Michael J. Fox has responded to what he described as a “fucking thoughts blowing” look with Coldplay at Glastonbury’s Worthy Farm on Saturday (June 29).
Coldplay headlined the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury over the weekend and introduced out Fox as a shock visitor throughout the encore on an evening that additionally noticed them carry out an array of company together with Little Simz, Femi Kuti, Victoria Canal and Laura Mvula.
Canal helped to sing ‘Paradise’ on stage first, whereas Little Simz got here out subsequent to carry out unreleased new track ‘We Pray’, which additionally has a function from Burna Boy (who can be a Glastonbury 2024 performer, however didn’t come out onstage).
22-year-old Palestinian-Chilean singer Elyanna helped with backing vocals on ‘We Pray’, and went on to assist Coldplay carry out ‘Arabesque’. Standing alongside Chris Martin and Femi Kuti – who’d carried out on the Pyramid Stage earlier that day – they carried out the minimize off their 2019 album ‘On a regular basis Life’.
Mvula got here out to guide a choir in singing ‘Violet Hill’ whereas within the encore, Fox emerged onstage to play guitar on ‘Humankind’ (which additionally featured the opposite company who’d come out prior) and on ‘Repair You’.
Fox, who famously performed Marty McFly within the Again To The Future films, retired from performing in 2020 and lately has opened up about residing with Parkinson’s. Throughout ‘Repair You’, Chris Martin sang “Go, Johnny, go!” as Fox performed the guitar – a reference to Again To The Future.
Sharing footage of his time at Glastonbury on social media, Fox wrote: “Glastonbury all of the love and because of the @coldplay workforce who took such nice care of us.
“And plenty of due to Chris, Will, Johnny, Man and Phil. Oh yeah in case you have been questioning…it was f*cking thoughts blowing. There’s a time for each band and a band for each time. That is @coldplay’s time.”
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You possibly can view Coldplay’s full Glastonbury 2024 setlist right here – which additionally included ‘My Universe’ with projections of collaborators BTS on the Pyramid Stage.
In NME’s four-star evaluate of their Glastonbury set, Andrew Trendell famous Martin’s phrases concerning the competition: “I go searching and I see so many superb great folks from in all places, and that’s what makes Glastonbury the very best metropolis on the earth for my part,” he provides, honouring “probably the most peace-loving, love-making folks” that make up the Glasto populace. He admits that Coldplay have “stolen a lot of the ethos of Glastonbury’s imaginative and prescient”, and in consequence they turn into “a band of 100,004 folks”.”
He continued: “Will Coldplay high Glasto once more? 5 extra occasions? Who is aware of? Martin revealed a couple of years again that the band deliberate to cease making music in 2025, telling NME they’d a plan to make 12 albums; now quantity 10 ‘Moon Music’ is coming in October. There’s a query mark over the longer term, however tonight was a very good crack at making historical past with a set that felt like house.”
In the meantime, Tom Cruise and Simon Pegg have been filmed at Glastonbury becoming a member of a crowd in singing Oasis’ ‘Don’t Look Again In Anger’ forward of Coldplay’s headlining set.
Cruise and Pegg have been photographed alongside fellow actor Gillian Anderson and Mission Unimaginable director Christopher McQuarrie standing on a platform on the Pyramid Stage, ready to look at Coldplay’s set on Saturday.
In video shared by BBC 6 Music’s Matt Everitt, Cruise and Pegg are seen becoming a member of the gang under them in singing the refrain of ‘Don’t Look Again In Anger’.
Pegg was current at Glastonbury to introduce Shaun of the Useless for a Twentieth-anniversary screening alongside director Edgar Wright that very same day as a part of the competition’s Pilton Palais Cinema programming. Only a week in the past, Cruise was noticed attending Taylor Swift’s three-night Eras Tour run at Wembley Stadium.
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