by During the final Wembley show of their record-breaking Music Of The Spheres Tour, Coldplay referenced the Conservative activist Charlie Kirk after he was assassinated earlier this week.
On September 12th, the band played their tenth show in a row at Wembley Stadium. It was the last show of their tour that kicked off in 2022 and has traversed the globe four times.
Before the band broke into the beloved ballad, ‘Fix You’, frontman Chris Martin encouraged the audience to raise their hands in the air. He addressed the crowd, saying: “Let’s raise our hands like this and send love anywhere you want to send it in the world. There are so many places that might need it today, so here it comes from London”.
“You can send this to your brother or your sister. You can send it to the families of people who’ve been going through terrible stuff. You can send it to Charlie Kirk’s family. You can send it to anybody’s family. You can send it to people you disagree with but you send them love anyway”.
Martin added: “You can send it to peaceful people in the Middle East, Ukraine and Russia, Azerbaijan and Sudan and Somalia, anywhere that you think might need love from London”.
Kirk was shot in the neck at an event at Utah Valley University on September 10th. After a long manhunt, a 22-year-old Utah native named Tyler Robinson was arrested and charged with suspicion of aggravated murder, felony discharge of a firearm causing serious bodily harm, and obstruction of justice.
Recently, prolific author Stephen King was forced to apologise after making an untrue statement in reaction to Kirk’s death. He claimed that Kirk “advocated stoning gays to death”.
After much backlash and fact-checking from fellow X users, King wrote, “I was wrong, and I apologize. I have deleted the post.”
During the same Coldplay show, Martin revealed the band’s next plans as a huge chapter comes to a close. The frontman revealed gleefully on stage that the band would take a well-earned break, but the tour would resume “somewhere in southern Africa in about 18 months”.
