Hollywood veteran Dick Van Dyke has landed his latest starring role a week shy of his 99th birthday, in the new music for a single Coldplay is claiming will be their last.
In October, Chris Martin told Rolling Stone that All My Love – from the band’s album Moon Music – would be their last-ever single release. “After this, there’s no more singles, because we don’t want to do that,” he said. “I’m so grateful for this song. I don’t know if and when it will connect with who or not, but for me, it’s a really important song.”
Enter: Dick Van Dyke. In the seven-minute director’s cut of the video (a shorter, four-minute version dropped today too), which is co-directed by Spike Jonze and set at Van Dyke’s Malibu home, the musical legend reminisces over his six-decade career while Martin takes to serenading him with the band’s piano ballad.
The musical legend’s extended family, shots of him dancing barefoot and scenes from his seminal Sixties sitcom The Dick Van Dyke Show all make appearances in the video, which sees a pensive Van Dyke reflect on the end of his life. “I’m acutely aware that I could go any day now, but I don’t know why, it doesn’t concern me,” the star of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang says in the video. “I’m not afraid of it. I have that feeling... that I’m going to be alright.”
Fans of Coldplay – who will perform 10 sold-out shows at London’s Wembley Stadium next summer – recently said they were “gutted” after missing out on tickets to the band’s Music Of The Spheres World Tour. To make the tour more accessible, the band announced a limited number of £20 tickets - but fans claim that tickets sold out in 10 minutes.
Watch the director’s cut of Coldplay’s single, All My Love, starring Dick Van Dyke, below.
