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Coldplay star Chris Martin feels like Noel Gallagher's "little brother" who likes "ballet".
The 38-year-old frontman is close pals with the former Oasis guitarist and admits he thinks of the 'Wonderwall' hitmaker - who has a famously tempestuous relationship with his actual younger brother Liam Gallagher - as a sibling
Speaking of his "love" for the 48-year-old rocker - who features on song 'Up&Up' on Coldplay's new album 'A Head Full of Dreams' - Chris said: "I love Noel. I'm like his little brother who likes ballet. We've been blessed over the years to have mentors within music."
As well as Noel, Chris credits Jay Z and U2 frontman Bono to be with being big influences on him.
He added: "We've been blessed over the years to have mentors in music. I would count Noel, Jay Z and Bono."
As well as Noel, Beyoncé - Jay Z's wife - and Chris' ex-spouse also feature on 'A Head Full of Dreams'.
But the 'Sky Full of Stars' hitmaker - who is joined in Coldplay with Guy Berryman, Jonny Buckland and Will Champion - was particularly thrilled he got to work with one of his other musical idols, Merry Clayton, on the record.
The soul singer - who famously duetted with Sir Mick Jagger on the Rolling Stones hit 'Gimme Shelter' - added vocals for 'Up&Up' and 'Adventure of A Lifetime' on the new record, just weeks after being in a car crash that resulted in both her legs needing to be amputated at the knee.
He told The Sun newspaper: "It had been a dream to work with her so we just called her up.
"She came in a wheelchair and did her thing and then said, 'I just lost my legs.' We didn't know. She'd just come out of hospital the week before but was so full of joy, gratitude, love and life."

Red Hot Chili Peppers will headline Reading and Leeds Festival in August 2016.
The 'Under The Bridge' hitmakers will make a UK exclusive live return to the festival they consider the best to play in Britain.
When considering which British festival they would like to perform at next year, drummer Chad Smith revealed the band's answer was: "The simultaneous answer was Reading and Leeds."
Announcing the confirmation of Red Hot Chili Peppers - fronted by Anthony Kiedis - festival booker Melvin Benn said: "I'm thrilled to be able to announce Red Hot Chili Peppers as the first headliner for Reading & Leeds 2016, as a festival exclusive. Their incredible live show will be an unforgettable headline performance at the UK's biggest music festival. We've still got some really exciting names to announce and I can't wait to reveal the rest of the line up. It's going to be our best year yet."
Other bands to be announced are The 1975, who will perform songs from their much-lauded sophomore record 'I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It', which will be released prior to the festival in February 2016 .
Manchester band The Courteeners and rock outfit Twenty One Pilots will bring their exceptional live shows to Reading and Leeds, along with Mercury Prize-nominated punk-duo Slaves who promise to take their performance up a notch.
Slaves - Laurie Vincent and Isaac Holman - commented:
"It's always a pleasure to play at Reading and Leeds and it's an honour to be invited back to play again in 2016. The crowds have been good to us and we are always very grateful. The line up is always a gooden and we're looking forward to being part of it and taking things up another level this time. See you there xxx (sic)"
And RAT BOY - who are nominated for MTV's Brand New 2016 - will return to Reading & Leads.
The duo said: "It's gonna be lit!"
Elsewhere, bringing some heavy metal to the predominantly indie/pop event, Japanese metallers Crossfaith will bring their ferocious noise machine with them
Crossfaith said: "It is an absolute honour to be invited to legendary rock festival 'Reading & Leeds' three years in a row. We are always feeling your big love for us! Can't wait to party and rock with you guys! See you in da pit! Let's make history!"
Reading and Leeds returns on the weekend of August 26 and August 28, 2016.

