Chris Martin confirms when Coldplay will retire
Chris Martin has confirmed when Coldplay will retire.
With their tenth studio album 'Moon Music' being released on Friday 4th October, it's hard to imagine a time when we won't get any more new music from Coldplay.
However, the band's frontman Chris Martin has confirmed when they'll stop making music.
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Chris made the revelation during an interview with Zane Lowe, which was recorded on the Dublin leg of their Music of the Spheres tour.
In the interview, released on Apple Music this week, the 47-year-old said Coldplay will only make two more albums.
"We are only going to do twelve proper albums and that’s real. Yeah I promise," he told Zane.
"Because less is more and for some of our critics, even less would be even more! It’s really important that we have that limit."
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Explaining why the band is limiting themselves to twelve, Chris said: "There’s only seven Harry Potters. There’s only twelve and a half Beatles albums, there’s about the same for Bob Marley, so all our heroes.
"Also, having that limit means the quality control is so high right now and for a song to make it, it’s almost impossible, which is great. And so where we could be coasting, we’re trying to improve."
The singer said that after Coldplay he will still make music.
"That will always continue in some way, but there’s something about the Coldplay thing," he said.
"I don’t know where the songs come from. I don’t know where the ideas come from, but that’s just been coming to me for about four or five years now. Like, ‘You have to finish like this,’ and I trust that just like I trust the songs."
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Martin said it's possible that him and his Coldplay bandmates Guy Berryman, Phil Harvey, Will Champion and Jonny Buckland, might collaborate on some side projects afterwards.
"So if we do something together after that creatively beyond touring, then it’ll be something different, or it’ll be a side thing, or it’ll be a compilation of things we hadn’t finished."
Coldplay’s new album 'Moon Music' is being released this Friday, October 4.
