Coldplay frontman Chris Martin has revealed that track A Sky Full Of Stars was inspired by Katy Perry.

During a short documentary for Beat x Beat -produced by Beats by Dre - the 37-year old singer revealed he was listening to a lot of K-Pez's music when penning the track.

[related]He explained: "I’ll tell you the truth, I was listening to a lot of Katy Perry. A lot of her songs have the same chord sequence the whole time… and then I realised a lot of other people have done that, Nirvana being a classic example, with Smells Like Teen Spirit."

Martin went on to add: "That song really ended up being inspired by EDM, which some people turn their nose up and then you go to see an EDM thing and people are together and having the best time. So I was like f**k it! I love that stuff.

"So I wanted to have a song that comes from that world. But in terms of, 'I'd really like to jump up and down to this,' we don't really know what we're doing."

He went on to joke: “I asked Avicii for help and he said ‘yeah’, with his backwards cap, and said 'that’ll be 12million dollars'…(laughing) no he didn’t.”