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Chris Martin was enthusiastic about “Back to the Future”
Coldpaly singer Chris Martin at a concert in 2017 in the USA. Photo: Scott Roth / Invision / AP / dpa
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How do you get started a band? For Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, a Hollywood film was decisive.
Coldplay singer Chris Martin was inspired to found a band in his own words by the science fiction trilogy “Back to the Future”.
“I grew up in the country in England before the Internet existed,” said the 44-year-old on the talk show of his fellow musician Kelly Clarkson. He therefore had his first points of contact with music through the television.
Michael J. Fox came on stage
A scene in “Back to the Future” from 1985, in which Michael J. Fox alias Marty McFly plays the Chuck Berry hit “Johnny B. Goode” on his guitar at a prom, left a lasting impression on him. so Martin. “That’s why I wanted to play in a band myself, because of this scene.”
Fox came on stage during a Coldplay concert in New Jersey in 2016 and played two songs from “Back to the Future” with Martin’s band. Martin remembered the moment as great. Of all celebrity visits on stage, Fox is probably his number one, according to the singer.