X&Y

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Release Date: 2005-06-06

Label: Parlophone

Issued with clear tray and 12-page booklet containing credits, photos and track list.
Some copies with rectangular dark blue sticker on top left corner of front cover, reading:
"COLDPLAY X&Y 3112802"

Some copies with circular sticker on bottom right of front cover, reading:
"in concert 13.7.05 MOON AND Stars ‘05 Locarno"

[Back]
℗ 2005 The copyright in this sound recording is owned by EMI Records Ltd.
© 2005 EMI Records Ltd.
Made in EU.
Printed in the EU.

[Booklet]
Recorded at Air Lyndhurst, Parr Street, CRC, Sarm West, Townhouse and The Hit Factory.
Mixed at Quad, N.Y.
Mastered at Sterling Sound, N.Y.

℗ 2005 The copyright in this sound recording is owned by EMI Records Ltd.
© 2005 EMI Records Ltd.
Made in EU.

[CD]
℗ 2005 The copyright in this sound recording is owned by EMI Records Ltd.
© 2005 EMI Records Ltd.
Made in EU.

Further hints>
"Talk" contains elements of the composition "Computer Love" by Kraftwerk.
Published by BMG Music Publishing Ltd. except X5 (Talk) published by BMG Music Publishing Ltd. /
Kling Klang Musik GmbH, admin by Sony ATV Music Publishing (Germany) GmbH /
Edition Positive Songs / Hanseatic Musikverlag GmbH / Warner Chappell Music.

The final track ("Til Kingdom Come") is a hidden track, not listed in the back cover tracklist, and listed just as "+" in booklet and disc label tracklists.

The image on the front cover is a colourful representation of a message encoded in the Baudot code, invented at the end of the 19th century for use in telegraphy and punched-tape teleprinters. It's supposed to read "X&Y" but due to an error it actually says "X9Y"! (The five columns can be read as binary numbers: 10111 is X, 11011 is shift, 00011 is 9 and 10101 is Y.)

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