Coldplay have refuted, that's right refuted, not just denied, allegations that they lifted the melody for the title track on their new album from a song by an American indie band.
The frontman of a band called Creaky Boards, one Andrew Hoepfner, has claimed in a posting on the net that Coldplay's Chris Martin came to one of his gigs last year, and that now they have heard the song 'Viva La Vida' off the British band's new long player and found it uses the melody from one of their songs. Hoepfner writes: "We were flattered when we thought we saw Chris Martin in the crowd that night. He seemed pretty into it. Maybe too into it".
But Coldplay's people have refuted those claims, saying that Martin had written the title track to his band's new album by March last year, before he had ever come across Creaky Boards. So, that's that then.