Chris Martin On Final Coldplay Album Cover: ‘I’ve Known It Since 1999’
Chris Martin has opened up about Coldplay‘s future plans in an extensive new interview with Rolling Stone.
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Martin revealed to the magazine that there will two more Coldplay albums following this year’s Moon Music – an animated musical based on a story manager Phil Harvey and Martin are writing together, and a final album, simply called Coldplay. “The cover of the album, I’ve known it since 1999,” Martin said. “It’s a photograph by the same photographer that took the photo that’s the cover of our first EP.” After that, he confirmed that the band will continue to tour.
However, bassist Guy Berryman suggested that he’s not certain the band will call it quits after only two more albums. “Chris is never going to stop writing, so I kind of take it with a little bit of a pinch of salt,” Berryman told the magazine. “We’re still years away from any kind of retirement. But I think you have to have a plan. If you’re running a marathon, you know you have to run 26 miles. But if somebody said to you, ‘OK, start running and just don’t stop,’ it’s quite hard to motivate yourself.”
Martin also revealed plans for a collection of unreleased Coldplay tracks. “One day we’ll do a thing called Alphabetica, which will be lots of outtakes and songs that didn’t fit anywhere, but we’ll release them in a compendium. We’ll do a song that begins with A, and one that begins with B, because there’s enough to do that —we don’t have any spare songs with Q. That’s the one I’m stuck with.”
Coldplay UK tour dates 2025
August
18 – Hull, Craven Park Stadium
19 – Hull, Craven Park Stadium
22 – London, Wembley Stadium
23 – London, Wembley Stadium
26 – London, Wembley Stadium
27 – London, Wembley Stadium
30 – London, Wembley Stadium
31 – London, Wembley Stadium
September
3 – London, Wembley Stadium
4 – London, Wembley Stadium
7 – London, Wembley Stadium
8 – London, Wembley Stadium