:12:25,938
He moved almost as far away
from us as he possibly could

1113
01:12:26,118 --> 01:12:29,418
by going to South America
and then Australia.

1114
01:12:29,598 --> 01:12:32,078
I think he was trying
to tell us something.

1115
01:12:32,248 --> 01:12:33,908
He wasn't with us for one album,

1116
01:12:34,078 --> 01:12:36,818
and that was
when we sorely missed him.

1117
01:12:36,998 --> 01:12:41,308
We made decisions that weren't
as good as they could've been.

1118
01:12:41,478 --> 01:12:43,118
We seem to sort of give up
before we've...

1119
01:12:43,258 --> 01:12:44,788
No, it's just...
Does that sound right?

1120
01:12:44,958 --> 01:12:46,828
I don't understand.
Is that the right pattern?

1121
01:12:47,008 --> 01:12:50,098
I don't think we were
very functional in that period.

1122
01:12:50,268 --> 01:12:52,798
I think we lost our way
a bit, yes.

1123
01:12:52,968 --> 01:12:54,928
I think we felt a lot
of pressure

1124
01:12:55,098 --> 01:12:57,148
to make some kind
of grand album.

1125
01:12:57,318 --> 01:12:59,498
There were strange headlines
in the press

1126
01:12:59,668 --> 01:13:01,978
about the EMI share price
and all of that stuff.

1127
01:13:02,148 --> 01:13:04,628
We didn't even know what
a share price was back then.

1128
01:13:04,808 --> 01:13:08,718
We spent day after day after day
of getting nowhere.

1129
01:13:08,898 --> 01:13:11,208
It came out in addictions
and it came out in tension,

1130
01:13:11,378 --> 01:13:13,858
and at the time,
it was a real struggle.

1131
01:13:14,028 --> 01:13:17,208
One year later and we've got
precisely nothing finished.

1132
01:13:18,948 --> 01:13:21,348
What a fucking cunt. Bollocks!

1133
01:13:22,738 --> 01:13:25,048
And you don't film
any of the arguments.

1134
01:13:25,218 --> 01:13:26,698
There was a lot of questioning,

1135
01:13:26,868 --> 01:13:28,628
like, "Should we do this,
should we do that?"

1136
01:13:28,738 --> 01:13:30,268
So, it's shite.

1137
01:13:32,308 --> 01:13:34,318
We have to start
all of it again.

1138
01:13:35,318 --> 01:13:38,228
We've lost the plot!

1139
01:13:38,408 --> 01:13:41,018
I was so worried about
what everyone else thought.

1140
01:13:41,188 --> 01:13:43,278
We just totally spun out,
you know.

1141
01:13:43,458 --> 01:13:45,018
So, what do you want me
to do, then?

1142
01:13:45,198 --> 01:13:46,848
In general,
the bigger you get as a band,

1143
01:13:47,018 --> 01:13:50,548
all the kind of machinery around
you gets bigger and bigger

1144
01:13:50,718 --> 01:13:52,318
and there's more things
to get in the way

1145
01:13:52,378 --> 01:13:55,248
of just four people playing
music together.

1146
01:14:00,118 --> 01:14:01,858
No, no, no.

1147
01:14:02,038 --> 01:14:05,298
You've gotta do that... thing for that verse.

1148
01:14:05,478 --> 01:14:07,648
That was the first time
we'd been in that situation

1149
01:14:07,828 --> 01:14:09,918
and didn't know how to deal with
all of that stuff.

1150
01:14:10,088 --> 01:14:12,528
If Phil had been around,
it might have been different.

1151
01:14:12,698 --> 01:14:14,698
That's just normal, is it?

1152
01:14:56,878 --> 01:15:00,308
You don't let me sing
any nouns or things.

1153
01:15:01,748 --> 01:15:04,798
Like anything that's a thing
is immediately banned.

1154
01:15:08,838 --> 01:15:11,328
And freedom. You hate
riffs, freedom and nouns.

1155
01:15:21,198 --> 01:15:24,858
I think the process was probably the least
enjoyable of all our records, definitely.

1156
01:15:25,028 --> 01:15:27,988
We were going through
some weird shit that time.

