…. Another historic show
By Karen Gwee
Coldplay’s headlining set at Glastonbury 2024 was heavy on guests – here’s the full list of who joined the band at the Pyramid Stage on Saturday (June 29).
Coldplay invited out several friends and musicians to help them pull off their record-breaking fifth headlining set at Worthy Farm, starting with Victoria Canal who helped sing ‘Paradise’. Little Simz then came out to perform unreleased new song ‘We Pray’, which has a feature from Burna Boy (who is also a Glastonbury 2024 performer, but did not come out onstage).
Femi, his band girls, his son, Made in previous performance at Glasbury Festival 22-year-old Palestinian-Chilean singer Elyanna, helped with backing vocals on ‘We Pray’, and went on to help Coldplay perform ‘Arabesque’. Standing alongside Chris Martin and Femi Kuti – who’d performed on the Pyramid Stage earlier that day – they performed the cut off their 2019 album ‘Everyday Life’.
Then, Laura Mvula, came out to lead a choir in singing ‘Violet Hill’. And in the encore, actor Michael J. Fox emerged onstage to play guitar on ‘Humankind’ (which also featured the other guests who’d come out prior) and on ‘Fix You’.
Michael J. Fox, who famously played Marty McFly in the Back To The Future movies, retired from acting in 2020 and in recent years has opened up about living with Parkinson’s. During ‘Fix You’, Chris Martin sang “Go, , go!” as Fox played the guitar – a reference to Back To The Future.
