Pakistan, July 28 -- An unreleased demo of a James Bond theme song recorded by Chris Martin 27 years ago is set to go up for auction, giving fans a rare chance to hear one of the singer's early attempts to join the famous film franchise. According to auction details released by Wax Poetics, the recording is a demo version of The World Is Not Enough, which was written for but never submitted to the 1999 Bond film of the same name. The cassette features Martin singing over an acoustic arrangement and has never been publicly released.

Martin has previously revealed that Coldplay spent nearly two decades trying to create a Bond theme but never officially submitted any of the songs. Moreover, in a 2021 interview, he said the band had written ...