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Oh, hi! Good fake helloing there. Very good, very good. It's all that we meet each other backstage and then here, and we have to redo it. Yeah.
But, but you'd look really rude if you just come out and sat down and looked at each other. I have to think whether to do it or not. We had the awkward half-kiss, half-hug. He actually said, "You're sitting in the wrong place." I thought I did what I was... "No, you're all very good and entirely British sofa." It's as if Americans are busy, 'cause didn't you just fly in, didn't you, from LA?
I just got here this morning from LA, and it's going to be okay. Don't worry too much. You see, you're so lovely though. Well, here's my perspective on it. Please, this is actually quite an interesting, um, perspective. Every time the sun sets for someone, it rises for someone else, right? So, in America, in the middle of America, the people you don't, we don't really get to see very often, they, a lot of them, feel very disenfranchised and ignored. So this has been their chance to be heard. And I feel like when people are angry and they get heard, then it immediately becomes calmer once they've been listened to. Do you see what I mean? So just by, just by him...
No, I do see what you mean. You know, everything I just said, let's, I'm just going to come back on again. No, you're good. Chris Martin, that just do that again. Okay, okay. Chris Martin. Everybody, beautiful.
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Okay, beautiful. Okay. How, how you, how have you been?
We've been great. How are you?
I just came from America.
Oh, wow. And, and it's going to be okay.
Excellent. But I won't explain why.
No, don't you know, 20 years ago, I, I think this is their first ever photo shoot. And bear in mind, this is the photograph they approved. There were worse pictures from this photo shoot. There they are. Um, it seems unlikely that they would be global superstars, but there they are. Like, what's wrong with you? At that time, we were only really eating pasties and, um, Mars milk that you get from the service station, you know?
Oh, that kind of chocolatey milk? Yeah. That's all we would eat. And we thought, "We're going to look great there." No, no problem. And we didn't really have anyone to tell us what to wear. Well, there wasn't a stylist. Yeah. We paid this guy £8,000. He never, never saw him again.
How to do our... Please tell me that isn't true.
No, it's not true. And, and we look at Coldplay now, and you're kind of, you know, gods, and you tour the world and everything. And you're sitting beside Hugh Grant. Yeah. Hugh, and I know you're a fan.
I'm a giant fan of you.
Oh, like, likewise, likewise. You want to see my tattoo?
Have you got a... you?
No, I haven't. No. But didn't you send him fan mail?
I sent him fan mail as a 40-year-old man. So recently? Yeah, recently. Yeah. Not so much since the restraining order. But it was really nice.
You did. I was very flattered. Thank you. But every time I've met Hugh, he's very grumpy, and he's like, "Yeah, whatever, rock star, [ __ ] off." And then, and then, and then starts flirting with your other half. And, uh...
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So, no, this is true. This is true. So, no, so about two years was about, it was after a very British Scandal. I thought, you know what? I'm going to tell Hugh that I think he's wonderful because I, I've loved his work ever since he started 45 years ago. No, but I really have. And, um, after British Scandal, in Paddington 2, I, I just thought, I'm, I think I just wrote, "Hey, I'm a, I love you."
It was very nice. That's sweet. It was very, very kind. And he replied, and it was very gracious.
Oh, that's all good. Yeah, yeah. To we leave this now? I, I don't come out of this too bad.
No, no, it's all good. I am, I'm crap on music. That's why I've been, you know, I'm just, I've only got two records. One of them's Godspell, and the other one is the Band of the Grenadier Guards.
Good album. It's my sex tape. So there's no real camera trickery. That is just, you did it all forwards, and then they played it backwards. But you had to sing backwards.
Yes. Yeah. This was in 2002.
I'm presuming that's very hard. I mean, yes, that's unbelievably hard. And can you remember any of it backwards?
Uh, only a tiny little bit. Okay. If I play some of the music backwards, yeah, can you sing to it backwards? And then we'll see if it's right. If we play it the other way around, and if it's wrong, can we keep it out of the show?
Of course. Lovely to... It's so in. Okay, here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go.
Okay, music from...
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You? Okay. Now, now, what was beautiful? Did you get that wrong?
That was actually a Russian chat-up line. But so you're going to now play that forwards?
No, it's not going to, not make any sense. I made that up. That I was... But the melody will be right, but the words will be weird. But let's try, try it. Let's try it. You might be... Are you sure? There might be some words in there. Let's see.
Let's see. Let's...
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See, rumbled. I thought you sang more than that.
No, no, that was it. Was that all you did? Very lazy. I can do, uh, I can do Welsh. The other one. I can do the confused Welsh. "Whose coat is that jacket? Whose shoes are those trainers?" We had a guy on tour who said that for real. He said, he said, "Whose Coke is that Pepsi?" And just huge congratulations to you, uh, Milo Zato. Zato. Zato. So it doesn't matter. I was the title of this, 'cause I thought, is it, are you a big Scrabble player? Did you just get yourself? Yeah, that's 96 points at it. It's an incredible title. You've got to have an interesting name. And my, my real name is not that interesting. So it's not like Antonio Banderas or Jimmy Carr. But the great thing is, it's been a huge success.
