Legendary British rock band Coldplay are reportedly planning to honor their late friend and legendary Aussie cricketer Shane Warne at their upcoming sold-out Australian shows.
Coldplay paying tribute to Shane Warne
The iconic band will perform the first show of their Music of the Spheres tour in Melbourne on Wednesday night and are rumored to have a special tribute planned for Warne.
Singer Chris Martin has been tipped to be performing his heartfelt ballad Song For Shane, which was written as a tribute to Warne after he died in March 2022, reports the Herald Sun.
Martin had first performed the tribute song for Warne in Perth in November last year when the band played a special one-off show in Western Australia.
‘Friends come, friends go, There are some people you’re lucky to know, If I could I’d do it all again, Thanks for everything, Shane,’ Martin serenaded the crowd during the heartfelt performance.
Warne’s daughter Summer, 23, attended the concert and later took to Instagram to thank the band for honoring her father,
‘The most amazing song dedicated to Dad. Thank you Chris, so beautiful,’ she wrote.
The ballad’s lyrics reveal how Martin first met Warne in an elevator and pays cheeky tribute to his love for smoking and fast food.
It also follows Chris Martin performing a haunting rendition of Coldplay’s Yellow at Shane’s memorial service in March 2022. The legendary Shane Warne passed away from natural causes while holidaying with friends on the Thailand island of Koh Samui on March 4, 2022.
The late leg spinner had previously disclosed that Chris turned to him when he had a ‘block in music writing’. The pair had been close friends since meeting in a hotel elevator in 2001, Martin even appeared in the movie Shane, the documentary released in January 2022 about the sporting legend’s life.
