![]() ![]() Speaking of Glastonbury, Coldplay have headlined the main stage at Worthy Farm a total of four times to date. After follow-up Popcorn only managed a No.12 spot in the UK chart, Chris Martin fired back during his band’s Glastonbury performance of Speed of Sound that summer: “Crazy Frog, where are you now?” It was Coldplay that got the last laugh, however. ![]() Crazy Frog’s very divisive cover of Axel F (originally the theme from Beverly Hills Cop) stormed to top spot, with Speed of Sound having to settle for second place. ![]() Speed of Sound was released the same week that the UK was gripped by a novelty ringtone cover by a cartoon frog. The Guardian’s review at the time noted: “The shadow of Brian Eno does float across the album, but it's the Brian Eno who steered U2 to arena-packing superstardom by producing The Unforgettable Fire”.Įno ended up producing Coldplay’s follow-up to X&Y, 2008’s Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends, with Martin explaining how tough a collaborator Eno was: "He goes: 'Your songs are too long and you're too repetitive, and you use the same tricks too much, and big things aren't necessarily good things, and you use the same sounds too much, and your lyrics are not good enough.' He broke it down." X&Y was inspired in part by the music of Brian Eno, and Eno himself plays synth on two songs from the album (The World Turned Upside Down and Talk). Once we forgot about the money we were free to push ourselves to the very limits and make the best album possible.” “It was all to do with fiscal years and shareholders anyway. “Deadlines be damned,” he was quoted as saying. Martin later explained that the band had taken a financial hit themselves in order to release the album when it was finally ready. The album’s delay made headlines at the time after causing a slump in profits for the band’s label EMI. X&Y had originally been scheduled for release in 2004, then January 2005, but it didn’t surface until June 2005. ![]() I’d say the strong themes are love, loss, death, excitement, fascination with things we don’t understand and are either terrified by or inspired by.” So the theme on the record is just anything that we have been thinking about or experiencing. Instead of giving in to the criticism though, Martin describes how the band stuck to their guns: “We all talked about it and decided that we should edit ourselves. ![]()
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