Chris Martin asked the Glastonbury crowd to send love to Israel and Palestine during Coldplay ’s headline set. The British band, who broke a record with their fifth headline performance at the Worthy Farm festival, were top billing on Saturday (30 June), tearing through tracks including “Yellow”, “The Scientist” and “Vida La Vida”. During their set, which T he Independent called a “spectacle of a lifetime” , they welcomed several surprise guests including Michael J Fox, Little Simz and Palestinian-Chilean singer Elyanna .
At one stage, frontman Martin stopped the music and had the lights turned up while he asked the crowd to raise their hands and send love to anywhere they wanted in the world. After asking the 100,000-strong crowd to put their phones away for “A Sky Full of Stars”, Martin said: “Just raise your hands like this and turn towards the main stage like this. Now, we’re gonna send a big Glastonbury love thing.
OK, for five seconds, we’re gonna send it out.” Martin, advocating for world peace, then said: “You can send it to anyone: you can send it to your grandmother, you can send it to Israel, you can send it to Palestine, you can send it to Myanmar. You can send it to Ukraine, you can send it to beautiful Russia.
You can send it anywhere – you can send it all over the world from Glastonbury.” He later thanked the crowd “for giving us and me restored faith that most humans can gather together very peacefully with all different f.