The director of this video is Dougal Wilson.
James Clarkson and Coldplay's fifth member, Phil Harvey, can be seen in the video. The girl looks down at the tiny drumsticks in her hands and smiles. Finally, after finishing the song, the puppet band members board a miniature helicopter and after taking off, drummer Will Champion tosses his drumsticks to the girl in the audience before the helicopter crashes through a window as they fly away.
The puppet show becomes increasingly extravagant as the video goes on, eventually featuring pyrotechnics, frontman Chris Martin crowd surfing over the children, and Punch and Judy performing motorcycle stunts across the stage. A girl in the audience recognizes the band members as she looks back and forth between them and the cover of a book she is holding, which is a fictional "unofficial biography" of Coldplay called "Playin' It Cool". Suddenly, the band appears as puppets "onstage" and begins performing the song, which confuses and somewhat unsettles the children and the adults in the room. The video starts out with a group of children sitting and awaiting a traditional Punch and Judy puppet show in the Aldenham War Memorial Hall. The music video premiered on 20 January 2009 on 4Music and Channel 4. Ĭoldplay performing "Life in Technicolor II" at the Parque Simon Bolivar, Bogota, Colombia, on March 4, 2010 The track was nominated for " Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal" and " Best Music Video" at the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards. While the promotional CD includes two different edits of the song ("Radio edit" & "Prospekt's March Version"), the vinyl includes a previously unreleased and unheard track called "The Goldrush", one of the few Coldplay songs featuring lead vocals by drummer Will Champion. The loop is then repeated through the verses and part of the chorus.Ī promotional CD single was released in December 2008 while the 7" vinyl and digital download came out on 2 February 2009. The songs starts with a loop consisting of a santoor accompanied by tabla-like percussion. It is the full-vocal version of the instrumental track "Life in Technicolor", from the band's fourth studio album Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends.
" Life in Technicolor II" (stylised as " Life in Technicolor ii"), is a song by British rock band Coldplay released as the first single from the Prospekt's March EP.
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