Chris Martin And Coldplay Are New Labour’s Poppins
CHRIS Martin, front man of the Coldplay – the sound of new Labour – is talking to the Sun’s Gordon Smart:
“We grew up with Mary Poppins and all those sort of things,” says Martin.
Smart says the film supernanny is the “inspiration for the band’s spectacular concerts”.
Come see the middle-aged fans arriving in youthful-like high spirits. Come see the fans sat in neat orderly lines, taking their medicine and imbibing something sweet. Come see the fans having a jolly time and making it home for tea and scones and beddingtons.
Smart thinks this is just terrific and says: “One highlight will be a different version of their first massive hit, Yellow, which the lads play as is they are busking in a Tube station.”
And at £38.50 a toss, well worth it…
* Says Mick Hume:
If everything is supposed to have changed in Britain since Tony Blair was in his pomp, how come bloody Coldplay are still No1? Their Chris Martin was the frontman for “Blairpop” – a generation of bland, well-mannered “rock” bands without a rock’n’roll bone in their healthy-living bodies, who rose to the top under new Labour.
In 2005, when the singer sent Mr Blair a love note declaring: “I think everything you’re doing in terms of trying to sort the whole place out is BRILLIANT”, I called Martin “the musician that the Prime Minister always wanted to be, a prefect in the school of rock”. They shared an appearance of being all things to all men, with little real heart or soul behind it.
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