WHAT ON EARTH IS GOING ON IN CHRIS MARTIN'S HEAD?

Well, obviously, he'll be counting money and deciding what to spend all his new money on - can you buy a display cabinet for sanctimony? - but he's also fretting about old and new Coldplay fans:

"Our ambition is to have all those 15-year-old people, who got beaten up for liking us two years ago, is for them to have all the people that beat them up come over to them this year and say, 'We've just heard Coldplay's third album and you were right. We're sorry about that.'"

Wrong way round, surely? Martin seems to think that those people who snorted when their first album came out that they weren't a "proper" band will be forced to eat their words now that X&Y has been released.

But surely, it's the people who used to insist that Coldplay were a really worthwhile band with a great, creative future in front of them should be going round talking about taking space in The Times personals column to make public their acceptance that time has proven them wrong?

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