COLDPLAY - EVERGLOW

EVERGLOW

COLDPLAY

SONGWRITERS: CHRIS MARTIN; GUY BERRYMAN; JOHNNY BUCKLAND; MIKKEL ERIKSEN; TOR HERMANSEN & WILL CHAMPION.

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: A HEAD FULL OF DREAMS

LABEL: PARLOPHONE RECORDS

GENRE: SOFT ROCK

YEAR: 2015

 

        Coldplay are a British rock band formed in London in 1996. Vocalist, rhythm guitarist and pianist Chris Martin, lead guitarist Jonny Buckland, bassist Guy Berryman, and drummer Will Champion met at University College London and began playing music together from 1996 to 1998, first calling themselves Pectoralz and then Starfish before finally changing their name to Coldplay. Their creative director and former manager Phil Harvey is considered the fifth member of the band.

          After changing their name to Coldplay, the band recorded and released two EPs, Safety in 1998 and The Blue Room in 1999, the latter was their first release under a major record label, Parlophone. Coldplay achieved worldwide fame with the release of the song "Yellow" in 2000, followed in the same year by their debut album Parachutes, which was nominated for the Mercury Prize. The band's second album, A Rush of Blood to the Head(2002), was released to critical acclaim. Their next record, X&Y, was the best-selling album worldwide of 2005. While the Brian Eno-produced fourth studio album, Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends(2008) was the best-selling album of said year and earned the band three Grammy Awards. In 2011, Coldplay released their fifth studio album, Mylo Xyloto, which topped the charts in over 34 countries and was the UK's best-selling rock album of 2011. The band have since released Ghost Stories(2014), A Head Full of Dreams(2015) and Everyday Life(2019).

        Coldplay have sold more than 100 million albums worldwide, making them one of the world's best-selling music artists. They have won numerous awards throughout their career, including nine Brit Awards, seven MTV Video Music Awards, eight MTV Europe Music Awards and seven Grammy Awards from 35 nominations. The band's first three albums—Parachutes(2000), A Rush of Blood to the Head(2002), and X&Y(2005) — are among the best-selling albums in UK chart history.

      "Everglow" is a song by British rock band Coldplay. It is the fourth track from their seventh studio album, A Head Full of Dreams. It features uncredited guest vocals by Gwyneth Paltrow, who at the time was married to Chris Martin despite their separation being announced in 2014. The track premiered during Zane Lowe's Beats 1 radio show on 26 November 2015 and was originally released as a promotional single for the album on 27 November 2015.

       On 11 November 2016, however, the song was released as the fourth official single from the album through a newly recorded stripped-down version, which was inspired by Martin's unrehearsed solo performance of the song at the recente Glastonbury Festival. This recording ends with a sample of Muhammad Ali's 1977 speech in Newcastle upon Tyne.

         The track revolves around a heartfelt piano riff and was written in the key of C# Minor at 73 BPM and a chord progression that alternates between C#m-A-E-G#m7 and C#m-A-E-B

Oh, they say people come

They say people go

This particular diamond

Was extra special

 

And though you might be gone

And the world may not know

Still I see you celestial

 

Like a lion you ran, a goddess you rolled

Like an eagle you circled, in perfect purple

So how come things move on? How come cars don’t slow?

When it feels like the end of my world

And I should, but I can't let it go

 

But when I'm cold, cold

When I'm cold, cold

There's a light that you give me

When I'm in shadow

There's a feeling you give me, an everglow

 

Like brothers in blood

Sisters who ride

Yeah, we swore on that night

We'd be friends 'til we die

 

But the changing of winds

And the way waters flow

Life as short as the falling of snow

And now I'm gonna miss you, I know

 

But when I'm cold, cold

In water rolled, salt

I know you're always with me

And the way you will show

And you're with me wherever I go

'Cause you give me this feeling, this everglow

 

Oh, what I would give for just a moment to hold

Yeah, I live for this feeling, this everglow

So if you love someone

You should let them know

Oh, the light that you give me will everglow.