{"id":293,"date":"2022-05-17T11:54:16","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T09:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manuelfh.be\/concrete-jungle\/?post_type=album&#038;p=293"},"modified":"2022-05-25T15:14:47","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T13:14:47","slug":"a-head-full-of-dream","status":"publish","type":"album","link":"https:\/\/manuelfh.be\/concrete-jungle\/album\/a-head-full-of-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"A head full of dream"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On 4 December 2014, Chris Martin announced in an interview with Zane Lowe on\u00a0BBC Radio 1\u00a0that Coldplay were in the middle of working on their seventh studio album,\u00a0<em>A Head Full of Dreams<\/em>.\u00a0Martin remarked it might be the band&rsquo;s final album and compared it to\u00a0Harry Potter: \u00ab\u00a0It&rsquo;s our seventh thing, and the way we look at it, it&rsquo;s like the last Harry Potter book or something like that.\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0He added that unlike their promotion efforts for\u00a0<em>Ghost Stories<\/em>, the band will tour for the seventh record.\u00a0In an interview with\u00a0Jo Whiley\u00a0on BBC Radio 2, Martin hinted at the style of the album by saying that the band were trying to make something colourful and uplifting, yet not bombastic. He also stated that it will be something to \u00ab\u00a0shuffle your feet\u00a0\u00bb to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On 11 December 2014, the band unveiled a new song, \u00ab\u00a0Miracles\u00a0\u00bb, which was written and recorded for the\u00a0World War II\u00a0drama film\u00a0<em>Unbroken<\/em>\u00a0directed by\u00a0Angelina Jolie. At the\u00a02015 Billboard Music Awards\u00a0on 17 May,\u00a0<em>Ghost Stories<\/em>\u00a0was named Top Rock Album.\u00a0On 26 September, Coldplay performed at the 2015\u00a0Global Citizen Festival\u00a0in\u00a0Central Park&rsquo;s Great Lawn in New York, an event organised by Chris Martin advocating for an end to extreme global poverty.\u00a0Coldplay, along with\u00a0Beyonc\u00e9,\u00a0Ed Sheeran, and\u00a0Pearl Jam, headlined the festival which was broadcast on NBC in the US on 27 September and the BBC in the UK on 28 September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Coldplay - A Head Full Of Dreams (Official Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vGZMvV9KBp8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking on\u00a0Nick Grimshaw&rsquo;s\u00a0<em>Radio 1 Breakfast Show<\/em>\u00a0on the BBC on 6 November, Coldplay confirmed 4 December as the release date of\u00a0<em>A Head Full of Dreams<\/em>, and a new song from the album, \u00ab\u00a0Adventure of a Lifetime\u00a0\u00bb premiered on the show.\u00a0The album has guest appearances from Beyonc\u00e9,\u00a0Gwyneth Paltrow,\u00a0Noel Gallagher,\u00a0Tove Lo\u00a0and\u00a0Barack Obama.\u00a0The album reached number-one in the UK, and number two in the US, Australia and Canada among others where it was kept in second place by\u00a0Adele&rsquo;s\u00a0<em>2<\/em>5.\u00a0The music video for \u00ab\u00a0Adventure of a Lifetime\u00a0\u00bb featured the band performing as chimpanzees. They were provided consultation with renowned\u00a0performance capture\u00a0actor\u00a0Andy Serkis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On 27 November 2015, the first dates to their 2016\u00a0A Head Full of Dreams Tour\u00a0were announced. Latin American and European stops were listed, which included three dates at\u00a0Wembley Stadium, London in June.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Coldplay#cite_note-165\">[163]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0The North America Tour, an extra Wembley concert, and an Oceania tour were later added. On 5 December, the band headlined the opening day of the 2015\u00a0Jingle Bell Ball\u00a0at London&rsquo;s\u00a0O<sub>2<\/sub>\u00a0Arena.\u00a0On 7 February 2016 they headlined the\u00a0Super Bowl 50 halftime show.\u00a0The band were joined by\u00a0Beyonc\u00e9\u00a0and\u00a0Bruno Mars.\u00a0In April 2016, the band were named the sixth best selling artist worldwide in 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 4 December 2014, Chris Martin announced in an interview with Zane Lowe on\u00a0BBC Radio 1\u00a0that Coldplay were in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":295,"template":"","tags":[59],"band-album-cat":[53],"class_list":["post-293","album","type-album","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-coldplay","band-album-cat-pop-rock"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuelfh.be\/concrete-jungle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/album\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuelfh.be\/concrete-jungle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/album"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuelfh.be\/concrete-jungle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/album"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuelfh.be\/concrete-jungle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/manuelfh.be\/concrete-jungle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/album\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1126,"href":"https:\/\/manuelfh.be\/concrete-jungle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/album\/293\/revisions\/1126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuelfh.be\/concrete-jungle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuelfh.be\/concrete-jungle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuelfh.be\/concrete-jungle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"band-album-cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuelfh.be\/concrete-jungle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/band-album-cat?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}