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Coldplay to honor past, present and future at Super Bowl
MESFIN FEKADU
AP Music Writer
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) —
Coldplay lead singer Chris
Martin says the band’s Su-
per Bowl halftime show will
try to honor the past, pres- “Well most of them have
ent and future.
At a press conference
Thursday, the band said
that they will have the
Youth Orchestra of Los An-
geles there to represent
the future and Beyoncé —
whose 2013 performance
they adore — for the past.
“We’ve watched all of the
other halftime shows many
times and most of them
are fantastic,” Martin said. conference and the other
“I think we’re going to try
to celebrate those other
years and hopefully make
a show as memorable as
some of our favorites.”
Coldplay, whose well-
known songs include “Yel-
low,” ‘’Speed of Sound,”
‘’Viva la Vida” and “Mag-
ic,” was mum about the
other performers set to
the hit the stage Sunday
at Levi’s Stadium in Santa
Clara, California. Martin al- Martin.
luded to Bruno Mars, who
performed at the Super
Bowl in 2014, joining the big Beyonce’s music. She’s one
stage in a recent interview.
been leaked by Pepsi, I
think,” he said when asked
about who else would
perform. When a reporter
asked Martin if his children, ryman and Will Champion,
Apple and Moses, would
watch, he said: “I hope
they’ll watch. What else is
on that day?” He added
that his son designed two
pairs of shoes for him — one
he wore Thursday at the
is for Sunday’s big perfor-
mance.
Though Beyonce is per-
forming Sunday, the band
did say they wouldn’t per-
form their new collabora-
tion with the diva called
“Hymn for the Weekend,”
which they recorded for
their latest album, explain-
ing that it only recently
came out. “I don’t think it
would be quite right,” said
But they reiterated they are
big Beyonce fans. “We love
of our all-time favorites and
she’s one of the greatest
performers I’ve ever wit-
nessed,” said Martin.
The band, which includes
Jonny Buckland, Guy Ber-
said they spoke at length
with one another about
what their performance
should represent.
“We decided we wanted
to make it about together-
ness, acceptance and the
things we believed in. Then
we called the right guests,
so we know that we have
great people joining us,”
Martin said.
Asked how they would fit
16 years of music into just
12 minutes, the frontman
joked: “We decided we’d
play all our No. 1s and then
work out how to fill the oth-
er 10 minutes.”
The 17-minute conference
Friday 5 February 2016
Jonny Buckland, left to right, Guy Berryman, Chris Martin and
Will Champion of Coldplay answer questions during a halftime
news conference for the upcoming NFL Super Bowl 50 football
game Thursday, Feb. 4, 2016, in San Francisco.
Associated Press
took some political turns: The Carolina Panthers will
As Martin and his band- face the Denver Broncos
mates entered the stage, at Super Bowl 50, but Cold-
the singer said: “Thank you, play would not be drawn
everybody. I feel like Don- into revealing who they’re
ald Trump.” And when a rooting for.
reporter asked if the band “I think we’re firmly spit
had to campaign to get down the middle between
the Super Bowl gig, he said: those of us who know abso-
“We started in Iowa three lutely nothing about foot-
years ago. We had a bus, a ball and those of us who
small bus...” It earned Mar- know almost absolutely
tin a loud applause at the nothing about football,”
end of his comments. Buckland said.q