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So to hear a whiny-voiced Chris Martin begging вЂњtell me you love meвЂќ in 2014, comes as a quite a relief.

In fact, it was at that very Earls Court gig that I recall Coldplay first slipping away from my grasp: they stopped playing Shiver, a song heavy with the weight of an adolescent hurt and yearning.

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I have a shoebox full of pixellated A4 photos of the band that I printed out at school in 2000 and used to look at between lessons, and I once spent my pocket money on hiring a mini bus to take me from Essex to Earls Court to see them play. I own an ultra-rare and completely worn-to-the-core Christmas EP entitled Mince Spies.

Perhaps it is important to point out here that I am an unconditional fan of the band: I was one of the few subscribers to ColdplayвЂ™s early, print-only fanzine Coldplayground. My reaction, however, is to simply rejoice: there is still a bruised and beating heart within that Chris Martin-shaped body suit. For some, the album is too transparently autobiographical, too gaudy in its tales of lonesome nights and longing. ItвЂ™s no surprise that the early feedback on Ghost Stories, ColdplayвЂ™s sixth album which is written exclusively, unequivocally about a coupleвЂ™s breakdown, has been dismissive. Prior to news of their conscious uncoupling, Paltrow and MartinвЂ™s world seemed to be one long red carpet ride through Hollywood premieres and sell-out stadiums, with one eye on the hottest nut-based recipes and the other on their children.

ItвЂ™s impossible to prevent a landslide of snarky comments when discussing the lives of Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow, whose existence appeared to be held together with a thick glue of global success, vegan snacks and Aryan beauty.