Coldplay And Nile Rodgers Have Been In The Studio Together

Coldplay and Nile Rodgers are working on music together, the Chic icon revealed in a conversation at the Nordoff Robbins Carol Service fundraiser for Music Therapy in Chelsea this week.

As reported in The Sun's Bizarre column, Rodgers noted, "Yesterday, I worked with Coldplay for the first day. 

"We had a blast. What was great working with Coldplay is that we’re all in the room together, and it’s sort of like a spiritual thing."

He added, "It’s like they walk in and they say, ‘Do you want to join the circle or not?’. I’m an old hippie; you’re speaking my language. Let’s go."

Coldplay released their ninth studio album and follow-up to 2019's Everyday Life, Music Of The Spheres, earlier this year. 

The group released their debut album, Parachutes, in 2000, which would go on to win the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Album with tracks like Shiver, Yellow and Trouble. 

They followed up with A Rush Of Blood To The Head in 2002 and have found further success with releases like X&Y, Viva La Vida or Death & All His Friends and more throughout their career. 

In 2020, the Clocks band celebrated the 20th-anniversary of Parachutes with a coloured vinyl (transparent yellow, to be exact). Upon its release in 2000, the album reached #2 on the ARIA Albums chart and has since sold over 13 million copies worldwide, which isn’t surprising given it contained hits Yellow, Don’t Panic, Shiver, Trouble and more. 

Last year, Keith Urban unleashed a music video for his single Out The Cage, featuring legendary funk musician Rodgers and country-trap songwriter/producer and performer Breland. 

Urban and Breland shot their parts in Sydney following a two-week quarantine. At the same time, Rodgers filmed his in Connecticut, and the resulting video, which has been described as “a frantically paced, quick cut stream of imagery”, captures the song’s “driving intensity”.

On the track itself, Urban noted: “I really wanted this song to speak to liberation of all sorts, even if that's somebody in a dead-end job, somebody that's stuck in a relationship that's going nowhere and they can't get out, someone imprisoned in their own mind.

“The freneticism of the rhythm makes me wanna take off and start running or… just break something.”

We look forward to discovering what magic Rodgers will conjure in the studio with Coldplay.