Chris Martin refused to sing songs about “evil or the Satan” when he was a teen.
Chris Martin has spoken about his aversion to singing songs referencing the Satan as a teen
The 48-year-old Coldplay frontman grew up with Christian values having attended Exeter Cathedral College, and later boarded at Sherborne College, a former monastery in Dorset, and so when he was requested to sing songs like Sympathy For The Satan by The Rolling Stones, he felt it wasn’t acceptable.
Showing on the #ABTalks podcast, he stated: “There are a few songs after I was 15 that I wouldn’t sing.
“I used to be in a band and so they needed to do some covers and I stated, ‘I don’t suppose I can sing that,’ as a result of they had been about evil or the Satan. Now I realise it was only a tune.”
Chris household attended Belmont Chapel, a conservative evangelical church, and spiritual teachings had been very a lot a part of his upbringing.
Nonetheless, later in life, he branded himself an “alltheist”.
Talking in a 2021 interview with Howard Stern, he defined: “My God, for me, is all issues and all. God is all over the place and everybody and it’s additionally the unknowable, the huge majesty behind every part. And it’s simply the purpose the place you get to the place the place you may’t suppose any additional—that’s the place I feel God is.”
Coldplay’s songs have additionally touched on religion and spirituality, together with We Pray, Repair You, Paradise and Viva La Vida.
Elsewhere throughout the interview, Chris defined why he pertains to Homer Simpson from the enduring sitcom The Simpsons.
He stated: “I’ve to say Homer Simpson. I simply suppose he’s one of the fantastically constructed characters in all of creativity as a result of he’s so human and does silly issues and makes errors, however his coronary heart is sweet.
“He’ll at all times make the best choice ultimately. He’s indignant and stuffed with all of the feelings, however in the end he’ll at all times do the best factor.”
Chris truly appeared within the 2010 episode Million Greenback Perhaps, performing Viva La Vida for Homer and his son Bart Simpson at a non-public live performance.
