Coldplay’s ‘All My Love’ Video Honors Dick Van Dyke’s 99th Birthday

Chris Martin and Coldplay are giving all their like to Dick Van Dyke at the mythical performer’s 99th birthday.

On Friday (Dec. 6), the rock band unveiled a short-film-style tune video for its Moon Track ballad “All My Love” that specialize in the Hollywood icon’s existence and profession as Van Dyke celebrates his closing double-digit go back and forth across the solar. Directed by means of Spike Jonze and Mary Wigmore, the seven-minute visible displays the Mary Poppins megastar limberly dancing in a swimsuit and naked ft, appearing off his infectious humorousness and providing up musings about his non-public adventure in between pictures of Martin taking part in piano.

“I’m acutely mindful that I may pass any day now,” Van Dyke says at one level whilst taking a look again on previous circle of relatives footage and heirlooms from his expansive filmography. “However I don’t know why, it doesn’t fear me. I’m now not fearful of it. I’ve that feeling — completely towards the rest highbrow I’ve — that I’m gonna be all proper.”

The challenge used to be filmed on the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang actor’s area in Malibu. Towards the top, he’s joined by means of his prolonged circle of relatives, who applaud and provides the patriarch hugs throughout the monitor’s prime level.

On Thursday evening, Martin and Van Dyke gave the impression aspect by means of aspect on Jimmy Kimmel Reside! to percentage how the video got here in combination. “To let you know the reality, I didn’t know who he used to be,” Van Dyke informed Kimmel in regards to the name to make the video with the band. “I didn’t know who you had been,” Martin quipped again with a large smile. “I stated, ‘we’re searching for an previous man. Who’s the oldest man?’”

Martin then admitted that he’s a “tremendous fan” of the Hollywood legend and published that Van Dyke is (roughly) a neighbor and someday a couple of years in the past he invited the legend over for breakfast. If truth be told, the singer then busted out what he stated is his one and most effective influence: the dry snigger that Van Dyke did as previous banker Mr. Dawes in Mary Poppins, which cracked the actor up.

“This in reality is also essentially the most amusing factor I’ve ever completed. It makes me so thankful,” Martin stated. “It’s a large deal for me.”

A shorter model of the visible will arrive Dec. 13, the date Van Dyke formally turns 99.

The day prior, Coldplay will make its efficiency debut on the Billboard Track Awards reside from the band’s Track of the Spheres International Excursion prevent in Australia. The “All My Love” tune video comes about two months after Coldplay dropped its tenth studio album, Moon Track, debuting at No. 1 at the Billboard 200.