On January 12th 2012, Coldplay were up for two Brit Awards
Then in an interview with 2Day FM late in 2012, Martin said the title of their next album would be way easier to pronounce. He denied talk that they were taking a year off from touring by saying “I think the three-year break idea all started because I said we…
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And at the 2012 MTV VMA’s, “Paradise” picked up the award for Best Rock Video
On November 30th 2011 Coldplay managed to bag three Grammy nominations for the 54th Annual Grammy Awards – a record that was just waiting to be broken.
On the 26th Oct 2011, Coldplay did a concert for “Amex Unstaged” at the Plaza de Toros de Las Ventas in Madrid, Spain – it got streamed on YouTube as a live webcast, directed by Anton Corbijn
Mylo Xyloto got released on Oct 24 2011.
On October 19th 2011, they performed at Apple’s private memorial for Steve Jobs which included a few of their old classics like “Viva la Vida”, “Fix You”, “Yellow” and the brand new “Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall”.
Tickets for Coldplay’s european tour went on sale on Sept 23 2011 – it was all over in seconds.
Then on Sept 12 the band released “Paradise”, the second single from Mylo Xyloto
A few weeks later, on Aug 12 2011, the band dropped by their website to say that the new album was called Mylo Xyloto and would be out on Oct 24 2011.