COLDPLAY - CHRIS MARTIN: 'WE'RE SLAVES TO EMI'

COLDPLAY frontman CHRIS MARTIN has blasted music company EMI GROUP PLC for pressing his band to improve the corporation's stock price by selling millions of copies of their new album X+Y.

Martin refuses to be intimidated by EMI, which owns Coldplay's record label CAPITOL, so has attacked the music giant for making him a slave to shareholders.

He complains, "I don't really care about EMI. I'm not really concerned about that.

"I think shareholders are the great evil of this modern world. I'm not comfortable with the slavery that we are all under to shareholders.

"It's very strange for us that we spent 18 months in the studio just trying to make songs that make us feel a certain way and then suddenly become part of this corporate machine.

"Deadlines mean nothing to us. We'll sink the whole company (EMI) if we have to."