Yellow is going to go into the charts in a couple of weeks. Do you think so? Totally.
Even though we've seen the promo, do the first line for me because I love it.
# Look at the stars. #
Oh!
It is fantastic, actually. You are my favourite new band. Really?
And I wouldn't say that. Thanks a lot. Shut up Johnny, will you?!
Coldplay are the best band in Britain.
That's not too big an introduction, is it?
No pressure. No pressure.
Best band ever. If you don't like it, it's my mistake.
Right. One, two, three, four...
# Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
# I used to rule the world
# Seas would rise when I gave the word
# Now in the morning I sleep alone
# Sweep the streets I used to own
# I used to roll the dice
# Feel the fear in my enemy's eyes
# Listened as the crowd would sing
# "Now the old king is dead! Long live the king!"
# One minute I held the key
# Next the walls were closed on me
# I discovered that my castles stand
# Upon pillars of salt, pillars of sand
# I hear Jerusalem bells a-ringing
# Roman cavalry choirs are singing
# Be my mirror, my sword and shield
# My missionaries in a foreign field
# For some reason I can't explain
# Once you'd gone there was never
# Never an honest word
# That was when I ruled the world
# It was a wicked and wild wind
# Blew down the doors to let me in
# Shattered windows and the sound of drums
# People couldn't believe what I'd become
# Revolutionaries wait
# For my head on a silver plate
# I'm just a puppet on a lonely string
# Oh, who would ever want to be king?
# Now I hear Jerusalem bells a-ringing
# Roman cavalry choirs are singing
# Be my mirror, my sword and shield
# My missionaries in a foreign field
# For some reason I can't explain
# I know St Peter will call my name
# Never an honest word
# But that was when I ruled the world
# Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
# I hear Jerusalem bells a-ringing
# Roman cavalry choirs are singing
# Be my mirror, my sword and shield
# My missionaries in a foreign field
# For some reason I can't explain
# I know St Peter will call my name
# Never an honest word
# But that was when I ruled the world
AUDIENCE: # Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
# Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
# Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. #
Thank you, everybody. That's fantastic.
# Turn your magic on
# Umi, she'd say
# Everything you want's a dream away
# And we are legends every day
# That's what she told me
# Turn your magic on
# To me she'd say
# Everything you want's a dream away
# Under this pressure
# Under this weight
# We are diamonds
# Now I feel my heart beating
# I feel my heart underneath my skin
# Yeah, I feel my heart beating
# Cos you make me feel
# Like I'm alive again
# Oh, you make me feel
# Like I'm alive again
# I said I can't go on
# Not in this way
# I'm a dream that died by light of day
# Going to hold up half the sky and say
# Only I own me
# And I feel my heart beating
# I feel my heart underneath my skin
# Yeah, I can feel my heart beating
# Cos you make me feel
# Like I'm alive again
# You make me feel
# Like I'm alive again... #
OK, I know this is hard cos of the mud.
I know this is hard cos of the mud.
Just trust me and try it.
Everybody get down.
Let's crouch down. Hands up, crouch down.
This is the last thing you'll have to do this weekend.
So you might as well get muddy.
Everybody stay down.
Stay down.
One, two, one, two, three.
# If we've only got this life
# This adventure, oh, then I
# If we've only got this life
# You get me through
# If we've only got this life
# In this adventure, oh, then I
# Want to share it with you
# With you
# With you... #
Let's see you jump.
# Woohoo
AUDIENCE: # Woohoo
# Woohoo
# Woohoo. #
We are getting lyrics from the listeners on 81199,
the most boring lyrics possible.
Like, really boring.
And don't just send in old Coldplay lyrics as a joke!
LAUGHTER
They're coming in. They're really boring.
Wonderful.
Just saw a leaf drop out of a tree. Do you want us to do that?
Yeah, give it a go, go on.
Here we go. Let's make it full of salsa.
# Walking this morning
# What did I see?
# I saw a leaf drop out of a tree
# Walking along
# After dark
# All kind of changes going on in the park
# I'm saying, yeah... #
Something like that? Yeah. I mean, that is a hit already.
