That documentary ends with the Manchester band’s two shows at Knebworth Park in August of 1996, which combined sold over a quarter-million tickets.
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Whitecross has been filming the group for over 20 years now, from their first club gigs to their most recent tour, as well as capturing their recording process and directing several music videos.Ī Head Full of Dreams comes after Whitecross’s fantastic 2016 film, Oasis: Supersonic. Coldplay has sold over 77 million albums and still play stadiums around the world. Whitecross has since made films including the political documentaries The Road to Guantanamo and The Shock Doctrine. Whitecross came to school wanting to be a filmmaker, they wanted to be in a band.
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He met the group’s eventual four members shortly after they all arrived as first-year students at University College London. Whitecross had lots of material to draw from for A Head Full of Dreams, which was released through Amazon Prime last Friday. There’s footage of Martin laying on the stage at soundcheck, distraught over the New York Times’ 2005 lashing that called them “the most insufferable band of the decade.” But there’s also plenty of footage of their boundless ambition and dogged determination, even back when Martin sported braces and a mop of curly hair. A Head Full of Dreams (which shares its name with the group’s 2016 album) doesn’t dispel this notion.
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Over their extraordinarily successful career, Coldplay in general and Martin in particular have gotten the reputation for being … sensitive. Martin replies he hasn’t and isn’t going to, because he’d probably just tell Whitecross to cut out all the parts with him in it. Whitecross asks Martin if he’s watched the edit of the film that he sent over. At the start of the new documentary Coldplay: A Head Full of Dreams, director Mat Whitecross plays a recording of a telephone conversation between him and the band’s front person, Chris Martin.