“If you’ve just embezzled the company funds, you’re fine,” Chris Martin told the last of ten Wembley Stadium crowds, with a certain no-fudges-left-to-give humour, as their notorious kisscam scoured the crowd for its final victims – for now. “Get on the camera,” he cajoled, “Everything that happens here stays here. Guaranteed.”
It seemed bizarre to watch a show by Martin’s none-more-cuddly pop rock figureheads with one eye out for scandal. But, with its extramarital exposes and last week’s badly fumbled attempts to Coldplay away the booing of Israeli fans, the Twitterstorm impact of the Music of the Spheres tour has often overshadowed its many records and achievements: ten million trees planted; $1 billion grossed; the most attended, planet-friendly and crowd-brightening tour in history.
