The rain is lashing as I stand ankle-deep in mud, along with more than 100,000 other bedraggled souls, at Glastonbury Festival in the UK. As Coldplay rip into their tender tear-jerker "Fix You", an extraordinary thing happens: people all around me start weeping. Everywhere I look people are singing along with tears streaming down their faces. Couples clutch each other in a "they're playing our song" kind of way. One young woman lies on her back in the cold, grey mud and bellows out the lyrics to the stars, or perhaps to God.
"Yeah, it's crazy, man!" Chris Martin, Coldplay's lead singer, tells me over the phone from London. "Sometimes there might be thousands of people having a deeply emotional reaction to my songs, but meanwhile I'm just thinking about how not to fall over on stage or how much sweat is pouring off me. I'm usually thinking very silly things as I sing."
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