Coldplay's Chris Martin Has a Boy

Tweet

Continuing their run of somewhat Biblically-themed monikers, Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, 29, and wife, Oscar-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow, 33, gave birth to a baby boy and named him Moses. The child, the couple's second, was born this past weekend in New York City. Paltrow's publicist confirmed the news.

The Martins have a daughter, Apple Blythe Alison, who will turn two years old in May. Martin and Paltrow were wed in a private ceremony in Santa Barbara, California, in December 2003.

Coldplay recently wrapped a winter jaunt with singer-songwriter Fiona Apple and former Verve frontman Richard Ashcroft, in support of their latest effort, X&Y. That album, the follow-up to 2002's A Rush of Blood to the Head, debuted at Number One last June, and has since sold more than three million copies.

• 
  MUSIC 100 Greatest Debut Albums
• 
  MOVIES 'This Is the End' Brings the Goods
• 
  TV The Women of 'Mad Men'
• 
  POLITICS No Price Big Banks Can't Fix

Song Stories

“Karma Chameleon”

Culture Club | 1983

Boy George has said this song was about standing by what you believe in. However, at the time, he was involved in a secret affair with Culture Club drummer Jon Moss. "Now people can understand the songs better," he said. "They were written about my relationship with Jon, and they were also written about being a gay man in a homophobic world." The lines "If I listen to your lies, would you say/I'm a man without conviction/I'm a man who doesn't know how to sell a contradiction," described his life at the time, he said. "I was selling this big lie."

More Song Stories entries »

Twitter