1157
01:15:28,168 --> 01:15:29,468
But Dave was amazing,

1158
01:15:29,648 --> 01:15:31,388
and luckily
we had the song "Fix You"

1159
01:15:31,558 --> 01:15:33,298
to get us through that period.

1160
01:15:34,568 --> 01:15:37,438
What's that you sing at the end?
What are the lyrics?

1161
01:15:37,608 --> 01:15:39,048
Tears stream down your face

1162
01:15:39,218 --> 01:15:41,788
when you lose something
you can't replace.

1163
01:15:41,958 --> 01:15:45,228
Tears stream down your face
and I, I, I, I, I...

1164
01:15:45,398 --> 01:15:46,668
Right.

1165
01:15:48,318 --> 01:15:50,098
- Yeah.
- Is that shit?

1166
01:15:50,278 --> 01:15:51,708
No, it sounds good.

1167
01:15:51,888 --> 01:15:53,758
I just was wondering
if it could be sort of

1168
01:15:53,928 --> 01:15:56,538
made into something
which makes a bit more sense.

1169
01:15:57,808 --> 01:15:59,628
Can you take a tiny bit
of reverb off?

1170
01:16:00,328 --> 01:16:01,808
That's cool, thanks.

1171
01:18:13,248 --> 01:18:15,508
That's the most self-conscious
I've ever been

1172
01:18:15,678 --> 01:18:18,118
about people
not liking what we were doing

1173
01:18:18,288 --> 01:18:20,648
because I wasn't really sure
if I liked it.

1174
01:18:20,818 --> 01:18:23,298
It was a strange period of time.

1175
01:18:28,348 --> 01:18:31,698
When you read something
that is critical,

1176
01:18:31,868 --> 01:18:33,308
you always give it
much more weight

1177
01:18:33,478 --> 01:18:36,138
than anything you read
that's kind.

1178
01:18:36,308 --> 01:18:38,968
And they can write
a whole article that's nice

1179
01:18:39,138 --> 01:18:41,318
and just have one line
that's a bit shitty,

1180
01:18:41,488 --> 01:18:44,058
and that's the only line
you'll remember.

1181
01:18:44,228 --> 01:18:46,408
Alan McGee of Creation Records

1182
01:18:46,578 --> 01:18:50,938
has come out and said that your
music was bed wetters' music.

1183
01:18:51,108 --> 01:18:53,238
How did you feel about that?
What was your response?

1184
01:18:53,418 --> 01:18:55,418
We wet our beds.

1185
01:18:57,118 --> 01:18:59,068
You can't please everybody,
right?

1186
01:18:59,248 --> 01:19:01,858
If that's what you're chasing
you're just gonna fail,

1187
01:19:02,028 --> 01:19:04,428
because it's just not possible.

1188
01:19:09,478 --> 01:19:10,738
Shucks.

1189
01:19:21,098 --> 01:19:22,748
It's okay. I get it.

1190
01:19:22,918 --> 01:19:25,708
I think it's important
to have figures of ridicule.

1191
01:19:25,878 --> 01:19:27,538
I don't mind being one of them.

1192
01:19:27,708 --> 01:19:29,644
The only time it's awkward
is if you bump into someone

1193
01:19:29,668 --> 01:19:32,058
who's made a joke about you.

1194
01:19:32,238 --> 01:19:35,198
In the old days, I used to
get really angry.

1195
01:19:35,368 --> 01:19:37,588
But I changed
my whole philosophy.

1196
01:19:37,768 --> 01:19:40,808
The only thing I complain about
in our job is that

1197
01:19:40,988 --> 01:19:42,574
if you're the sort of person
who worries,

1198
01:19:42,598 --> 01:19:45,288
you have so much time
to sit and worry

1199
01:19:45,468 --> 01:19:47,038
that you just worry
and worry and worry.

1200
01:19:47,208 --> 01:19:49,858
I spent quite a lot of years
being anxious

1201
01:19:50,038 --> 01:19:51,818
about the people
that didn't like us

1202
01:19:51,998 --> 01:19:55,038
without focusing enough
on the people that do.

