On 4 December 2008, Joe Satriani filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Coldplay in the California Central District Court .
The band followed up Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends with the Prospekt’s March EP, which was released on 21 November 2008.
On 9 November, Coldplay were named the World’s Best-selling Act of 2008 at the World Music Awards in Monte Carlo.
The album was released on 13 October 2008, and reached number one on the UK Albums Chart on 19 October. It also reached number 7 on the Billboard 200 chart. In December 2008, it was voted “Best Album of the Year” by the readers, listeners and visitors of Q Magazine,…
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In October 2008, Coldplay won two Q Awards for Best Album for Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends and Best Act in the World Today.
and eventually delayed to be released on September 30, 2008.
Another EP, In Valleys , was released on iTunes on September 9, containing one song from the album, “Swim,” and three b-sides, “Cell Phone”, “Sleazy Wednesday”, and “At Full Speed”.
Ben Folds Five made a one-off concert appearance in September 2008 at the UNC Memorial Hall in Chapel Hill as part of the MySpace “Front to Back” series, in which artists play an entire album live. The band played its then-final album, The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner , and…
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On August 28, 2008, in an interview with MTV, Andrew revealed that the author Stephenie Meyer had written the treatment for the music video for “The Resolution” and was set to direct it the following week. McMahon said of the filming, “It was a very cool shoot. Music videos are…
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In a March 2007 video interview, Chaplin and Hughes spoke of wanting to take a more “organic” approach on album three, but played down suggestions about the use of guitars, referring to them as “a fun part of the live set” at present; however, the cover of ” She Sells…
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