Coldplay featured a number of cameos throughout its Saturday night efficiency on the Glastonbury Competition in England, however there was one specifically that obtained the gang on its toes. “Here is one other legendary Michael/One who simply completely rocks,” crooned lead singer Chris Martin in introducing the band’s most sudden particular visitor, who got here out onto the stage to cheers and applause. “Together with his Chuck Berry riff/And the way in which he punched Biff/Girls and gents, please welcome Michael J. Fox.” The 63-year-old actor then emerged on the stage, guitar in hand, and performed two songs with the band in entrance of the gang of 100,000: “Humankind” and “Repair You.”
Martin defined why Fox was there, per Time: “The primary cause why we’re in a band is due to watching Again to the Future.” Martin added, “Thanks to our hero endlessly and some of the superb folks on Earth, Mr. Michael J. Fox.” Followers in Somerset and on-line went wild for Fox’s shock displaying. “Coldplay ft. Michael J Fox is the collaboration I did not know I wanted,” one fan famous on X. Others gave Fox a shoutout for his work bringing consciousness to Parkinson’s illness, which he was identified with in 1991 on the age of 29. “Since my Dad was identified with Parkinson’s virtually a decade in the past, I have never had the braveness to take heed to ‘Repair You,’ certainly one of my all-time favorites,” one other commenter famous. “However then this occurred at #Glastonbury. … Music is so unbelievable.”
Fox, for his half, gushed about being onstage with the band. “In case you had been questioning … it was f—ing thoughts blowing,” he wrote on Instagram of his Saturday look. “There’s a time for each band and a band for each time. That is @coldplay’s time.” It isn’t the primary time Fox has carried out with Coldplay: In 2016, the band introduced him out throughout their set at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium. (Extra Michael J. Fox tales.)