Well, yeah. Yeah, I guess every band dreams of being successful. But then once you've got success, there's that all that terrible pressure of, "Oh, now we've got to stay successful." First, you dream of having a girlfriend, and then you dream of getting successful. And both have come true. Those are the two dreams.
So how much pressure do you feel before a new album comes out?
About 15 stone. It really, it, it feels like, well, like anything, like a movie or a TV show or a new fruits movie you're releasing. I don't know. It's more than a movie. If you're doing a movie, hopefully you'll have another one in the pipeline or something. But, but this is, this is the end. This is three years, isn't it? Three years? Well, yeah. Not long. It's not three years long. No, that is value. You know, uh, I was thinking about names and stuff because I knew you would ask me about Milo Zato, what it means. And I realized that Banderas means flags, right? That's correct. So his name is really Tony Flags. Yes. Which isn't so glamorous.
But don't they put that in your trailer sometimes?
Put that in my trailer. And now that I am leaving tonight to Italy, I, I would say that that's my name at the hotel for real. Yeah. Don't say that to them. I am leaving tonight. So, codename Zoro, checked in on her Tony Flag. You'll find him.
And on this album, uh, you've got a duet with Rihanna. Yes.
Very exciting. It is exciting that you got Rihanna to...
I know. Do people speak to people? Or is it Chris calling Rihanna?
Uh, no, I went to visit her and sat down with the piano. And, um, and her sitting where you are, looking very similar. Yeah, I can imagine. And, uh, she looks rough. She looks rough. I said, um, "I have this song." And I was very English about it. It took about 20 minutes to ask the question. And then I just played it. And she was like, "Okay."
$2 million? No, she's not. This multi-award-winning supergroup have sold 100 million albums worldwide. You okay, Jody?
I'm all right. All right. Did you, yeah, I've noticed you sat me the furthest away. That's a legal requirement. Joe, do you want to come and sing with us? Jie, do you come and sit on the drone? Let's, let's get your chair. Why put your chair right here? That'd be funny. You can if you want. Bar. Here we go. Oh my God. Come on. Get now. You be good, Jody. Don't disrupt it in any way. Sit, sit quietly. Where got 2 meters? I should stand.
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I know to do. Been happier. Thank you very much, Chris Martin. I don't think we've ever seen a guest this happy. So, oh, Jody, I'm so happy for you. I played that so cool. I did. Really cool. Yeah, yeah. Did so obviously Jody loves you. What's your connection with Tom Da? Did he grow up where you grew up or something?
Well, he's slightly younger than me, but yeah, he's all grown now. He, where, where Tom's from is Plymouth, isn't he? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm Plymouth, and I, I lost the battle of the bands in Plymouth in 1993. Very badly lost.
Do you remember the name of the band?
Yeah, the band was called Bunger. The... And, uh, ironically, for someone who's in Coldplay, they told me I had too much attitude. So, wow. They said, "You've got too much attitude. You've lost. You're out of here." No. Are, yeah. Said, "Well, it's either diving for me or music. You got to go with the music."
That is off the album. That is off the album, Music of the Spheres, which is out now. The new album is this. I think it's out. Yeah, today. Yeah, yeah. It is. It's out now. Yeah, it is. Yeah. You can buy it. Jody, you can buy it. You're not getting that. You had enough young ladies.
And so obviously that's a collaboration with you and BTS. How did that happen? How did those spheres collide?
It was like a classic sort of social media rumor that I don't know if it was true or not, but I got told, "Oh, BTS asked if you'd like to do a song for them." And I was like, "Well, that's never going to work. It's that's like, you know, the movie Twins with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito." But, but then the idea just sat in my head for a while. And then the title came through. And then this song just appeared out of nowhere one day. And I felt like, "Oh, this, this might be the one." And it's a, because it's a love song about difficult love, or love that requires overcoming some boundaries. And so we thought, "Well, this would really fit with the two of us sort of weird way."
And did you go to Korea?
Yes, I went to Korea. Yeah. Well, to be fair, I didn't see any other Koreans except BTS, really. And loads of people in hazmat suits. It was really intense. Wow. Yeah. We, we, we got permission from the government to go for two days. And half of that was in like a holding cell. And then I was taken to a room. And then BTS came in. We had the best time. And then I was basically told, "[ __ ] off. Nice time is precious."
This is it. Jody, is there anything you've ever wanted to ask Chris Martin that you would like to ask him?
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Now, can I come to Wembley in August 2022? I've got my lamb sets trying and get tickets. They go sale, they go s next week. You know, um, yeah, you can if you want to come for real. Why is everyone else getting to go like T? We're all coming. All right.