1203
01:19:55,218 --> 01:19:56,308
It's hard to explain.

1204
01:20:00,268 --> 01:20:01,268
I'm not.

1205
01:20:01,348 --> 01:20:02,788
You are. Apart from...

1206
01:20:09,058 --> 01:20:10,888
No, I know, Guy.

1207
01:20:11,058 --> 01:20:13,798
But if I wasn't a perfectionist,
we'd still be playing the Falcon.

1208
01:20:13,978 --> 01:20:15,978
So? But you'd be doing it
very well.

1209
01:20:17,408 --> 01:20:19,628
I think everything
we've done is shit.

1210
01:20:19,808 --> 01:20:22,198
That's why I keep
trying to do new stuff.

1211
01:20:25,198 --> 01:20:29,338
That's my gut feeling. That's what
fires you up to do the next thing.

1212
01:20:29,508 --> 01:20:32,948
In the early days, I think there
used to be a lot more arguments,

1213
01:20:33,128 --> 01:20:35,338
particularly between
Chris and myself.

1214
01:20:35,518 --> 01:20:37,998
I was probably much
more opinionated back then,

1215
01:20:38,168 --> 01:20:41,438
which I think was probably
a huge pain in the ass

1216
01:20:41,608 --> 01:20:44,048
for everyone.

1217
01:20:44,218 --> 01:20:45,670
I don't know if I was
trying to get away from

1218
01:20:45,695 --> 01:20:47,154
myself or if I wasn't
comfortable with myself,

1219
01:20:47,178 --> 01:20:50,578
but I definitely had
a drinking problem.

1220
01:20:50,748 --> 01:20:55,228
It doesn't make for
the happiest of times.

1221
01:20:55,408 --> 01:20:57,798
Chris definitely
wears his heart on his sleeve.

1222
01:20:57,978 --> 01:21:02,978
Will, Jonny, and myself are
much more guarded emotionally,

1223
01:21:03,158 --> 01:21:05,288
and that's probably
why so many bands have split up,

1224
01:21:05,458 --> 01:21:10,468
because they haven't learned how to
accept each other's differences.

1225
01:21:10,638 --> 01:21:13,768
There was a time where I was like,
"Everyone needs to just follow my feelings."

1226
01:21:13,948 --> 01:21:16,364
At a certain point I was like,
"If this carries on like this",

1227
01:21:16,388 --> 01:21:18,468
then one of them's gonna leave."

1228
01:21:21,088 --> 01:21:25,348
It might be like, "We don't wanna deal
with this temperamental idiot all day."

1229
01:21:25,528 --> 01:21:27,088
♪ What a cunt ♪

1230
01:21:27,268 --> 01:21:30,528
Only 32 concerts to go
before the end of Coldplay.

1231
01:21:34,058 --> 01:21:35,984
They've got their own feelings
and their own lives.

1232
01:21:36,008 --> 01:21:38,228
Even though
they are much harder to read,

1233
01:21:38,408 --> 01:21:41,108
but they still have
highs and lows.

1234
01:21:41,278 --> 01:21:43,328
Fucking mic stand
keeps hitting me in the face.

1235
01:21:43,498 --> 01:21:45,408
It's like singing
into Naseem Hamed.

1236
01:21:45,588 --> 01:21:48,458
I'm learning how to deal with the
peaks and the troughs a bit better.

1237
01:21:48,638 --> 01:21:50,858
Please sort it out.Understood.

1238
01:21:51,028 --> 01:21:54,858
Every cliché that there is,
we've been through it.

1239
01:21:55,028 --> 01:21:57,468
We just never felt like
it was important to talk about.

1240
01:21:57,638 --> 01:22:00,558
Any group of five men
who have got to their late 30s

1241
01:22:00,728 --> 01:22:03,818
probably gonna have been through
depression, addiction,

1242
01:22:03,998 --> 01:22:05,428
divorce, everything,

1243
01:22:05,608 --> 01:22:07,218
even if it was five accountants.

1244
01:22:07,388 --> 01:22:09,478
We've been through
so much together.

1245
01:22:09,658 --> 01:22:12,298
But what's incredible to me is that
we've stuck together as a pack.