That's good! Is that how easy the album is?!
Yeah, that's actually off the album! Wow!
Hey. Yep.
Two, three, four...
# Wooh
# Ooh, ooh, ooh
# I stole a key
# Took a car downtown where the lost boys meet
# Took a car downtown and took what they offered me
# To set me free
# I saw the lights go down at the end of the scene
# Saw the lights go down standing in front of me
# Wooh
# In my scarecrow dreams
# When they smash my heart into smithereens
# Be a bright red rose come bursting the concrete
# Be a cartoon heart
# Light a fire, a fire, a spark
# Light a fire, a flame in my heart
# We'll run wild
# We'll be glowing in the dark
# Wooh
# We'll be glowing in the dark
# Wooh
# All the boys, all the girls
# All that matters in the world
# All the boys, all the girls
# All the madness that occurs
# All the highs, all the lows
# As the room a-spinning goes
# We'll run riot
# We'll start glowing in the dark
# Oh
# So we'll soar
# Luminous and wired
# We'll be glowing in the dark. #
Thank you, everybody.
# In my place In my place
# Were lines that I couldn't change
# I was lost
# Oh, yeah
# And I was lost, I was lost
# Crossed lines I shouldn't have crossed
# I was lost
# Oh, yeah
# Yeah
# How long must you wait for it?
# Yeah
# How long must you pay for it?
# Yeah
# How long must you wait for it?
# For it
# I was scared, I was scared
# Tired and under-prepared
# But I wait for it
# And if you go, if you go
# And leave me down here on my own
# Then I'll wait for you
# Yeah
# How long must you wait for it?
# Yeah
# How long must you pay for it?
# Yeah
# How long must you wait for it?
# For it... #
Come on, everyone.
Even at the back, now.
# I was singing please, please, please
# Come back and sing to me
# To me
# Me
# Come on and sing it out
# Now, now
# Come on and sing it out
# To me
# Me
# Come back and sing
# In my place, in my place
# Were lines that I couldn't change
# I was lost
# Oh, yeah
# Oh, yeah. #
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
# I turn the music up
# I got my records on
# I shut the world outside
# Until the lights come on
# Maybe the streets alight
# Maybe the trees are gone
# But I feel my heart start beating to my favourite song
# And all the kids they dance
# All the kids all night
# Until Monday morning feels another life
# I turn the music up
# I'm on a roll this time
# And heaven is in sight
# I turn the music up
# I got my records on
# From underneath the rubble sing a rebel song
# Don't want to see another generation drop
# I'd rather be a comma than a full stop
# Maybe I'm in the black
# Maybe I'm on my knees
# Maybe I'm in the gap between the two trapezes
# But my heart is beating
# And my pulses start
# Cathedrals in my heart
# As we soar
# Oh, this light
# I swear you
# Emerge blinking into
# To tell me it's all right
# As we soar
# Oh, oh, oh
# Every siren is a symphony
# And every tear's a waterfall
# Is a waterfall
# Ah-ah-ah
# Is a waterfall
# Every teardrop
# Is a waterfall
# Ah-ah-ah
# So you can hurt
# Hurt me bad
# But still I'll raise
# I'll raise the flag
# Is a waterfall
# A waterfall
# Ooh
# Every tear
# Woohoo Every tear is a waterfall
# Every tear
# Every tear is a waterfall
# Every tear
# Every teardrop is a waterfall
# Every tear
# Every teardrop is a waterfall. #
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
# Come up to meet you
# Tell you I'm sorry
# You don't know how lovely you are
# I had to find you
# To tell you I need you
# To tell you I set you apart
# Tell me your secrets
# And ask me your questions
# Oh, and I rush to the start
# Running in circles
# Coming up tails
# Heads on a science apart
# Nobody said it was easy
# Oh, it's such a shame for us to part
# Nobody said it was easy
# No-one ever said it would be so hard
# I'm going back to the start
# I was just guessing
# At numbers and figures
# I was pulling the puzzles apart
# Questions of science
# Of science and progress
# Do not speak as loud as my heart
# Tell me you love me
# Oh, come back and haunt me
# Oh, and I rush to the start
# Running in circles
# Chasing our tails
# Coming back as we are
# Nobody said it was easy
# It's such a shame for us to part
# Nobody said it was easy
# No-one ever said it would be so hard
# Oh, let's go back to the start...#
Hey!
