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Topics: Celebrity, Coldplay, Glastonbury, Music, Festivals
Niamh Spence
Topics: Celebrity, Coldplay, Glastonbury, Music, Festivals
Chris Martin surprised Glastonbury fans when he spoke during Coldplay's headline set this weekend.
The singer addressed the huge crowd while on stage during the band's record-breaking set at Worthy Farm on Saturday night (29 June).
Coldplay are now the only band to have headlined the iconic festival five times, but this year's set was made extra special with a celebrity guest who joined them on stage.
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The band invited Back To The Future actor Michael J Fox onto the stage with them as he appeared to play their hit 'Fix You' on guitar.
The actor, who has been public with his ongoing Parkinson's battle, performed the emotional track alongside the band to the crowds of thousands of festival goers.
Despite this incredible moment, it seems viewers at home couldn't help but notice one thing during Coldplay's set - Martin's accent.
The musician, who originally hails from Exeter in Devon, appeared to have adopted more of an American accent.
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He spoke to Glastonbury fans between performing hits like 'Yellow', 'Viva La Vida' and 'Paradise' but it wasn't the music that fans were most intrigued by.
Taking to social media, one person wrote: What the hell accent is that, Chris Martin?"
Another shared: "At what point did Chris Martin’s accent change into the voice of a c**p 1970’s TV detective?"
While a third questioned: "What's this weird faux American accent he's doing?"
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A fourth added: "Chris Martin’s accent is strange now when he talks. He does live in Malibu, California though which is probably the reason."
And someone else commented: "Is it me or Chris Martin's accent is very American. Still love his voice though."
Ahead of the headline show, Martin also revealed which song of the band's many hits is his personal favourite.
He said: "I have a definite answer for you. I don’t think it’s the best, but for me, it’s 'Fix You'."
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The singer added: "You could say it’s too soft or whatever, but… it does exactly what it says on the tin... even when I’m singing it, by the time I get to the end, I’m thinking, 'I like this'."
While Glasto has always had people attempting to gatecrash, 24 years ago gatecrashers descended the infamous festival in record numbers.
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It was so bad it resulted in the festival being cancelled the following year as ticketless punters swarmed the site, with fears at the time the chaos could kill off the festival altogether.
Luckily, as we know, Glasto is still going strong. Speaking to the Guardian in 2020, the festival's co-creator Michael Eavis explained: "The fence wasn’t good enough, the security was crap. So I was hauled over the coals by the police, who said: "You’ve got to get someone to organise your show. You’re a nice bloke and all that, but you couldn’t arrange something in a brewery, you know the saying?
"I said: ‘Fair enough. At least I can be guaranteed to get 150,000 people at the drop of a hat – I did get the knack of that!’”
Back in 2002, the ‘Fix You’ hitmakers won fans over as they played tunes from their upcoming second album.
Apparently, the band’s agent didn’t feel they were ready for it at the time, but Eavis insisted they headlined.
And I’m sure they’re glad they listened seeing as they’ve now got nine studio albums under their belt and millions in the bank, with their A Head Full Of Dreams Tour having grossed more than half a billion dollars in its two-year run. Impressive.
It was the feud no one saw coming, but in 2008 rapper Jay-Z responded to Noel Gallagher slagging off having ‘hip hop at Glastonbury’ in the most hilarious way.
The star opened up his infamous headlining set on the pyramid stage playing his own version of ‘Wonderwall’, which went down a treat with fans and spawned one of the most iconic moments in Glasto history.
Britain isn’t exactly known for its glorious sunshine and I think that’s especially the case when it comes to festivals, which often see punters squelching through mud in their wellies, pint in hand.
Glasto in particular has become synonymous with being pretty muddy, but 2016 really took the biscuit. Even the festival’s boss said ’in all 46 years, it hasn’t been as bad as this’ as things became an absolute logistical nightmare after weeks of rainfall beforehand.
The scenes were chaotic, to say the least. Festival-goers were filmed diving into the mud and struggling to wade through gloop in such a way that made going for a pint like climbing Mount Everest. Generally, everyone was just really trying not to fall on their ars*s.
It wasn’t a pretty sight, but of course Brits still managed to embrace the music and the photos and videos have since gone down in the Glasto history books.
The iconic band decided to take a more chilled approach to festival life by taking over the secret act slot on the John Peel stage in 2017.
However, as is usually the case with 'secret' gigs, word spread quickly as fans flooded to the stage in their droves to catch the band in action.
It was a far cry from their previous Glasto performance, which saw their headline show become marred with serious technical issues which majorly affected the sound.
In 2019 Kylie Minogue set the pyramid stage alight for her headline set, but she was actually meant to grace the stage much sooner.
14 years earlier, the pop princess was forced to cancel her slot after being diagnosed with breast cancer, making her appearance on the stage even more special for both her and fans.
Her set ended up being crowned the most-watched in Glastonbury’s history, raking in 3.9million watching at its peak, beating the likes of Ed Sheeran, Adele and even Beyoncé.
That same year, rapper Dave created probably one of the most meme-able Glasto moments when he brought a bloke called Alex on stage to perform ‘Thiago Silva’ with him, which he absolutely nailed.
Safe to say the moment went viral, with the then 15-year-old becoming known as 'Alex from Glasto'.
It's no surprise really given his unreal rapping skills and the fact that he was donning a bucket hat, FILA bag and Paris Saint-Germain shirt. Brilliant.