One Direction have been nominated for the Worst Band prize at the NME Awards.
The 'Steal My Girl' hitmakers - Niall Horan, Louis Tomilinson, Harry Styles and Liam Payne - are up for the unwanted 'honour' along with Sleaford Mods, U2, Nickelback and 5SOS at the magazine's annual ceremony next year.
The boys are also dubiously up for the Music Moment of the Year due to their decision to go on hiatus.
Other incidents listed include Adele's record-breaking return, The Libertines' secret Glastonbury set, Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl breaking his leg on stage, Florence + the Machine headlining Glastonbury in Foo Fighters' place and Kanye West's performance at the BRIT Awards.
Elsewhere, Kanye is also nominated for both NME's Hero and Villain titles.
Away from the unwanted prizes, The Libertines and Wolf Alice lead the way with six nominations each
Both bands will go head-to-head for some of the biggest awards of the night, including Best British Band, Best Live Band, Best Track, Best Music Video and Best Fan Community.
Mike Williams, editor-in-chief of NME, said: "The NME audience has voted in its thousands, and once again have pulled together an exciting, diverse and in some places pretty surprising shortlist for the 2016 Awards.
"Will The Libertines crown their beautiful comeback with a couple of wins? Will Kanye be the hero and villain of the year? Can anyone stop the Adele juggernaut from pulverising everything in its path?
"All will be revealed once the people have had their final say. I'm really excited and can't wait for the big night."
The magazine's awards first started in 1953, one year after the launch of NME and has seen the likes of The Beatles, Blondie, Noel Gallagher and The Who perform at it.
The winners will be announced at the star-studded bash on February 17, 2016 at London's O2 Academy Brixton.

NME Awards 2016 full list of nominations:

Best British Band:
The Libertines
Foals
Wolf Alice
The 1975
Catfish and the Bottlemen
The Maccabees

Best International Band supported by Austin, Texas:
Tame Impala
Foo Fighters
The Strokes
The Killers
Alabama Shakes
Run The Jewels

Best New Artist:
Rat Boy
Hinds
Halsey
Yak
Lapsley
Formation

Best British Solo Artist supported by Pilot Pens:
Adele
Noel Gallagher
Ed Sheeran
Charli XCX
Florence Welch
Skepta

Best International Solo Artist:
Kendrick Lamar
Lana Del Rey
Taylor Swift
Courtney Barnett
Kanye West
Grimes

Best Live Band:
The Maccabees
The Libertines
Foals
Catfish and the Bottlemen
Royal Blood
Wolf Alice

Best Album supported by HMV:
'My Love Is Cool' Wolf Alice
'Marks to Prove it' The Maccabees
'To Pimp a Butterfly' Kendrick Lamar
'Currents' Tame Impala
'Art Angels' Grimes
'What Went Down' Foals

Best Track
'Adventure of a Lifetime' Coldplay
'Gunga Din' The Libertines
'I Can't Feel My Face' The Weeknd
'Shut Down' Skepta
'Giant Peach' Wolf Alice

Best TV Show:
The Walking Dead
Game of Thrones
American Horror Story
Peep Show
This is England '90
Gogglebox

Best Film:
Ex Machina
Spectre
Mad Max: Fury Road
Whiplash
Kill Your Friends
Beasts of No Nation

Best Music Film:
Amy
Montage of Heck
Straight Outta Compton
What Happened, Miss Simone
The Reflektor Tapes
New World Towers

Best Music Video:
'Bitch Better Have My Money' Rihanna
'Heart Of The Matter' The Libertines
'You're a Germ' Wolf Alice
'Ong Ong' Blur
'Cheer Up London' Slaves
'The Less I Know The Better' Tame Impala

Best Actor:
Tom Hardy
Eddie Redmayne
Nicholas Hoult
Stephen Graham
Idris Elba
Daniel Radcliffe

Best Actress:
Vicky McClure
Jennifer Lawrence
Emilia Clarke
Gemma Chan
Amy Schumer
Saoirse Ronan

Best Reissue:
'Five Years' David Bowie
'People's Instinctive Travels And the Paths Of Rhythm' Tribe Called Quest
'Loaded' Velvet Underground 'Sticky Fingers' Rolling Stones
'Under The Pink' Tori Amos
'Angel Dust' Faith No More

Best Book:
'I'll Never Write My Memoirs' Grace Jones
'M Train' Patti Smith
'Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink' Elvis Costello
'Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl' Carrie Brownstein
'Lucky' Professor Green
'Over The Top And Back' Tom Jones

Best Festival:
Glastonbury
Reading & Leeds
V Festival
T in the Park
Bestival
Isle of Wight

Best Small Festival:
Swn
Festival Number 6
Green Man
End Of The Road
Liverpool Sound City
Kendall Calling