OK!
# Oh-ooh ooh-ooh ooh-ooh
# Da-da, da-da-da
# Oh-oh-ooh
# Oh-oh-oh
# Oh-ooh ooh-ooh ooh-ooh. #
That's an old song!
WHISPERS: By an old band.
What is the secret to you guys still being together,
still being relevant, people still wanting to know
and listen to your music, seven albums deep?
Like, how do you do it?
What's... What's the secret?
Well, first of all, Annie, I think we love it.
You know? It's really, really what we all feel called to do.
Mmm.
So it's very satisfying to do it.
Secondly, I think we've learned over time to feel grateful for it
because the period that we've been a band has been such
a shifting time in music, and it's just not ever been a time
where you can take something for granted.
That's what I feel, anyway. Jonny might say the money.
What do you think, Jonny?
I think we were very lucky to have each other,
to meet each other. Also, we've been quite lucky
in many other ways as well.
Yeah.
We've had such amazing people help us out
and work with us and give us a break
and, you know, we owe so many people
such a debt of gratitude.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
CHEERING INTENSIFIES
# Cos you're a sky
# Cos you're a sky full of stars
# I'm gonna give you my heart
# Cos you're a sky
# Cos you're a sky full of stars
# Cos you light up my power
# I don't care
# Go on and tear me apart
# I don't care if you do
# Ooh-ooh-ooh
# Ooh
# Cos in a sky
# Cos in a sky full of stars
# I think I saw you Ooh-ooh-ooh... #
Let's go!
# Cos you're a sky
# Cos you're a sky full of stars
# I wanna die in your arms
# Oh, oh-oh
# Cos you get lighter the more it gets dark
# I'm gonna give you my heart
# I don't care
# Go on and tear me apart
# I don't care if you do
# Ooh-ooh-ooh
# Ooh
# Cos in a sky
# Cos in a sky full of stars
# I think I saw you
# I think I saw you... #
Let's go! One, two, three!
# Ooh-ooh-ooh
# Oh, beautiful
# You're a sky full of stars Full of stars
# Such a heavenly view
# Yeah, yeah, yeah, ooh
# You're such a heavenly view Oh-oh-oh oh-oh
# Yeah, yeah, yeah, ooh! #
Have a great time, everybody. Thank you!
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
# Oh, no, I see
# A spider web is tangled up with me
# And I lost my head
# And thought of all the stupid things I'd said
# Oh, no, what's this?
# A spider web and I'm caught in the middle
# So I turned to run
# And thought of all the stupid things I'd done
# I, I never meant to cause you trouble
# I, I never meant to do you wrong
# And I, well, if I ever caused you trouble
# Oh, no, I never meant to do you harm
# Oh, no, I see
# A spider web and it's me in the middle
# So I turn to run
# But here I am in my little bubble
# Singing out, I never meant to cause you trouble
# I, I never meant to do you wrong
# And I, well, if I ever caused you trouble
# Oh, no, I never meant to do you harm
# They spun a web for me
# And they spun a web for me
# And they spun a web for me. #
Thank you!
PIANO INTRO PLAYS, CROWD CHEERS
Are we good? Yep!
# Lights go out and I can't be saved
# Tides that I tried to swim against
# Have brought me down upon my knees
# Oh, and I beg, I beg and plead Singin'
# Come out of things unsaid
# And shoot an apple off my head
# With a trouble that can't be named
# A tiger's waiting to be tamed Singin'
# Yo-o-o-ou
# Are
# Yo-o-o-ou
# Are
# Confusion that never stops
# Closing walls and tickin' clocks
# Are gonna come back and take you home
# But I couldn't stop that and you now know
# So I come out upon my seas
# Cursed missed opportunities
# Am I a part of the cure?
# Or am I part of the disease?
# Singin'
# Yo-o-o-ou
# Are
# Yo-o-o-ou
# Are
# Yo-o-o-ou
# Are
# Yo-o-o-ou
# Are
# Oh, and nothing else compa-a-a-res
# Oh, and nothing else compa-a-a-ares
# Oh, and nothing else compa-a-a-a-ares
# Oh, no... #
Oh!
