Coldplay consider rockumentary

Coldplay have so much documentary footage of themselves recording in studios around the world they hope to release a DVD - but frontman Chris Martin fears it's so boring the film will only last five minutes.

The British rockers, who release eagerly-awaited third album X&Y next month, are concerned their footage resembles The Beatles' rockumentary Let It Be, which saw the Fab Four during some legendarily tense recording sessions.

Martin says: "We've been documenting stuff from the beginning. There's a vault in London with 500 hours of us in the studio. One day we'll be able to whittle it down to a five-minute DVD. We could make our own Let It Be.

"In fact, it was really depressing. I remember a bit where George (Harrison) says to Paul (McCartney): 'I'll play whatever you want to play, or I won't play anything at all if it'll make you happy.'

"Right at the beginning of the album (X&Y) Guy (Chambers, Coldplay guitarist) said exactly the same thing to me.

"I remember thinking: 'This album's going wrong.' That was before we started again."