Adventure of a Lifetime

The lead track from A Head Full Of Dreams, this groove-laden disco number was released on November 6, 2015. The song was written by Coldplay with the Norwegian record producing and songwriting team Stargate, who have also worked with Rihanna and Katy Perry. Guitarist Jonny Buckland told Q magazine about Stargate's contribution to the tune. "They'd always come back with something interesting, something we'd never come up with," he said. "Like the cut-up vocal on 'Adventure Of A Lifetime.' We'd worked on that song for a long time and it was quite fragile. We had to keep pruning it."

"Adventure" finds a newly reinvigorated Chris Martin singing about finding love and feeling alive again. Coldplay's previous album, Ghost Stories, was a downbeat affair featuring broody electronica tracks, inspired by Martin's 'conscious uncoupling' from his ex-wife, Gwyneth Paltrow. However, A Head Full of Dreams is a far more colorful, uplifting record. Speaking to Nick Grimshaw on BBC Radio 1, Martin described the LP as, "the sound of us being free and happy and very grateful to be in our group."

Bassist Guy Berryman told Q magazine the song, "started as a freeform musical session and was called something else, 'Legends' or something. It had a different chord sequence and different hooks and one-by-one things were taken away and things got added." Chris Martin added: "I was asking the rest of the band to start something and I'll see if a song comes out from it, so not everything comes from me," frontman Chris Martin said of the song's starting point. "That's how 'Magic' came about. On this album it happened with 'Adventure Of A Lifetime.' It came from Jonny's riff. I was the last person on there."