“Hurts Like Heaven” by Coldplay

"Hurts Like Heaven" comes from Mylo Xyloto, Coldplay's fifth album, released in 2011, and all four members wrote it with producer Brian Eno, though Chris Martin was quick to say it was largely Jonny Buckland's doing. He told The Independent the song was all Jonny, a two-chord rush from a guitarist he said was coming out of his cocoon, on a record where the band was trying risky things.

Martin sings lead and plays piano and acoustic guitar, Buckland plays electric guitar, Guy Berryman bass and Will Champion drums, while the other three stack up the backing vocals. It became the album's last single in 2012, used to promote the comics spun from the Mylo Xyloto story, and in 2013 the band announced it as a limited seven-inch for Record Store Day, with a live "Us Against the World" on the flip.

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