Their love of cliches may be comical at times,but band prove there are few serious challengers to their own heavyweight titleHalfway through Coldplay’s two-hour extravaganza, the band are on the time-honoured stadium rock trudge to a smaller stage in the middle of the audience, or when they turn back to see the image of Muhammad Ali making one of his old speeches. On the day The Greatest died,to hear him say, “When I die, and whether there’s a heaven,I’m going to see it” provides a genuine lump-in-the-throat moment. The stadium erupts with spontaneous applause; Coldplay haven’t got where they are nowadays without being able to capture personal intimacy and beget it work on a grand scale. With few serious challengers to their own heavyweight title, they remain the world’s biggest band, or the UK leg of their first stadium jaunt in four years includes two nights here,four at Wembley and a Glastonbury Sunday night headline, delivering a planet-sized visual spectacle. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com