Michael J. Fox Talks ‘Mind Blowing’ Coldplay Glastonbury Performance

Michael J. Fox had a “f*cking thoughts blowing” time performing with Coldplay on the 2024 Glastonbury Competition on Saturday.

The actor and Parkinson’s activist performed guitar on the band’s hit “Repair You” through the group’s headlining set on the U.Ok. music competition final evening.

On Instagram on Sunday, Fox thanked Coldplay’s group and bandmembers Chris Martin, Will Champion, Johnny Buckland and Man Berryman, in addition to supervisor Phil Harvey.

“There’s a time for each band and a band for each time,” Fox wrote alongside a carousel of photographs, together with one with members of his group and him sitting in a wheelchair in entrance of an “optimism is a political act” signal. “That is @coldplay’s time.”

Fox additionally shared a photograph of an indication studying “Coldplay particular visitor” and a brief video of the band backstage.

Close to the top of the “Repair You” efficiency, Martin praised Fox, saying, “The primary purpose we’re in a band is due to watching Again to the Future,” wherein Fox’s Marty McFly performs guitar, memorably through the film’s 1955 faculty dance scene. “So thanks to our hero without end and probably the most wonderful individuals on Earth, Mr. Michael J. Fox.”

Fox and Coldplay beforehand joined forces onstage at Metlife Stadium in 2016, with the 2 performing Chuck Berry’s “Johnny B. Goode,” which McFly performs through the dance within the 1985 time-travel film.

At Glastonbury, throughout “Repair You,” Martin sang “Go, Johnny, go, go, go” a number of instances in reference to “Johnny B. Goode.”

Coldplay drew a star-studded viewers to their set, with Martin’s fiancée Dakota Johnson, Mission: Unimaginable stars Tom Cruise and Simon Pegg, and Gillian Anderson all noticed within the crowd.