1246
01:22:33,068 --> 01:22:35,378
Everywhere we go,
whatever we're going through,

1247
01:22:35,548 --> 01:22:37,948
we can close the door
and sit down as a group

1248
01:22:38,118 --> 01:22:41,558
and either laugh about it
or commiserate or celebrate.

1249
01:22:50,038 --> 01:22:52,128
I could sit with
Jon, Will and Guy and Phil

1250
01:22:52,308 --> 01:22:53,608
just for hours right now

1251
01:22:53,788 --> 01:22:55,568
and just talk about anything.

1252
01:23:17,028 --> 01:23:20,898
I think that X&Y had been
a bit of a slog for all of us,

1253
01:23:21,078 --> 01:23:22,598
whereas getting back
in the studio

1254
01:23:22,768 --> 01:23:24,688
and doing Viva
became exciting again.

1255
01:23:29,338 --> 01:23:31,908
We definitely missed Phil and we
realized how much we missed him

1256
01:23:32,088 --> 01:23:34,438
when he came back into the fold.

1257
01:23:34,608 --> 01:23:37,348
Yeah, Phil came back in
in glorious technicolor again,

1258
01:23:37,528 --> 01:23:39,918
and that's when we bought
our own little place

1259
01:23:40,088 --> 01:23:43,448
and really tried to
reconnect as friends.

1260
01:23:43,618 --> 01:23:45,928
When I came back, I was
not coming back as a manager.

1261
01:23:46,098 --> 01:23:48,448
Dave Holmes was doing that
much better than I ever could.

1262
01:23:48,618 --> 01:23:50,708
I was coming back as a bandmate,

1263
01:23:50,888 --> 01:23:52,408
just doing all the fun stuff.

1264
01:23:52,588 --> 01:23:54,888
We finally got our band home.

1265
01:23:55,068 --> 01:23:58,158
That really brought
everything back into focus.

1266
01:23:58,328 --> 01:24:01,158
You know, it was
our own studio, our own HQ.

1267
01:24:04,118 --> 01:24:07,028
It was new territory for us. We
didn't really know how to behave.

1268
01:24:07,208 --> 01:24:09,688
I think we wanted a producer
to give us some ideas about

1269
01:24:09,858 --> 01:24:12,868
how we can present
the next phase of our band.

1270
01:24:13,038 --> 01:24:16,568
We wanted to find someone
who had the same effect on us

1271
01:24:16,738 --> 01:24:20,918
as Brian Eno did on U2 and
David Bowie and Talking Heads,

1272
01:24:21,088 --> 01:24:23,008
all these incredible bands
that we love.

1273
01:24:23,178 --> 01:24:26,658
And so we asked Brian,
"Do you know anyone?"

1274
01:24:26,838 --> 01:24:29,398
And he said, "Well, I wouldn't
mind having a go."

1275
01:24:29,578 --> 01:24:31,408
So, we were looking for
the new Brian Eno

1276
01:24:31,578 --> 01:24:34,408
and we found the old Brian Eno.

1277
01:24:36,798 --> 01:24:38,518
I think he only becomes
interested in a band

1278
01:24:38,668 --> 01:24:41,288
when they get massive
and terrible at the same time,

1279
01:24:41,458 --> 01:24:45,068
because he sees an opportunity to
keep you massive, but make you good.

1280
01:24:46,508 --> 01:24:48,988
It's very much like a having
a lovely, cuddly headmaster

1281
01:24:49,158 --> 01:24:52,248
quietly directing proceedings
without ever raising his voice.

1282
01:24:52,428 --> 01:24:53,624
He's like a sort of
wizard-type figure,

1283
01:24:53,648 --> 01:24:55,738
like a Gandalf or a Dumbledore

1284
01:24:55,908 --> 01:24:58,478
who comes in and sprinkles
magic all over the place

1285
01:24:58,648 --> 01:25:00,088
and then disappears for a bit,

1286
01:25:00,258 --> 01:25:02,258
or says,
"I really like that song,

1287
01:25:02,438 --> 01:25:04,918
but have you thought about playing
it backwards and in French?"

