David Bowie has reportedly turned down the chance to collaborate with Coldplay.
Lead singer Chris Martin has admitted in a video tribute to the icon at the BBC Music Awards that Bowie wasn't impressed by the song the group proposed for him.
He explained: "One time I sent [Bowie] a song to ask him to sing on it... he called me and said, 'It's not one of your best'.
"He's got very high standards and I appreciate that. It inspires the rest of us to keep our standards high."
Furthermore, Chris said he was a huge fan of Bowie's latest album 'The Next Day'.
"When that came out I was staggered, and also annoyed... like, 'Come on, it's not fair'. He's already got all these amazing songs and then this instant classic."
Earlier this month it was revealed that Coldplay are now working on what will be their "final" album.
The band confirmed that the seventh studio album 'A Head Full Of Dreams' is being recorded, and likened it to the final Harry Potter movie.
"We haven't told anyone this, but we're making an album called 'A Head Full of Dreams'. We're right in the middle of it.
"It's our seventh thing and we look at it as the last 'Harry Potter' book or something like that.
"Not to say that there won't be another thing one day, but this is the completion of something. It was great to go from 'Ghost Stories' right back in the studio."
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