Musical entertainment at a local pub can be a hit or miss affair but for customers at one venue were in for a treat. For Coldplay frontman Chris Martin popped in for a pint as he travelled home from the Glastonbury Festival.
And rather than just putting his feet up he gave an impromptu performance on the piano in the bar, reports Somerset Live. The star was with his PA and girlfriend Dakota Johnson, after enjoying the musical event at Worthy Farm.
The group had popped into The Stag at Hinton Charterhouse on Sunday to the surprise of fellow customers and landlord Chris Parkin. Mr Parkin was sitting at the bar with one of the local farmers when the musician walked in.
He said: “We had just finished lunch service and I was at the bar when this man walked in and I said to the lad sat next to me, ‘crikey that fella looks like Chris Martin’. The lady, who was his PA who was with him, turned and said ‘It is.”
Mr Parkin, who has run the pub for 22 years, told how he got the group some pints of Guinness and they went and sat outside. “I asked the customers just to leave them in peace outside to enjoy their drinks and everyone respected that,” he said.
When the star came back into the pub, Mr Parkins's son Alfie - a keen pianist - asked if he could shake Mr Martin’s hand. “He shook Alfie’s hand and we were all sat at a table discussing the plans for an upcoming wedding we are catering for,” said Mr Parkin.
“Mr Martin then asked us what the meeting was about and we told him, only for the bride and groom, Hannah Organ and Jeremy Larkham to tell him their wedding song was going to be Coldplay’s Sky Full of Stars. To our surprise, he then turned around and asked us if we wanted him to play it on the pub’s piano, to which we said yes.”
The musician then played the tune, from the album Ghost Stories, stopping before he reached the very high notes, telling them he had been ‘partying all weekend’ and was a ‘little hoarse.’ He also gave the soon-to-be-married pair some advice telling Jeremy to ‘listen to everything’ that Hannah says.
Mr Martin then left the pub for his onward journey. “It was a bit surreal to have such a huge star like Chris Martin in the pub,” said Mr Parkin. “But he was a really pleasant chap, really nice.”
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