By the time it ends next September at Wembley Stadium, 15 months after it began in Brixton, Coldplay’s Viva La Vida tour will have played 108 dates and taken them to 17 countries. They will have sold well over one million tickets and confirmed themselves as earth’s most popular group until U2 are back.
Last night they returned to the city where they formed, staked their claim for greatness and emerged triumphant. Surely nobody can doubt them now. In truth, we shouldn’t be surprised. Singer, guitarist and pianist Chris Martin’s outer geek has always obscured his inner take-no-prisoners ambition.
That geek momentarily re-surfaced when he anointed London as “the best crowd in the world” (I bet he says that to all the cities) and instigated a left-side, right-side cheering competition Westlife might spurn on naffness grounds. He just can’t help himself —and Coldplay still dress like farmers.No matter. As Martin’s actress wife Gwyneth Paltrow bobbed merrily among the masses, albeit with her own security, Coldplay were everything you could hope for from a world-bestriding act (apart from a savagely truncated Talk) and much more.
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