‘Viva la Vida’ not Plagiarized - Coldplay

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Popular band Coldplay has strongly denied a Brooklyn-based band’s accusation that Viva La Vida, the British group’s latest hit was copied from their own song.

The Grammy-winning band is enjoying another huge success with its present album Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends and its single Viva la Vida.

Creaky Boards, an unknown band from New York stated in an online video that the tune of the song is almost the same as their own track The Songs I Didn’t Write. The band also said that Coldplay frontman Chris Martin watched one of their gigs in 2007 and ‘enjoyed’ it.

But a Coldplay representative defended the band and said that the plagiarism accusation is highly unlikely as Viva la Vida was written and included in a demo in March 2007, about half a year ahead of Creaky Boards’ gig.

Another solid proof to dispute the unknown band’s claim, according to the representative, is Chris Martin’s diary which states that he was in AIR Studios in London when the October 2007 performance happened.

Coldplay has so far released four commercially successful albums. A Rush of Blood to the Head, the band’s second album, won the Grammy Award in 2003 for Best Alternative Music Album. A track from the same album, Clocks also earned the Grammy Record of the Year in 2004.

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