In 1998,Coldplaytook their first step over the edge withSafety, their debut EP.
It was also at that time that the frontman knew what awaited the band at the end.
Martin broke down the plan inColdplaysRolling Stonecover story, out today.
Photograph by Yana Yatsuk
It will be their 12th, and it wont look too different fromSafety.
The cover of the album, Ive known it since 1999, Martin toldRolling Stone.
Its a photograph by the same photographer that took the photo thats the cover of our first EP.
TheSafetycover is a black-and-white image of Martin, blurry in a moment of captured motion.
It was captured by John Hilton, who was school friends with guitarist Jonny Buckland.
Coldplay only released 500 copies of the EP.
Its one of the earliest physical artifacts of their career.
He isnt feeling overly sentimental about it.
Then,Coldplaywill bring it all to a close, kind of.
There will be no more albums and no more blurry cover images to choose from.
Were still years away from any kind of retirement.
But I think you have to have a plan.
If youre running a marathon, you know you have to run 26 miles.
And it also it fitted in with that dark, Radiohead-y thing that everyone was into at the time.
They were happy just to leave it there.
So the name came from the picture, he said.
So, in that way, Im really chuffed about it.
