Posted on: September 22, 2024, 09:35h.
Last updated on: September 22, 2024, 09:50h.
There’s a reason the guy who karaoked along to a Coldplay song last Saturday at famed Las Vegas dive bar Dino’s Lounge sounded so good.
It’s because it was Chris Martin. Coldplay’s singer, fresh from a solo set at the iHeartRadio Music Festival at T-Mobile Arena, showed up dressed as a dork — in a wig, thick black glasses and suit == and proceeded to give the packed but still-tiny crowd a night it wouldn’t soon forget. (OK, so the dorky suit wasn’t what threw anyone off about the costume.)
Martin, introduced only as “Chris,” sang “All My Love,” a beautiful ballad off Coldplay’s new “Moon Music” album, which drops Oct. 4. A film crew hired by Live Nation, producer of the iHeart Music Festival, captured the audience as it slowly realized what was happening.
Supposedly, only the owner, Martin, his bodyguard and the film crew knew — not even the bar’s staff.
The red balloon Martin held was purchased from a guy selling them in the parking lot. In the middle of the performance, a woman whom Martin identifies as “Trish” — perhaps someone he met in character earlier in the evening? — approaches Martin to hug him, and he gives her the balloon.
“Thank you so much, everybody,” Martin thanked the cheering crowd. “Thanks for letting me do that. Beatles forever.”
A YouTube user named Laurie Rogers posted her own video of the magical event, which has 16,000 views as of Sunday night. Check it out below…
“Gestures like this reinforce and magnify why Chris Martin has always struck me as one of the most humble, down to earth lead singers among all established groups,” commented YouTube user @HummingbirdInAHurricane.
Dino’s was built as Ringside, a liquor store, by mobster Eddie Trascher, in the 1950s. It was purchased in 1962 by Rinaldo “Dino” Bartolomucci, who transformed it into Dino’s Lounge. Dino passed the club onto his son, Chuck, who passed it on to his daughter, Kristin Bartolo.
Now located south of the Stratosphere and across Las Vegas Boulevard from the Peppermint Hippo gentlemen’s club, Dino’s is one of the oldest bars in the city.
