How the bands galactic, Max Martin-produced album Music of the Spheres blasted off.
“No way.”
Even in 2007, as a multiplatinum band, the thought of a Max collab still seemed far-fetched.
Coldplay’s Will Champion, Chris Martin, Jonny Buckland, and Guy Berryman.Credit: James Marcus Haney
Idolike [Taylor Swift’s] ‘Shake It Off.’
I just kept loving and noticing all of the songs he produced or co-wrote."
As drummer Will Champion notes in a separate interview, “All roads eventually lead to Max.”
Though Coldplay’s new album ‘Music of the Spheres’ is set in space, frontman Chris Martin says it’s filled with “a very human set of stories.”.James Devaney/GC Images
“The idea was to start imagining ourselves as other bands from across the universe,” says Chris.
There’s potentially an infinite amount of variations of life .
Can we just repeat the first half and have it be the female perspective?'"
(Champion calls the song the “beating heart” ofMusic of the Spheres.)
“I had to audition songs for him,” he says.
“Of course, even in skeletal form he makes the songs much better.
He’s just got that gift.”
“The little indie side of me was like, ‘No [working with] boy bands.’
And then I was like, ‘Yeah, but that’s 1998 you speaking.
Like, youreallylike this band.
The K-pop thing is very different to what we’re used to, and it’s quite regimented.
It’s no different.”
“The opening of ‘Pride’ was Beyonce’s” originally, he says.
Afterward, I asked her, ‘What was that piece of music?’
She said, ‘I don’t know, just some interlude.'"
Like generations before him, Chris Martin let the stars guide his way.
