Coldplay Deny Plagiarism Charge

Those accusations of plagiarism against Coldplay just won't go away, forcing Will Champion to give a furious defence of the group.

Poor old Coldplay. The group finally get the worldwide success they have craved for so long with their album 'Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends' when a queue of people developed claiming credit for their songs.

Joe Satriani believes the album's title track is a rip off of a track he composed. The guitar plucker has already issued legal papers against the band, which he even threatened to hand to the group personally at the Grammy awards.

Coldplay furiously denied these allegations, but were left shocked recently when Yusuf Islam (once known as Cat Stevens) claimed that the same track borrowed from his 'Foreigner Suite'. Could it be that Coldplay have finally written a track so thoroughly bland it sounds like every song ever written?

In a new interview Will Champion has stoutly defended the group, claiming any similarity is entirely accidental.

The drummer told Hamptonroads.com that Coldplay "haven't done anything wrong".

He said: "It's tough when people accuse you of stealing something when you know that you didn't. We accept that it's part of the territory and know it is only for some reason the successful songs that seem to be the ones that are accused of being stolen. So you go figure it out."

"There are elements of our music that I've heard in other people's music," he said, "but a very difficult thing to define. There are only eight notes in an octave and no-one owns them. There are probably about 12,000 songs that feature the exact same chord progression. I think it (plagiarism) lies on an intent to steal, which we certainly have never done and never would."

"It's unfortunate but it's the way people are. That's that. We're confident we haven't done anything wrong."

As ClashMusic previously reported Coldplay have begun working on new material. Champion himself has bought a drum machine and has begun writing songs in bizarre new time signatures, which are said to contain a rave influence.