Coldplay Once Asked David Bowie To Collaborate … He Said No

David Bowie was so cool, even talking about getting rejected by him sort of sounds like bragging.

Coldplay drummer Will Champion told NME that the group once tried to get Bowie to collaborate on a song they thought had a “David Bowie-type character,” but the legend refused.

According to Champion, Bowie’s answer was, “It’s not a very good song, is it?”

But the band, who are the recent recipients of NME’s 2016 Godlike Genius Award, doesn’t hold it against him. “He was very discerning -- he wouldn’t just put his name to anything,” Champion said. “I’ll give him credit for that!”

This story has come up before, and in a previous iteration, Bowie was slightly less harsh with Coldplay. In 2014, frontman Chris Martin told Billboard that Bowie turned down the offer by saying, “It’s not one of your best,” suggesting that he did possibly think some of Coldplay’s songs were good.

The question remains: Which terrible Coldplay song -- assuming it’s a song that actually got produced -- did Bowie reject? Our money is on “Clocks.”

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