Customers had a special treat when Coldplay frontman Chris Martin played piano in a bar after stopping in for a pint on his way home from the Glastonbury Festival.
Mr Martin, accompanied by his PA and girlfriend Dakota Johnson, dropped into The Stag at Hinton Charterhouse on Sunday (June 26) after a weekend of partying at Worthy Farm, reports Somerset Live.
Landlord Chris Parkin was sat at the bar with a local farmer when Mr Martin walked in. “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.”
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The shocked landlord, who has run the pub for 22 years, 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,” said Mr Parkin.
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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