O (Coldplay song)

"O"
Song by Coldplay from the album Ghost Stories
Recorded 2012–14
The Bakery and The Beehive
(London, England)
Genre
Length
  • 7:47 (standard edition)
  • 5:24 (Target deluxe edition)
  • 3:54 ("Fly On")
  • 1:29 ("O")
Label
Writer(s)
Producer(s)

"O" (also known as "O (Fly On)") is a track recorded by British alternative rock band Coldplay for their sixth studio album Ghost Stories (2014). It appears as the ninth and final song on the album. It is divided in two different songs: "Fly On" (0:00–3:54) and "O" (6:18–7:47), in the standard edition of Ghost Stories between the two songs there are more than two minutes of silence while in the Target deluxe edition there is no silence. The song has charted in England and in France. A live version of the track recorded at the Royce Hall of Los Angeles appears in the Ghost Stories Live 2014.

Composition

"Fly On"

"Fly On" is the hidden song at the beginning of the track. It is a piano ballad.[1][2]

"O"

"O" is an ambient piece at the end of the track. It begins with the same angel choir of the album opener, "Always in My Head". In the song Chris Martin can be heard repeating "Don't ever let go" through a vocoder. Additional vocals from Martin's children, Apple and Moses, are featured in the song.[3] Martin, in an interview with Zane Lowe, defined "O" his "favourite piece of music made by Coldplay". He also stated that the song includes the message of the album: "Never give up".[4] A different version of "O", called "O (Reprise)", appears at the end of the Target deluxe edition of Ghost Stories, sold by Target only in the USA,[5] and as the final track in the A Sky Full of Stars EP. This version leaves behind its synth base in favour of a Western-influenced guitar rhythm.

Personnel

Credits are adapted from Ghost Stories liner notes.[6]

Coldplay
Additional musicians
  • John Metcalfe – strings arrangement, conductor
  • Apple Martin – additional vocals (song "O")
  • Mabel Krichefski – additional vocals (song "O")
  • Moses Martin – additional vocals (song "O (Reprise)")
Technical personnel
  • Paul Epworth – production
  • Coldplay – production
  • Daniel Green – production, mixing (track 7)
  • Rik Simpson – production, mixing (track 7)
  • Mark "Spike" Stent – mixing (track 1-6, 8, 9)
  • Geoff Swan – assistant mixing (track 1-6, 8, 9)
  • Mike Dean – "extra magic" [sic] (track 6)[7]
  • Madeon – "extra magic" (track 1, 9)[8]
  • Ted Jensen – mastering
  • Olga Fitzroy – engineering
  • Matt Wiggins – engineering
  • Jaime Sickora – engineering
  • Chris Owens – engineering
  • Joe Visciano – engineering
  • Tom Bailey – additional studio assistance
  • Fiona Cruickshank – additional studio assistance
  • Nicolas Essig – additional studio assistance
  • Jeff Gartenbaum – additional studio assistance
  • Christian Green – additional studio assistance
  • Joseph Hartwell Jones – additional studio assistance
  • Pablo Hernandez – additional studio assistance
  • Neil Lambert – additional studio assistance
  • Matt McGinn – additional studio assistance
  • Adam Miller – additional studio assistance
  • Roxy Pope – additional studio assistance
  • John Prestage – additional studio assistance
  • Bill Rahko – additional studio assistance
  • Kyle Stevens – additional studio assistance
  • Dave Holmes – management

Charts

Chart (2014) Peak
position
France (SNEP)[9] 107
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[10] 108

References

  1. ↑ "Ghost Stories' review - Spin". Spin.com.
  2. ↑ "Coldplay's Haunted 'Ghost Stories' Album: Track-By-Track Review - Billboard". Billboard.com.
  3. ↑ "Daily Mail".
  4. ↑ "Chris Martin. Zane Lowe. The Full Interview".
  5. ↑ "Target - Ghost Stories Deluxe".
  6. ↑ Ghost Stories (booklet). Coldplay. Parlophone. 2014. 825646299133.
  7. ↑ Coldplaying.com Chris Martin interview transcription: "[About "Another's Arms"] so we called [Mike Dean] up and asked if he would help out and he said, well, ‘i’m free until 5, I’ll do some bass!’"
  8. ↑ Wikipedia "Madeon" article. Although credited as just "extra magic" on the album notes, he worked on the ambient noises on tracks 1 and 9 alone.
  9. ↑ "(in French) Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique". Leschart.
  10. ↑ . Zobbel.de http://www.zobbel.de/cluk/140531cluk.txt. Missing or empty |title= (help)
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