It's an unlikely collaboration, but Chris Martin has revealed that Kylie Minogue recorded a track for the new Colplay album.

Speaking exclusively to Q, Chris told how the band were in awe of Kylie when she joined them in the studio as a guest vocalist. But after a change of plan, the band decided not to use her contribution to the band's fourth album Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends.

In an interview for the July edition of Q (which is out on June 1), Chris said he decided to rethink his approach to the song on which the two Parlophone acts teamed up.

“Kylie is awesome,” said Chris. “She’s like Girls Aloud rolled into one. And then I took the song apart. Like a Corby trouser press. It’s now one of those half-finished models in a garage.”

When Kylie was in the studio with them, the rest of the band were “like that”, he said, feigning a swoon.

You can read Coldplay's track by track analysis of Viva La Vida on Q4music.com here