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In an interview, Coldplay vocalist Chris Martin revealed that the song was written in mid-2004 and was inspired by Martin's daughter, Apple, and English alternative rock singer Kate Bush: "That's a song where we were listening to a lot of Kate Bush last summer, and we wanted a song which had a lot of tom-toms in it.
Coldplay first performed "Charlie Brown" at a "friends and family" gig at The Forum, Kentish Town, London on 31 May 2011. They then continued to play it at multiple shows in 2011, beginning with the Rock im Park festival in Nürnberg , Germany on 3 June 2011 and again at Rock am Ring festival the following day, which was the first live ...
Michael Baumann explained for The Ringer that Coldplay's rise to fame coincided with a decade marked by "artistic snark and cynicism: hipsterism, the peak of pop punk" and the new rebirth of rockism, meaning that their "earnest, nonthreatening, and profoundly accessible" public image was established at "the worst time of the past 40 years to be ...
Billboard writer Jason Lipshutz called "Another's Arms" "a songwriting gem", although he found the arrangement "flat". [2] Josh Modell of The A.V. Club felt that it was "undercooked", [4] while Consequence of Sound's Josh Terry said that the song was the "most well-crafted offering" of Ghost Stories.
It was originally called "Panic", [2] and was one of six songs played at Coldplay's first gig in 1998 at Camden's Laurel Tree. [3] This version has a different melody, and the lyrics are an account of a "slightly disastrous evening Chris had spent entertaining a young lady called Alice Hill". [3] Eventually, the title became "Don't Panic."
Coldplay debuted the song during their Glastonbury Festival set on 29 June 2024. [6] Little Simz and Elyanna joined them onstage, while short clips of Burna Boy's verses were screened in the background. [26] The first performance with all collaborators was held at Coldplay's first Croke Park, Dublin show of their tour on 29 August 2024. [27]
"Sparks" has been ranked among Coldplay's best works by Billboard, [5] and Consequence. [4] The former also included the song on their "40 Best Deep Cuts of 2000" list, pointing out that it contains "many of the touchstones that would become synonymous with the British rock band in the ensuing decades", from the hopeless romanticism of the lyrics to the use of interjections. [6]
Coldplay performed a medley of "Lost+" and "Viva la Vida" at the ceremony. American rapper Jay-Z , who was the guest vocalist on "Lost+", performed "Lost+" with Coldplay onstage. The performance was recorded and released on 8 February 2009.