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Coldplay Reveal 'Viva La Vida' Cover Art |
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Created On: Monday, 28 April 2008
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 Viva La Vida Cover
The band have used a classic painting by French Romantic painter Eugène Delacroix from 1830 called ‘Liberty Leading The People’ (La Liberté guidant le people).
It depicts a woman personifying Liberty in the French Revolution leading the army in their march over dead bodies holding the French tricolour flag aloft.
It’s currently on display in The Louvre in Paris.
Coldplay aren’t the first band to use the image on an album cover. In 1999 Japanese rock outfit Dragon Ash parodied the cover on the sleeve to their album ‘Viva La Revolution.’
The tracklisting for the record is as follows:
'Life in Technicolor'
'Cemeteries of London'
'Lost!'
'42'
'Lovers in Japan/Reign of Love'
'Yes'
'Viva La Vida'
'Violet Hill'
'Strawberry Swing'
'Death and All His Friends'
Coldplay also announce FREE shows in supporting their new album, the shows will take place at Brixton Academy in London on June 12th and New York’s Madison Square Garden on June 16th.
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