Coldplay headlined the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury on Saturday night superstar sat playing guitar along to his frontman friend’s infective optimism before a global audience – for the first time, the headliner was streamed around the world. That watching world chorused “I’m not crying, you’re crying”. It only makes the opprobrium, derision and animosity directed towards Coldplay all the more bizarre.
Coldplay has always been derided. And yet, they are one of our few genuinely global superstar bands. What is our problem with mainstream success?There is a long list of British world-beaters that we simply love to troll: Chris Martin, Ed Sheeran and Adele are inheritors of a tradition that stretches back to Queen, Genesis and Rod Stewart.
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