2000: ‘Parachutes’ - The band’s debut featured their globe which Coldplay took on tour with them during their early days. Taken by the band using a basic Kodak camera, it made for a highly poignant cover. The band claim they bought the globe for £10 from WHSmiths, making this surely one of the cheapest album covers of all time.

2002: ‘A Rush Of Blood To The Head’ – Considered by many as Coldplay’s finest album, the artwork features a computer generated graphic image, variants of which were used on the singles the album spawned. Perhaps not their greatest sleeve.

2005: ‘X & Y’ – The band drafted in the Chemical Brothers designers Tappin Gofton for this cryptic sleeve. Using the Baudit Code – an alphanumeric cipher – the sleeve depicts the words ‘X’ and ‘Y’ in lovely colourful blocks. It baffled many.

2008: ‘Viva La Vida’ – as above, the band used a classic painting by French Romantic painter Eugène Delacroix from 1830 called ‘Liberty Leading The People’ (La Liberté guidant le people). Perhaps, this reflects their political intentions.