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).
🎥 Coldplay bring guests Little Simz and Elyanna out to perform ‘We Pray’ – featuring a cameo from Burna Boy 💥🔥🙌
— Far Out Magazine #Glastonbury2024 (@FarOutMag) June 29, 2024
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’.
Arabesque feat Femi Kuti! 🎷🌙☀️ #ColdplayGlastonbury #Glastonbury pic.twitter.com/tV9TnAgwNe
— Coldplay Access (@coldplayaccess) June 29, 2024
Elyanna joined Coldplay on stage at Glastonbury!🔥 pic.twitter.com/G0gFAykJeI
— Elyannaians (@Elyannaians) June 29, 2024
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, Johnny, go!” as Fox played the guitar – a reference to Back To The Future.
Violet Hill with @lauramvula and a choir 🤯
🔺 #ColdplayGlastonbury pic.twitter.com/66YCoytc6n
— ColdplayXtra (@coldplayxtra) June 29, 2024
Michael J. Fox plays guitar with Coldplay during “Fix You” at #Glastonbury2024. pic.twitter.com/VgLYgXaq6B
— Variety (@Variety) June 29, 2024
See Coldplay’s full Glastonbury 2024 setlist here – which also included ‘My Universe’ with projections of collaborators BTS on the Pyramid Stage.
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