Music Moment of the Year:
The return of Adele
The Libertines secret Glastonbury set
Dave Grohl breaks leg and carries on
Florence headlines Glastonbury
Kanye at The Brits
One Direction 'split'

Best Fan Community
Hurts
The Libertines
Muse
Catfish and the Bottleman
The 1975
Wolf Alice

Worst Band:
5 Seconds of Summer
One Direction
Little Mix
Sleaford Mods
U2
Nickelback

Villain of the Year:
David Cameron
Chris Moyles
Kanye West
Donald Trump
George Osborne
Simon Cowell

Hero of the Year:
Adele
Dave Grohl
Jeremy Corbyn
Florence Welch
Kanye West
Taylor Swift

Vlogger of the Year:
KSI
Vikkstar123
Charlie McDonnell
Joe Weller
Danisnotonfire
Savannah Brown

Dave Navarro has led tributes to the late Scott Weiland.
The Jane's Addiction guitarist posted a tribute to the Stone Temple Pilots frontman after it emerged he died in his sleep last night (03.12.15) aged 48.
He wrote on Twitter: "Just learned our friend Scott Weiland has died. So gutted, I am thinking of his family tonight."
It is not yet known what caused Scott's death but a statement on his Instagram page says he died in his sleep.
It reads: "Scott Weiland, best known as the lead singer for Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver, passed away in his sleep while on a tour stop in Bloomington, Minnesota, with his band The Wildabouts. At this time we ask that the privacy of Scott's family be respected."
Several other names from the world of music have also paid tribute to the former Velvet Revolver frontman, who leaves behind two kids, Noah, 15, and Lucy, 13, and his wife Jamie Wachtel.
Motley Crue's Nikki Sixx tweeted: "Sad to hear about Scott's passing.I hope it wasn't drugs.The saddest part of the story is his kids and family being left behind. RIP (sic)"
Former Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic wrote: "Really sorry to hear about Scott Weiland."
Blink 182's Travis Barker tweeted: "Very sad news, rest in peace #ScottWeiland #toosoon (sic)"
Vanilla Ice posted: "Tell me it's not true - Scott Weiland found dead... Stone Temple pilots (sic)"
Ryan Adams tweeted a link to Stone Temple Pilots song 'Sour Girl' and added the caption: " RIP Scott Weiland
"Universe, please take care of him (sic)"
Early reports suggested Scott - who has two kids, Noah, 15, and Lucy, 13 - was found dead on his tour bus last night while touring with his group Scott Weiland & The Wildabouts.
According to TMZ, the rockers were due to perform at the Medina Ballroom in Minnesota last night but the show was cancelled.

Busted are heading to Los Angeles to write their comeback hit.
The 'Year 3000' hitmakers - consisting of Matt Willis, James Bourne and Charlie Simpson - announced they're going on next Spring but before then, they'll be in the states penning tracks for the 2016 album and at least one "new song" that will be released soon and will kick off the tour with a bang.
Charlie - who rejoined the group 10 years after quitting - exclusively told BANG Showbiz: "The new music is going to be really good I think. We're going to LA in a couple of weeks to start recording and so we should have a new song out before the tour, and I'm excited about that."
Matt thinks their time apart has broadened their individual music tastes but he's looking forward to returning to their familiar "fun" style of music.
Speaking from the Cosmopolitan Ultimate Women Awards at London's One Mayfair,on Wednesday (02.12.15), he added: "The good thing about time, I think when you're younger your music tastes kind of define you, in a way, for a lot of us, and what you're into defines you. You have time you just listen to everything and take everything in and that's where we are right now. We're just making it cool, fun pop music."
And the tour will be just as "high-energy".
Charlie said: "We're enjoying life. It's a good place to be. We want it (tour) to be a fun show, a high energy show. It's going to be a fun day that, when we go in and start talking about the creatives of the show because you can literally do anything."

