Chris Martin Explains How Guns N' Roses Influenced New Coldplay Album 'A Head Full of Dreams'

Coldplay’s Chris Martin recently sat down with SiriusXM’s Jeff Regan about the band’s upcoming album A Head Full of Dreams, including the first single “Adventure of a Lifetime,” which premieres today.

“When we finished [the song], we were like, ‘Okay we are probably ready to come out again.’ This is one of those songs that brings everything else together on a project,” he said of the single. “I’m not really on it that much -- I sing a bit and play a bit of piano -- but it’s really the rest of the band on form. It makes me happy to listen to it.”

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Martin shares that the new Coldplay song is inspired by one rock's best-known riffs. "I’d been begging Jonny our guitarist for years to make a riff that I like as much as 'Sweet Child O' Mine' by Guns N' Roses, then he showed me that one, and I was like, ‘That’s it!’ So those elements all came together, and we just wanted to kind of embrace our love of joyful music and sort of let it free.”

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“We just wanted to make this big, colorful, joyful thing called A Head Full of Dreams. So just after we did that little bit of promo for Ghost Stories the last album, we went right back in [the studio] and didn’t emerge until about a month ago,” he explained. “We toured so much a couple of years before, that I think everyone could see that we were just having a great time in the studio and we had such a clear idea of where we were trying to get to. Everyone was very cool and said, ‘You guys can go back [to the studio]. Our label and all the people that hold the power, they were very kind.”