7 STORIES
2000 · 00S
A four-piece band of unassuming London students stumbled into the new millennium with a song that sounded like sunrise filtered through a be…
2002 · 00S
LIVERPOOL, UK
"Clocks" is not a love song about running out of time so much as a panic attack set to a piano arpeggio, written in roughly a quarter of an …
2002 · 00S
LIVERPOOL, UK
Coldplay's most famous apology was found, not written: Chris Martin stumbled on an out-of-tune upright piano in a Liverpool studio and had t…
2005 · 00S
A slow-building hymn for the moment after collapse, "Fix You" arrived in 2005 as the emotional centerpiece of Coldplay's third album, writte…
2008 · 00S
BARCELONA, SPAIN
The most euphoric-sounding song of 2008 is actually a confession from a toppled king on the morning after his fall, and its title was lifted…
2011 · 10S
"Paradise" is not a song about bliss. It is a quiet story about a disappointed child who survives by daydreaming, wrapped in the largest str…
2015 · 10S
WORLI VILLAGE, MUMBAI, INDIA
Chris Martin set out to write Coldplay's first proper late-night club banger, and the hook he came up with was reportedly about buying a rou…