The Ghost of Music Past
Gwyneth Paltrow and husband Chris Martin claim that they are being haunted by the ghost of Adolphus White – a Royal College of Music professor who died in 1902. Coldplay star Chris is convinced the spectre affected his creativity while he was writing the band’s last album ‘X&Y’.
I hear his footsteps, late, within my house.
The clock ticks midnight like a vicious drum.
He’s come to tell me I’m a common louse.
Again. And that my music’s empty, dumb.
I tell him:
“Look at the charts, you ectoplasmic
git of music past!”
But he just moans: “I care not for your ‘charts’.”
A poor review in Q shocks less than this.
Broken, I cannot sing or bring myself
near my guitar. The cold plays through me when
I hear his footsteps, late, within my house.