Acoustic recording of a song titled The World Is Not Enough included in wide-ranging auction featuring formative Coldplay recordings
A lost demo recording of a song Coldplay’s Chris Martin reportedly intended for 1999 James Bond film The World Is Not Enough is going up for auction, alongside other recordings from the band’s earliest years.
For the auction by Wax Poetics, the British producer Chris Allison is making available an archive of recordings the band made prior to their Allison-produced second EP The Blue Room, released in October 1999.
The World Is Not Enough is being sold as a single recording on a cassette tape, sung by Martin with an acoustic guitar backing. It has never been released, and it’s not known if it was even submitted for the Pierce Brosnan-starring film, whose theme song (also titled The World Is Not Enough) was recorded by Garbage.
Coldplay are on the record as James Bond fans. Responding to a question from a fan on their website, they said of the song Spies from 2000 debut album Parachutes: “The band very much had [Bond composer] John Barry (composer of the best theme songs in film & tv ever!) in mind and there was a Bond film in the pipeline,” the latter referring to The World Is Not Enough.
