WE IMAGINE THIS IS A JOKE

Chris Martin has apparently - oh god, let him be joking - revealed that Yellow was called Yellow because he wrote the song without a keyword, and was inspired by the "nearest book to him" - which was a Yellow Pages.

Now, while we can believe that the song was inspired by a telephone directory - although obviously you'd never expect the adaptation of a book to be quite as thrilling the original, he's surely got to be joking, hasn't he?

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