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Coldplay's Guy Berryman rows back on band retirement plan

Coldplay bass player Guy Berryman has hinted the band's plans to limit making music will change.

In news that will thrill their fans, the 46-year-old Scottish musician said he isn't taking lead singer Chris Martin's claim that the group will stop making albums after their twelfth record seriously.

He told Rolling Stone, "Chris is never going to stop writing, so I kind of take it with a little bit of a pinch of salt."

He continued, "We're still years away from any kind of retirement. But I think you have to have a plan. If you're running a marathon, you know you have to run 26 miles. But if somebody said to you, 'OK, start running and just don't stop,' it's quite hard to motivate yourself."

Berryman and Martin compose Coldplay alongside guitarist Jonny Buckland and drummer Will Champion and they have been releasing hits since 1999.

In October this year, Martin insisted the band would stop making albums after they released a twelfth record.

Promoting their tenth album, Moon Music which was released that month, the singer told NME, "The 12 album thing is very real, and it's a nice feeling. It doesn't mean we won't tour or finish some compilation things or outtakes or whatever. It just means that the main story is told."

He added, "That's just what feels really right. Just knowing that's happening supercharges all the work we're doing now."

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