1288
01:25:12,138 --> 01:25:14,928
He's a relentless experimenter.

1289
01:25:15,098 --> 01:25:17,888
He's not afraid for it to sound silly.
He's not afraid to fail.

1290
01:25:18,058 --> 01:25:21,938
It can be sublimely ridiculous,
some of the stuff that we're doing.

1291
01:25:26,328 --> 01:25:28,638
He kicked me out of the band
for a few weeks.

1292
01:25:28,808 --> 01:25:30,898
At that time,
I could be quite strong-minded

1293
01:25:31,078 --> 01:25:32,638
in terms of it has
to sound like this.

1294
01:25:32,818 --> 01:25:35,468
So, he taught us to let everyone
get to the end of their idea

1295
01:25:35,638 --> 01:25:37,728
before any judgment is passed.

1296
01:25:46,528 --> 01:25:49,398
We went to Barcelona and we did
a sort of singing trip with him,

1297
01:25:49,568 --> 01:25:52,048
which is one of
the key elements on that record,

1298
01:25:52,228 --> 01:25:54,358
the sound of lots of
voices together.

1299
01:25:56,668 --> 01:26:00,708
The thing that sparked Viva La Vida
was the big sing-along chants.

1300
01:26:05,148 --> 01:26:08,328
The most purely joyous bit
for me is that communal thing.

1301
01:26:08,498 --> 01:26:10,898
What's the next one?
Oh, "Viva La Vida"?

1302
01:26:11,068 --> 01:26:12,768
Nothing can beat a chant live.

1303
01:26:15,028 --> 01:26:17,118
I love sing-alongs
more than anything.

1304
01:27:08,998 --> 01:27:12,048
Through the course of
the next album, Mylo Xyloto,

1305
01:27:12,218 --> 01:27:15,738
it was pretty clear that I was doing
well in some parts of my life

1306
01:27:15,918 --> 01:27:17,828
and really not well in others.

1307
01:27:18,008 --> 01:27:20,138
When we're on tour,
it's such a little bubble

1308
01:27:20,308 --> 01:27:22,318
that you become
institutionalized,

1309
01:27:22,488 --> 01:27:24,098
and this is why
a lot of front men

1310
01:27:24,278 --> 01:27:26,408
have problems
in their personal life.

1311
01:27:28,148 --> 01:27:29,718
Towards the end of the Mylotour,

1312
01:27:29,888 --> 01:27:33,018
it was a very difficult period
for about a year or so

1313
01:27:33,198 --> 01:27:37,158
of feeling completely worthless
and nothing to anybody.

1314
01:27:37,328 --> 01:27:38,938
I was just like,
I'm a mess, really,

1315
01:27:39,118 --> 01:27:42,598
because I can't enjoy
the great things around me.

1316
01:27:42,768 --> 01:27:46,728
Then, of course, I went through
a breakup with Gwyneth.

1317
01:27:47,908 --> 01:27:49,518
Listen, man,
I'm never gonna moan.

1318
01:27:49,688 --> 01:27:50,998
I'm grateful for everything.

1319
01:27:51,168 --> 01:27:53,608
But it was pretty touch and go.

1320
01:27:53,778 --> 01:27:56,828
It was evident that things
were very difficult for Chris

1321
01:27:56,998 --> 01:27:59,178
and that he was unhappy.

1322
01:27:59,348 --> 01:28:01,528
We sort of felt helpless
in a way, you know,

1323
01:28:01,698 --> 01:28:07,138
naturally it's distressing when your friend
is going through something so traumatic.

1324
01:28:07,318 --> 01:28:09,278
He was in a lot of pain.

1325
01:28:09,448 --> 01:28:12,628
Your mind can go to
the worst-case scenario.

1326
01:28:12,798 --> 01:28:14,498
I was worried about him
to the extent that

1327
01:28:14,668 --> 01:28:17,238
I was just really glad
to get a text in the morning

1328
01:28:17,418 --> 01:28:19,678
just to know he was okay.

1329
01:28:19,848 --> 01:28:22,808
And almost when he was
at his absolute lowest,

1330
01:28:22,988 --> 01:28:25,418
that was when we
started making Ghost Stories.

