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"Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends" is the fourth studio album by British band Coldplay.
The album's title "Viva La Vida" comes from a painting by Frida Kahlo and translates to 'long live life'. However, the painting on the cover is by French painter Eugene Delacroix.
"Viva La Vida" debuted on the Billboard Album Chart at number one and singles include Violet Hill and the title track. The album's producers include Brian Eno, Markus Dravs, Rik Simpson and Jon Hopkins.
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Track List: 1. Life In Technicolor
2. Cemeteries Of London
3. Lost!
4. 42
5. Lovers In Japan
6. Yes
7. Viva La Vida
8. Violet Hill
9. Strawberry Swing
10. Death And All His Friends
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Rolling Stone says:
Coldplay's fourth release has been billed as their experimental record, as well as their political record. And it is both, relatively speaking. Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends opens with an anthemic riff played not on guitar but on a Persian santur - a hammered dulcimer common to the traditional music of Iraq and Iran. The album's lead single, "Violet Hill," describes a scene in which "priests clutched onto Bibles/Hollowed out to fit their rifles." Half the album's tracks float images of war, while others evoke God, religion or death.
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