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Michael J. Fox makes surprise guitar performance with Coldplay at the Glastonbury Festival
It was a blast from the previous as “Again to the Future” star Michael J. Fox joined Coldplay onstage for a shock efficiency on the Glastonbury Pageant in Somerset, England.
The retired actor, 63, has been a faithful Parkinson’s illness activist since he was recognized with the long-term neurodegenerative illness at age 29. Fox, who now makes use of a wheelchair, performed a guitar in his lap throughout “Humankind” and “Repair You.”
Fox had beforehand carried out “Johnny B. Goode” with Coldplay after the band introduced him out for one more shock look in New York in 2016.
The primary act to headline the Glastonbury music pageant for a fifth time, Coldplay revealed to the viewers Saturday that Fox had impressed the British rock band’s formation within the first place along with his efficiency as teenager Marty McFly within the iconic 1985 movie.
“The primary motive that we’re in a band is reason behind watching ‘Again to the Future,’” frontman Chris Martin stated throughout the present. “So thanks to our hero perpetually, and one of the superb folks on Earth, Mr. Michael J. Fox.”
Martin led the gang as they sang alongside to the band’s 2005 hit “Repair You,” throughout which he snuck in a reference to the film.
“Go, Johnny, go, go, go,” he sang throughout the interlude, a callback to Fox’s McFly performing Chuck Berry’s “Johnny B. Goode” at his mother and father’ highschool dance.
When introducing him to the viewers Saturday, Martin described Fox in a singsong voice as “one who simply completely rocks, along with his Chuck Berry riff and the way in which he punched Biff,” the trilogy’s principal antagonist.
Earlier than retiring from performing in 2020, Fox’s decadeslong profession earned him 5 Emmy Awards, 4 Golden Globe Awards, two Display Actors Guild Awards and a Grammy Award.
He based the Michael J. Fox Basis in 2000 with the goal of discovering remedies and an eventual remedy for Parkinson’s illness.
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