# Home, home
# Where I wanted to go
# Home, home
# Where I wanted to go. #
CHEERING
I would much rather be dumped by text than in person.
That's an interesting one.
I just think it's much better cos it's a very emotionally charged time
unless you really hate them.
Yesterday, you were saying we were going really well together.
Did you read your text?
Have you not got any sad music, Greg? Computer's broken, sorry.
If only we had someone who was famous for doing sad music!
ALL LAUGH
I think he's talking about you! Oh, yeah!
I'd rather you weren't dumped at all.
INTRO TO "FIX YOU" PLAYS
Well, you know, when times get rough,
what I like to do is think, you know, try your best.
Right, Greg, stop that, please! OK, sorry.
We've all been dumped, of course.
I got dumped once, and that's when my addiction to chocolate began.
Do you want the music again or...?
Yes, I'd like the music, please.
This is 1994.
Right. I was quite religious
so I didn't necessarily know what to do in terms of relationships,
and a younger woman had very kindly agreed to go out with me,
or the boarding school version of that, but after not such
a long time, she took me to the cafe
and I'd just got some mini eggs from the supermarket.
I love mini eggs. Who doesn't?
That's not what this is about.
Um...
She sat me down, she said, "I don't think it's working."
And I said, "But I'm very religious."
And she said, "Well, let's just be friends."
I said, "Do you know what? At least I've got chocolate.
"I've got mini eggs."
And that's the end of that story.
Wow. That was good timing.
Good timing, yeah.
That is a true story.
Could have a number one hit from that. You would have thought,
but it only got to the low 40s in America, that one.
Ohh. Breaking up is just hard whatever way.
Hmm. But I'm happy that I got told in person.
What do you think, Jon?
Yeah, I mean...
I suppose I'd be a bit sad if that's how my marriage ended.
Wow!
Wow, Jonny! Wow!
I'd definitely rather that was in person!
No doubt.
No, come on. This is...
That's taking it to a whole other level. Yeah.
This is just a fun radio game.
Yeah...
It's gone deep.
CHEERING
# When you try your best but you don't succeed
# When you get what you want but not what you need
# When you feel so tired but you can't sleep
# Stuck in reverse
# And the tears come streaming down your face
# When you lose something you can't replace
# When you love someone but it goes to waste
#What could be worse?
# Lights will guide you home
# And ignite your bones
# And I will try to fix you
# And high up above or down below
# You were too in love to let it go
# But if you never try you'll never know
# Just what you're worth
# Oh
# And lights will guide you home
# And ignite your bones
# And I will try to fix you
# Oh-oh-oh-oh
# Oh-oh
# Oh-oh-oh...
# Sing it!
# Tears stream down your face
# When you lose something you cannot replace
# And the tears stream
# Down your face and I-I-I
# I said tears stream down your face
# I promise you I will learn from my mistakes
# And tears stream
# Down your face and I-I-I
# Lights will guide you home
# And ignite your bones
# And I will try... #
Thank you very much, Top Of The Pops.
# Woo-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh
# When she was just a girl
# She expected the world
# But it flew away from her reach
# She ran away in her sleep
# And dreamed of para-para-paradise
# Para-para-paradise
# Every time she closed her eyes
# Woo-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh
# Whoa-oah-oah, oah-oah-oah-oah-oah
# When she was just a girl
# She expected the world
# But it flew away from her reach
# The bullets catch in her teeth
# Life goes on, it gets so heavy
# The wheel breaks the butterfly
# Every tear a waterfall
# In the night, the stormy night
# She'd close her eyes
# In the night, the stormy night
# Away she'd fly
# And dream of para-para-paradise
# Para-para-paradise
# Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh
# She'd dream of para-para-paradise
# Para-para-paradise
# Oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh-oh... #
Yes, sir!
Let's sing it up!
