Coldplay Say Label Originally Wanted Viva La Vida Cut From Their Album

Coldplay’s 10th album Moon Music releases Friday (Oct.4), and they’ll apparently only make two more after that.

To celebrate, Chris Martin talked with Rolling Stone about some of the band’s defining songs, and one of them was (of course) “Viva La Vida,” which Coldplay had to fight to keep on 2008’s Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends.“Viva La Vida” is obviously an important song; aside from being the LP’s quasi-title track, it was also Coldplay’s first #1 hit.

But it seems their label, Parlophone, was not digging it.Here’s what Martin said about it: Read the full interview here.

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