Michael J. Fox
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Michael J. Fox had a “f*cking thoughts blowing” time performing with Coldplay on the 2024 Glastonbury Pageant on Saturday.
The actor and Parkinson’s activist performed guitar on the band’s hit “Repair You” throughout the group’s headlining set on the UK music pageant final evening.
On Instagram Sunday, Fox thanked Coldplay’s group and bandmembers Chris Martin, Will Champion, Johnny Buckland and Man Berryman in addition to supervisor Phil Harvey.
“There’s a time for each band and a band for each time,” Fox wrote alongside a carousel of images, together with one with members of his group and him sitting in a wheelchair in entrance of an “optimism is a political act” signal. “That is @coldplay’s time.”
Fox additionally shared a photograph of an indication studying “Coldplay particular visitor” and a brief video of the band backstage.
Close to the top of the “Repair You” efficiency, Martin praised Fox, saying, “The principle cause we’re in a band is due to watching Again to the Future,” by which Fox’s Marty McFly performs guitar, memorably throughout the film’s 1955 faculty dance scene. “So thanks to our hero perpetually and probably the most superb individuals on Earth, Mr. Michael J. Fox.”
Fox and Coldplay beforehand joined forces onstage at Metlife Stadium in 2016, with the 2 performing Chuck Berry’s “Johnny B. Goode,” which McFly performs throughout the dance within the 1985 time-travel film.
At Glastonbury, throughout “Repair You,” Martin sang “Go, Johnny, go, go, go” a number of occasions in reference to “Johnny B. Goode.”
Coldplay drew a star-studded viewers to their set, with Martin’s fiancee Dakota Johnson and Mission: Inconceivable stars Tom Cruise and Simon Pegg in addition to Gillian Anderson all noticed within the crowd.