Woo!
# Singin' la-la, la-la-la-la-la
# La-la-la, la, la-la, la-la-la
# So lying underneath those stormy skies
# She'd say, "Oh, oh-oh-oh-oh
# "I know the sun must set to rise"
# This could be para-para-paradise
# Para-para-paradise
# Oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh-oh
# This could be para-para-paradise
# Para-para-paradise
# Oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh-oh
# Oh, oh, oh-ooh!
# This could be para-para-paradise
# Para-para-paradise
# Oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh-oh
# Woo-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh
# Woo-ooh-ooh-ooh Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh. #
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Thank you, everybody!
Three, two, one.
Hey!
# Sometimes I just can't take it
and it isn't all right
# I'm not gonna make it
# And I think my shoe's untied
# Oh-oh
# I'm like a broken record
and I'm not playin' right
# Drocer nekorb a ekil mi
# Till you tell me on a heavenly phone
# To hold tight Hold tight
# Come on Come on
# Oh-oh-oh, oh, oh, oh-oh
# Come on Come on
# Hey!
# Oh-oh-oh, oh, oh, oh-oh
# Hold tight Hold tight
# Oh-oh-oh, oh, oh, oh-oh
# "It's all right, it's all right", you said
# I've got my hands up shakin' just to let you know
# That you've got
# A higher power
# Got me singin' every second
# Dancin' every hour
# Oh, yeah, you've got
# A higher power
# And you're really someone
# I wanna kno-o-o-ow
# Oh-oh
# This boy is electric Mmmm
# This boy is electric and you're sparklin' like
# The universe connected
# And I'm buzzin' night after night after night
# This joy is electric Mmmmm
# This joy is electric and you're circuiting through
# I'm so happy that I'm alive
# Happy I'm alive at the same time as you
# Cos you've got
# A higher power
# Got me singin' every second
# Dancin' every hour
# Oh, yeah, you've got
# A higher power
# And you're really someone
# I wanna kno-o-o-w
# I wanna kno-o-o-ow, whoa-oh
# Yeah, you've got
# Whoa, you've got a higher
# Yeah, you've got
# Yeah, you've got a higher
# Yeah, you've got
# Yeah, you've got a high, whoa
# Oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh
# Oh, you've got
# Yeah, you've got a high
# You've got
# Yeah, you've got a higher
# You've got
# Oh, you've got a high
# Hands up shaking just to let you know now
# You've got
# A higher power
# Got me singin' every second
# Dancin' every hour
# Oh, yeah, you've got
# A higher power
# You're once in any lifetime
# I'm going a million miles an hour
# When for so long
# I'd been down on my knees
# Then your love song
# Saved me over and over
# For so long
# I'd been down on my knees
# And your love song
# Floats me o-o-o-o-n
# Ee-oh-h-h-h
# Whoa. #
Now, let's have a brand-new group.
They've been on the NME - a sort of new exciting tour -
and now, we have them in this room. Please welcome...
..Coldplay!
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
# Look at the stars
# Look how they shine for you
# And everything you do
# Yeah, they were all yellow
# I came along
# I wrote a song for you
# And all the things you do
# And it was called "Yellow"
# So then I took my turn
# Oh, what a thing to have done
# And it was all yellow-w-w-w
# Your skin
# Oh, yeah, your skin and bones
# Turn into something beautiful
# And you know
# You know I love you so
# I swam across
# I jumped across for you
# Oh, what a thing to do
# Cos you were all yellow
# I drew a line
# I drew a line for you
# Oh, what a thing to do
# And you were all yellow-w-w-w
# And your skin
# Oh, yeah, your skin and bones
# Turn into something beautiful
# And you know
# For you, I'd bleed myself dry
# It's true
# Look how they shine for you
# Look how they shine for
# Yeah, look how they shine for you
# Look how they shine for you
# Look how they shine
# Look at the stars
# Look how they shine for you
# And everything that you do. #
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
# You You are
# You are my universe
# And I I
# Just want Just want
# To put you first
# You You
# You are You are
# My universe
# And you make my world light up inside
# My universe
# Ooh
# My universe...#