That time David Bowie refused a collaboration with the Coldplay

And David Bowie snubbed the Coldplay. Word of Chris Martin. To tell the sensational “no” collected by the Coldplay by the White Duke in front of a request for collaboration was in 2014 the frontman of the band of “Viva la Vita”. On the occasion of the delivery ceremony of the BBC Music Awards that year the Coldplay frontman revealed that she tried to invite David Bowie to collaborate with his band, however receiving a clear refusal from the artist: “Once I sent Bowie a song to Bowie, asking him to record the vocal parts. Very high standards, and I appreciate it.

The collaboration was intended, according to the ideas of the Coldplay, to be part of the album “Viva la Vida or Death and all his friendses”, the album to which Chris Martin and associates had started working together with Brian Eno, previously alongside the white Duke. “In a song there was a passage à la David Bowie. Chris Martin telephoned him or wrote to him a letter to tell him: ‘Please, would you like to sing her?’ The album would have sold 6.8 million copies worldwide, consecrating the Coldplay phenomenon.

The Coldplay frontman on that same occasion spent some words on David Bowie’s career and on his latest album of unpublished, “The Next Day”, delivered to the market in 2013, the previous year: “When did ‘Where Are We Now?’ I was shaken and even a little annoyed.