1331
01:28:27,208 --> 01:28:28,688
What we decided to do
on Ghost Stories

1332
01:28:28,818 --> 01:28:31,118
was to really be honest
about it.

1333
01:28:31,298 --> 01:28:32,688
I don't wanna bullshit,

1334
01:28:32,868 --> 01:28:35,778
because I need to sing it
to get through the day.

1335
01:28:37,608 --> 01:28:39,918
We all set up a studio
in Guy's house.

1336
01:28:40,088 --> 01:28:42,568
I think that was all
that Chris was capable of.

1337
01:28:42,738 --> 01:28:46,618
I remember it
as being a healing time for him.

1338
01:28:46,788 --> 01:28:50,098
I think he started to smile
a bit more around then.

1339
01:29:07,678 --> 01:29:09,858
He was having
a really hard time.

1340
01:29:10,028 --> 01:29:13,118
Yeah, we definitely felt
very protective towards him.

1341
01:29:13,298 --> 01:29:15,078
Chris's life
is different from mine.

1342
01:29:15,258 --> 01:29:17,258
He has very much a public life.

1343
01:29:17,428 --> 01:29:20,128
People know what's going on,
or like to think they know.

1344
01:29:20,298 --> 01:29:24,478
So we were worried about him
letting people in too far,

1345
01:29:24,658 --> 01:29:27,528
but this was what he wanted
to do.

1346
01:29:34,878 --> 01:29:36,888
I think Chris needed
to get it out of his system

1347
01:29:37,058 --> 01:29:40,238
and he needed to express
those things in those songs.

1348
01:29:40,408 --> 01:29:43,328
Of course, it was a very personal
album, and I like it for that reason.

1349
01:29:43,498 --> 01:29:46,628
I like it for its bravery
and its honesty.

1350
01:29:46,808 --> 01:29:51,418
What we wanted to do was to provide the
comfort that music has always given him.

1351
01:29:51,598 --> 01:29:56,168
That's the only way that we could really
help him was to be musical friends.

1352
01:29:57,468 --> 01:29:59,534
When some of us have been going
through harder times,

1353
01:29:59,558 --> 01:30:02,038
it's the band
that really picks each other up.

1354
01:30:02,218 --> 01:30:05,568
That really is an amazing thing
to have in your life.

1355
01:30:05,738 --> 01:30:10,218
Whenever anyone needs anything,
really, everybody's there.

1356
01:30:10,398 --> 01:30:14,448
It has evolved into
much more than just friendship.

1357
01:30:14,618 --> 01:30:16,968
We are more like a family now.

1358
01:30:17,138 --> 01:30:19,228
It was a challenging period.

1359
01:30:19,408 --> 01:30:23,538
It was a sort of journey from ultimate
loneliness to ultimate togetherness.

1360
01:30:25,628 --> 01:30:27,548
Come on, come on, come on.
Come on.

1361
01:30:27,718 --> 01:30:29,678
Bring it. Bring it in.

1362
01:30:29,848 --> 01:30:31,848
Phil, you wanna lead? Come on in.

1363
01:30:46,348 --> 01:30:48,998
It's been a long journey
up to this point.

1364
01:30:49,178 --> 01:30:52,308
The period that we've been a band has
been such a shifting time in music.

1365
01:30:52,478 --> 01:30:55,698
It's just not a time where you
can take something for granted.

1366
01:30:55,878 --> 01:30:58,528
I think we were very lucky
to have each other

1367
01:30:58,708 --> 01:31:00,798
and lucky in many other ways
as well.

1368
01:31:00,968 --> 01:31:03,798
I feel like I've been running
for years.

1369
01:31:03,968 --> 01:31:05,768
It's the first time
since I've joined the band

1370
01:31:05,928 --> 01:31:08,628
I've actually stopped
and looked back.

1371
01:31:08,798 --> 01:31:13,158
It really does feel like
a lifetime ago that we started.

1372
01:31:13,328 --> 01:31:15,718
Hello.

1373
01:31:25,518 --> 01:31:29,478
What's still the same is our
passion to make music together.