Scott Weiland has been found dead on his tour bus aged 48.
The former Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver frontman was touring with his group Scott Weiland & The Wildabouts when he was discovered at around 9pm last night (03.12.15), according to TMZ.
The rockers were due to play a gig at the Medina Ballroom in Minnesota last night but the show was cancelled.
Scott has struggled with substance abuse in the past but it's not yet clear what caused his death.
Jane's Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro took to his Twitter account to reveal he was "gutted" about the news.
He wrote: "Just learned our friend Scott Weiland has died. So gutted, I am thinking of his family tonight"
As well as his career as a singer for Stone Temple Pilots and supergroup Velvet Revolver, Scott also released four albums as a solo artist.

Blurred Vision's cover of 'Another Brick in the Wall' is "theirs", says Roger Waters.
The prog rock group - consisting of brothers Sepp and Sohl Osley and drummer Ben Riley - reworked the Pink Floyd classic hit which features on the band's 1979 rock-opera album 'The Wall', but hadn't yet asked permission from the band and weren't expecting the legendary bass player to give them his blessing to cover it.
Speaking exclusively to BANG Showbiz, vocalist Sepp revealed: "We went into the studio and met our producer Terry Brown - the legend himself - who took us under his wing and we started recording our own version of Pink Floyd's 'Another Brick in the Wall'.
"We sent it over to Roger Waters' camp because we didn't want to do anything without his permission. We had a gut feeling this was going to be huge and we didn't want to do anything until we got his blessing because he's our biggest hero. He not only gave us his blessing, but he said, 'From here on in this song is yours. Nobody needs to come to me any more, you own this rendition of 'Another Brick in the Wall'."
And Sepp thinks it was the moment that made his career, who he now counts as his "hero".
He continued: "In an essence our careers wouldn't have happened without Roger. Our hero that we grew up with turns out to be the one responsible for launching our career."
Meanwhile, the band also released a song and music video as a tribute to late Beatles star John Lennon with proceeds going to the WhyHunger charity - which the band are ambassadors for.
'Dear John' can be downloaded via blurredvisionmusic.com

Pink Floyd have released a limited edition EP titled '1965 - Their First Recordings'.
The record includes six songs that were written and recorded prior to them becoming an internationally recognised band and before their seminal 1967 album 'The Piper at the Gates of Dawn'.
The R&B-infused recordings feature four Syd Barrett originals including 'Remember Me', 'Lucy Leave', 'Double O Bo' and 'Butterfly', as well as Waters' track 'Walk With Me Sydney', and only 1000 copies were pressed to go on sale on Monday (30.11.15).
In a statement, the band said: "To mark 50 years since the tracks were recorded, Pink Floyd have released a limited edition set of two seven-inch singles containing the band's first recordings."
Pink Floyd's original line-up included the late Syd and Richard Wright, Roger Waters and Nick Mason - along with then-guitarist Rado Klose - can be heard on the seven-inch record.
Meanwhile, David Gilmour - who joined the band after Syd's departure in 1968 - has announced four more concerts at The Royal Albert Hall in London in September 2016 following his critically acclaimed five sell-out shows at the same venue this autumn.
Tickets for the shows - which take place on September 25th, 28th, 29th and 30th - go on sale from 10am on Friday (04.12.15).

Grimes insists she isn't a "pop star".
The 'Oblivion' singer followed up on the success of her 2012 debut album 'Visions' with the critically acclaimed 'Art Angels' this year, but she doesn't want her achievements to pigeonhole her as a mainstream musician and confessed she even "hates" the label.
The "shy" singer told NME magazine: "I hate the words 'pop star'. I don't make pop music. I'm on an indie label. I don't want to feel pressure to be a world-class singer, or a professional level dancer, or super beautiful. I'm not good at any of those things, and I'm very shy."
The Canadian songstress - real name Claire Elise Boucher - has been awarded NME's Album of the Year 2015 title for 'Art Angels' which features synthpop, keyboards and guitars is topped with sugary high-pitched vocals.
But the star says her "experimental" sound is closer to the likes '1979' hitmakers Smashing Pumpkins than it is to pop.
She said: "I just want to make what I want to make. No-one calls Smashing Pumpkins pop stars. No-one calls Trent Reznor a pop star. You can be experimental and have a big audience and not be pop."
Grimes is delighted to receive NME's album accolade and admits the success of both her last LPs seems "insane".
She told the magazine: "Everything seems so insane that I'm currently unable to process it all. Right now it's rather dream-like."