Coldplay film draws on 1,000 hours of footage

A Head Full Of Dreams weaves together more than 20 years of videos of the band and explores their good and bad times

(From left) Chris Martin, Jonny Buckland, Will Champion and Guy Berryman in Coldplay: A Head Full Of Dreams, a kaleidoscopic jaunt through the band's meteoric rise from playing seedy club gigs to their most recent stadium-filling world tour.
(From left) Chris Martin, Jonny Buckland, Will Champion and Guy Berryman in Coldplay: A Head Full Of Dreams, a kaleidoscopic jaunt through the band's meteoric rise from playing seedy club gigs to their most recent stadium-filling world tour. PHOTO: WARNER MUSIC SINGAPORE
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Coldplay: A Head Full Of Dreams, the documentary about the juggernaut British band, starts with a telephone call.

Film-maker Mat Whitecross asks frontman Chris Martin if he has watched the edit which he had sent.

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on December 05, 2018, with the headline Coldplay film draws on 1,000 hours of footage. Subscribe