Advance warning: this paragraph contains a clanging name-drop, apologies. A few years ago, I went on a walk across London with Coldplay frontman Chris Martin for a Q Magazine feature. Martin’s band were putting the finishing touches on their 2015 album A Head Full Of Dreams and he was explaining the importance of it being their seventh record.
First off, he said, the colour spectrum had seven colours in it and so with this being Coldplay’s seventh, he saw it as the end of their first spectrum. I nodded. And then he said that there were so many classic seventh records that he wanted this one to live up to it. I said, "Sorry, what?". "Classic seventh records," he repeated, and then he reeled a few off. And he was right. I’ve become mildly obsessed with it in the years since, the sort of thing I bore friends in the pub about. This week, I decided I would properly investigate and discovered that there’s loads of them. It’s actually quite weird. I’m sure I’ve missed some so maybe you can get in touch and put me right. Unfortunately, Coldplay’s seventh isn’t in this list. It wasn’t their finest (their eighth was quite good though!) but here are a collection of the seven wonders, the magnificent seven, seventh heaven etc for you to inject into the conversation and bore your friends just like I do...
