It’d certainly be an odd move for them, given their reputation as being some of the nicest guys in all of rock music, but shortly after Satriani’s filing, another music icon - Cat Stevens - publicly decried the fact that the exact same song stole portions from his own “Foreigner Suite”. After all, Coldplay stealing from another musician? That simply does not compute. In the story mentioned at the top of this review, Coldplay’s frontman Chris Martin says that he was warned: as soon as he had a chart-topping single, the litigation would come, and, ‘lo and behold, following the group scoring a trans-Atlantic Number One with what is arguably their best song to this point, “ Viva la Vida“, out comes rock guitarist Joe Satriani claiming that the band deliberately lifted a melody from his lesser-known track “If I Could Fly”. You know that you’ve fully engrained yourself into the very fabric of modern pop culture when you find yourself getting sued.
Chris Martin, USA Today (October 21, 2011)
Together, the words will mean what we make them mean with this music.” Mylo Xyloto doesn’t bring any meaning with it, so in that sense we’re beginning with a clean slate.
“We wanted to have something that didn’t mean anything else.
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