Chris Martin: "Coldplay are saying the opposite of walls and Brexit"
Sophie Heawood, The Guardian, 23 June 2016
IT IS RATHER GRATIFYING, when meeting a band who have sold 80m albums and are about to headline the world's biggest music festival for the fourth time, in front of a global audience of millions, to find out that things were not always like this. Chris Martin, sitting backstage at a Zurich stadium on Coldplay's world tour in mid-June, tells me that he never got to go to Glastonbury before performing there, because of school terms and university exams.
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