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Chris Martin performs at Wembley Stadium on August 22, 2025 as part of Coldplay’s Music of the Spheres world tour - Jim Dyson/Getty At an early Coldplay concert in London’s Soho in 1998, singer Chris ...

Album anniversaries make listeners feel their age, yet lift the same burden by returning them to the glorious music of their bygone days. In 2025, a number of albums will celebrate milestones. Of ...

British band Coldplay are to reissue nine of their previous albums on clear records made from recycled plastic bottles. The EcoRecords are claimed to reduce carbon emissions during the manufacturing ...

Coldplay’s new album Ghost Stories has been released, to quite a mixed bag of reviews. When just three weeks after the album’s track listing had been announced Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow ...

LONDON, June 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Continuing their sustainability mission, Coldplay are re-releasing all of their albums as clear 140g EcoRecords made from recycled plastic bottles, produced using ...