Coldplay opens 10-night Wembley run with fan moments and proposal

Coldplay opened the first of an unprecedented 10-night residency at Wembley Stadium on Friday, August 22, delivering a spectacle of lights, fireworks and audience interaction that included a midshow marriage proposal and several on-stage fan moments. Frontman Chris Martin repeatedly thanked the roughly 90,000-strong crowd and told fans the London run would be the band's last performances in the city for several years.

The show mixed the theatrical production Coldplay have become known for with intimate moments tailored to the crowd. Martin invited a man in an elephant onesie onto the stage for Paradise and, after reading poster requests, chose an 18-year-old fan with autism to sit beside him at the piano and hear fellow early-career track Trouble. The singer also acknowledged flags from around the stadium, including those from Palestine, Argentina and Ireland, and brought out Palestinian-Chilean pop star Elyanna, one of the evening's opening acts, to perform We Pray.

Midway through the set Martin revived the Jumbotron segment that recently made headlines in Boston, where a kiss-cam clip went viral and led to resignations at a tech firm after two colleagues were filmed in an...