1374
01:31:29,648 --> 01:31:32,388
I wouldn't wanna do what I do
if I wasn't with my friends.

1375
01:31:32,568 --> 01:31:35,398
I think the gang mentality
is still definitely there,

1376
01:31:35,568 --> 01:31:37,788
but it's just the gang's
got a bit bigger.

1377
01:31:37,958 --> 01:31:42,268
That initial dream, at the time we had
it, that seemed like the final point,

1378
01:31:42,448 --> 01:31:45,318
and what I've realized is, actually
that's just the beginning.

1379
01:31:45,488 --> 01:31:47,668
I don't feel like we've got
to a final destination.

1380
01:32:17,438 --> 01:32:19,308
I don't want to stop playing.

1381
01:32:19,478 --> 01:32:21,658
I don't wanna stop this.

1382
01:32:21,828 --> 01:32:23,968
Don't want to stop this.

1383
01:32:27,748 --> 01:32:29,278
Let's turn it up.
Let's turn it up.

1384
01:32:29,448 --> 01:32:31,278
Let's turn it up.
Let's turn it up.

1385
01:32:31,448 --> 01:32:33,578
Let's turn it up.
Let's turn it up.

1386
01:32:45,728 --> 01:32:47,768
I really don't look back.
You know?

1387
01:32:47,948 --> 01:32:49,598
I just feel weird about it.

1388
01:32:49,768 --> 01:32:52,558
Like Phil said the other day,
because I was about to turn 40,

1389
01:32:52,728 --> 01:32:56,648
you should write a letter to your 17-year-old
self and tell him what you're up to,

1390
01:32:56,818 --> 01:32:59,478
'cause his head would
just explode.

1391
01:32:59,648 --> 01:33:02,918
The first few years, you try to make
yourself feel different to everybody else.

1392
01:33:03,088 --> 01:33:07,398
But in the last few years, I feel like the
journey's just been to remind me and us

1393
01:33:07,568 --> 01:33:11,578
that we're all in the same tribe on
the same little planet in space,

1394
01:33:11,748 --> 01:33:15,798
and more than ever, it feels
like that's what we're part of:

1395
01:33:15,968 --> 01:33:17,318
One big band.

1396
01:33:18,848 --> 01:33:21,588
So, what next? I don't know what's next.

1397
01:33:21,758 --> 01:33:24,588
We've been trying to get
to this place for a long time.

1398
01:33:24,768 --> 01:33:28,728
I'd be very surprised if there was
another conventional Coldplay album.

1399
01:33:28,898 --> 01:33:31,208
It feels like the finale
of the story,

1400
01:33:31,378 --> 01:33:33,728
or the end of a movie.

1401
01:33:33,908 --> 01:33:35,884
It doesn't surprise me
that he's saying now is

1402
01:33:35,909 --> 01:33:37,842
the end of an era, it's
the end of something,

1403
01:33:37,998 --> 01:33:40,348
'cause it really is in his mind.

1404
01:33:40,518 --> 01:33:44,698
But I hope it's not really
the end of things.

1405
01:33:44,868 --> 01:33:46,738
Literally happens every album.

1406
01:33:46,918 --> 01:33:49,828
"This might be our last one."
And it hasn't been yet.

1407
01:33:50,008 --> 01:33:52,918
I'm just looking forward to
what happens next.

1408
01:33:53,098 --> 01:33:54,748
We've been together for 20 years

1409
01:33:54,928 --> 01:33:57,708
and achieved so many things
that we wanted to achieve.

1410
01:33:57,888 --> 01:34:00,668
I mean, it has just been
the most amazing ride so far.

1411
01:34:00,848 --> 01:34:02,538
I'm grateful for
the whole journey.

1412
01:34:02,718 --> 01:34:05,068
I have faith in the future.

1413
01:34:05,238 --> 01:34:06,588
I trust life.

1414
01:34:12,678 --> 01:34:15,728
First of all, thank you all
so much for being here.

1415
01:34:15,898 --> 01:34:18,688
You're all actually a part of the band.
Isn't that crazy?

1416
01:34:18,858 --> 01:34:22,948
Even though some of you might be ashamed
to say it, you're all members of Coldplay.

