It took a while to do something about it, but Viva La Vida, their fourth and best album ... is a guitar-based charger that would be an instrumental were it not for Martin wailing incomprehensibly ...

“Viva La Vida” is certainly impressive as sheer ... claiming that the band had plagiarized his 2004 instrumental “If I Could Fly.” (The two songs do share a melody, but I have a hard ...

Vida La Vida begins with an ambient, celestial instrumental track, which reappears later as the song “The Escapist.” “Cemeteries of London” comes cloaked in intrigue, a tour around ...

To add fuel to Satriani's fire, Coldplay's CD Viva La Vida is a No. 1-selling album ... but work in different genres — Satriani's a rock instrumental and Coldplay's a more mainstream pop song.