(Cover) - EN Showbiz - Chris Martin's "life of crime" ended when his cousin got caught shoplifting.

The Coldplay frontman grew up in the UK and had a happy childhood. That didn't mean he never experimented though, as he was keen to test the boundaries.

He can vividly recall trying to steal from a store with his cousin when he was younger.

"My brother and I both shoplifted once and felt bad about it. Mine was pic'n'mix [sweets]," he explained. "I did it with my cousin but he tried to upgrade to a Mars Bar and got caught. The guy that caught him was f**king terrifying so that scared me off. That was the end of my life of crime."

Chris chatted about the memory as he was thinking of the first album he ever bought. It made him recall the first record his brother really cared about, and the lengths he went to in order to get the artwork for it.

"[The first record I bought was] possibly Hunting High and Low by A-ha," Chris told Q magazine. "My brother stole the cover of the Skid Row album from HMV because he had a recording of it on tape." (C) Cover Media