Famous Old Painters
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Famous Old Painters is a song written during sessions for Coldplay's fourth album, Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends, but was ultimately left off the album. The song came about around October 2007 when it was introduced alongside Glass Of Water in Prospekt's journal on October 29.
Prospekt has commented in the journal on coldplay.com that the song features a colliery brass band in the third verse.
The song title appears to reflect the general theme of the cover artwork for the album and its singles, Violet Hill and Viva La Vida, which all feature old paintings. The band also created many other paintings depicting different songs from the album.
Background to LP4
Famous Old Painters is one of several Coldplay songs that didn't make the final cut for LP4:
- Poppy Fields
- Leftrightleftrightleft
- Rainy Day
- Famous Old Painters
- Glass Of Water
- Prospekt's March
- Postcards From Far Away
- Lukas
- The Goldrush
- Now My Feet Won't Touch The Ground
- A Spell A Rebel Yell
- Lunar
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