1417
01:34:23,128 --> 01:34:25,168
We got one more song
if you wanna do it.

1418
01:34:25,348 --> 01:34:26,648
Yay!

1419
01:34:26,828 --> 01:34:28,348
Thank you for
that lovely response.

1420
01:34:28,528 --> 01:34:30,568
You get top marks from me.

1421
01:34:30,738 --> 01:34:33,748
One, two, three and...

1422
01:36:22,858 --> 01:36:24,858
My friends...

1423
01:36:26,288 --> 01:36:29,078
This is the end of
A Head Full of Dreamstour.

1424
01:36:29,948 --> 01:36:31,948
Back where it all began.

1425
01:36:32,128 --> 01:36:35,348
Thank you, everybody
all around the world,

1426
01:36:35,518 --> 01:36:37,178
at home and abroad,

1427
01:36:38,788 --> 01:36:40,918
for being the best part
of our show

1428
01:36:41,088 --> 01:36:44,618
and for keeping your
and our heads full of dreams.

1429
01:36:46,308 --> 01:36:47,448
We're in this together.

1430
01:36:49,058 --> 01:36:50,448
We're one big band.

1431
01:36:52,148 --> 01:36:56,278
Everything is possible
if you never give up

1432
01:36:57,148 --> 01:36:59,018
and if you believe in love.

1433
01:39:49,188 --> 01:39:52,758
If you're watching this,
it means we haven't flopped.

1434
01:39:52,938 --> 01:39:55,068
So, thanks a lot
for not making us flop.

1435
01:39:55,238 --> 01:39:57,288
If you're not watching this,
we have flopped,

1436
01:39:57,458 --> 01:40:00,418
so I can say what
the fuck I want.

1437
01:40:07,208 --> 01:40:09,778
Come on.
We'll get past it.

1438
01:40:09,948 --> 01:40:13,428
If you're watching this... Obviously,
they're watching this.

1439
01:40:13,608 --> 01:40:16,698
It should be "You're
watching this." Not if.

1440
01:40:16,868 --> 01:40:18,218
Let's go.

1441
01:40:18,398 --> 01:40:20,398
Let's go and sell
some fucking records.

1442
01:40:20,568 --> 01:40:23,098
It's time to go home. Tell them
we formed at college.

1443
01:40:23,268 --> 01:40:25,928
I don't care.
I don't like Alan McGee.

1444
01:40:26,098 --> 01:40:28,538
Can you sing that note
again, please? Yeah.

1445
01:40:31,578 --> 01:40:34,888
I think this song
is brilliant. I think it's good too.

1446
01:40:35,068 --> 01:40:38,198
What do you think, Will?

1447
01:40:38,368 --> 01:40:40,068
I think the second half
is great.

1448
01:40:43,938 --> 01:40:46,598
We are probably the
only band in England

1449
01:40:46,768 --> 01:40:49,298
where at least two of the
members have got webbed feet.

1450
01:40:49,468 --> 01:40:53,388
- Who's got webbed feet?
- We're all bluffing now, aren't we?

1451
01:40:53,558 --> 01:40:57,258
The reason I knew, we were on tour.
We had a shower.

1452
01:40:57,438 --> 01:41:02,398
And every morning, there'd be two sets
of normal footprints and two flippers.

1453
01:41:02,568 --> 01:41:03,878
Two flippers?

1454
01:41:07,528 --> 01:41:09,878
I can fucking see you laughing!

1455
01:41:10,058 --> 01:41:12,058
A lot of people think...

1456
01:41:13,318 --> 01:41:15,538
we're not rock and roll.

1457
01:41:15,708 --> 01:41:19,848
But I ask you, is having pastries
before eight o'clock not rock and roll?

1458
01:41:20,018 --> 01:41:21,758
In what fucking universe?

1459
01:41:30,468 --> 01:41:34,778
Ladies and gentlemen, you may remember
a year ago this band was formed...

1460
01:41:43,048 --> 01:41:44,568
Fucking pathetic!

1461
01:42:27,348 --> 01:42:28,918
I'm gonna be sick.

1462
01:44:19,632 --> 01:44:27,499
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