COLDPLAY'S SECRET BOND FLOP HITS THE AUCTION BLOCK
Chris Martin's lost 27-year-old demo for a James Bond theme is finally seeing the light of day—and the Coldplay frontman has NO regrets it never made the cut.
Plot twist: Coldplay once took a crack at writing a James Bond theme, and Chris Martin himself admits it was a total dud! According to Variety, a never-before-heard 27-year-old demo recording of "The World is Not Enough" is heading to auction—and yes, that's the same title as the actual Pierce Brosnan Bond flick from 1999. The catch? The track was reportedly written for the film but "understood never to have been submitted," per auction house Wax Poetics.
So what went wrong? Martin and the band apparently decided their Bond bid wasn't Bond-worthy enough to even bother sending in! The demo sat in the vault for nearly three decades before resurfacing now. Hey, even rock royalty can swing and miss—and honestly, we respect the self-awareness here. Not every genius move makes it to the finish line!
Fans of lost recordings and Coldplay deep cuts are already buzzing about the auction. It's a wild peek into the creative process of one of rock's biggest bands—proof that even the legends have their "what if?" moments locked away in the studio.
Sources · Variety