COLDPLAY - COLDPLAY TRASH 42 UNRELEASED SONGS

British rockers COLDPLAY have thrown out more than forty songs in preparation for recording the follow-up to international smash A RUSH OF BLOOD TO THE HEAD.

The YELLOW band have already started work on the new album, but decided to ditch all material that they felt didn't meet expectations.

Singer CHRIS MARTIN says, "So far all we've achieved is managing to scrap 42 songs. I regard that as constructive destruction.

"But numbers are insignificant. You could say, 'I've written 12 songs', and they're all rubbish, or you could say you've written one song and it could be BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY.

"It strikes me the more fame and success you get, the more you realise that the only thing that's really worth anything is the thing that made you want to get famous and successful in the first place.

"And that is writing tunes. The answer is putting down your favourite new song or being with the people you love the most.

"It's not about the bling bling aspect. We've got some tunes man, let me tell you that."