He made me feel like it was OK to be obsessed with a record. Because heвЂ™s a very confident guy вЂ¦ I donвЂ™t know, he just made me feel really confident about the fact that we were trying to push ourselves a little bit. And sometimes Ian, because we became friends, heвЂ™d come in, and youвЂ™d feel all right about everything. вЂњThe only thing we were occasionally missing was some confidence. вЂњIan McCulloch really was a good influence on the record,вЂќ Martin said. In a 2002 interview with Yahoo Entertainment, Martin was much more effusive. For instance, ColdplayвЂ™s Martin and Jonny Buckland, respectively, played piano and guitar on McCullochвЂ™s solo album, Slideling, and they invited McCulloch to perform the BunnymenвЂ™s вЂњLips Like SugarвЂќ with them at ScotlandвЂ™s T in the Park festival. As a friendship formed, Coldplay later repaid the favor, multiple times. (вЂњThat was the best thing they ever recorded as well, due to my coat,вЂќ the always amusing and never humble McCulloch tells Yahoo Entertainment.) McCulloch was there to support Martin during the making of that breakthrough album and its follow-up, X&Y. Not only did their hit вЂњThe Killing MoonвЂќ reach a new generation when it was the soundtrack of the powerful opening scene of Donnie Darko, but the Bunnymen were also a massive influence on Coldplay, the most successful British band of the past 20 years.Д¬oldplay frontman and longtime Ian McCulloch admirer Chris Martin famously wore McCullochвЂ™s classic raincoat in the studio while recording вЂњIn My Place,вЂќ the lead single off ColdplayвЂ™s sophomore album, A Rush of Blood to the Head. Echo & the Bunnymen may not have become as popular in the States as their Second British Invasion peers like Depeche Mode or the Cure, but the Liverpool post-punksвЂ™ influence has been immense - recently explored in The Stars, the Oceans & the Moon, a compilation of reimagined rerecordings from their classic catalog.

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