Chris Martin formed Coldplay because of Marty McFly

Chris Martin has explained what inspired him to start his band Coldplay.

As a guest on musician Kelly Clarkson’s talk show, he reminisced about his childhood in rural England. At that time there was no internet. So you came into contact with music via the radio, friends or the television. For example, the first song that Martin recorded was the title tune from “A-Team”, in which he held his cassette recorder in front of the TV. But one scene in a film particularly excited him: In the first part of Robert Zemeckis’ time travel trilogy “Back to the Future” there is this moment in which Marty McFly is standing on the stage at his future parents’ prom in 1954, himself grabbed the guitar and played the then unreleased rock ‘n’ roll song “Johnny B. Goode” by Chuck Berry. “That’s why I wanted to play in a band myself, because of this scene,” says Chris Martin today.

Attention, time travel paradox and thought experiment – if that’s true, one could argue, for example: Since Doc Brown stays in the Wild West in the third part, he will never have invented the flux capacitor in 1985, Marty would not have traveled to 1954, Chris Martin would have So never be able to see the scene and Coldplay shouldn’t even exist! At least not in the world of Back to the Future. In any case, we probably made it too easy for ourselves when we claimed that Marty McFly alone was to blame for Coldplay’s existence. In our world, both sides are good friends: actor Michael J. Fox, who suffers from Parkinson’s disease, visited Coldplay on stage at a concert in New Jersey in 2016 and performed “Earth Angel” and “Johnny B. Goode” with them. A moment too good not to have happened.

And if you still don’t like Coldplay: In a BBC interview in December, Chris Martin explained that Coldplay will probably not release any more albums after 2025. Their current album MUSIC THE SPHERES was released on October 15, 2021. Linus Volkmann listened to and commented on every track for us.