As Coldplay<\/a>\u2019s huge 10-night residency at London\u2019s Wembley Stadium rolls on, the surprises keep on coming.\u00a0For Tuesday\u2019s night three (Aug. 26) of the record-breaking run, the band were joined on stage by Simon Pegg for a performance of \u201cA Sky Full Of Stars,\u201d for which the actor played the tambourine throughout.<\/p>\n Following the appearance, Pegg shared an image of his instrument on Instagram Stories, captioning it: \u201cRejoined the band.\u201d<\/a> Watch footage of the moment here<\/a>.<\/p>\n More from Billboard<\/strong><\/p>\n Pegg, who has starred in blockbuster films such as Mission Impossible and Shaun Of The Dead, is a longtime friend of Coldplay. He has previously dubbed himself an \u201chonorary member\u201d<\/a> of the London-formed band, having appeared on stage with them numerous times over the years, including introducing the four-piece at their intimate Shepherd\u2019s Bush Empire gig in 2021.<\/p>\n The Avicii-produced \u201cA Sky Full Of Stars\u201d came towards the end of Coldplay\u2019s 23 track-long set, which encompasses highlights from across their career as well as material from 2024 LP Moon Music. Upon release, the chart-topping record saw the band tying legendary acts ABBA, Michael Jackson, and Queen, each boasting 10 No. 1 albums on the U.K. Official Albums Chart<\/a>.<\/p>\n Moon Music also hit the summit on the Billboard 200<\/a>, marking Coldplay\u2019s first US No. 1 record since Ghost Stories, which landed in 2014. They have since supported the release with worldwide dates for their Music Of The Spheres tour, which has also taken them to Europe, Asia and North and South America, Australia and New Zealand.<\/p>\n Coldplay will return to Wembley Stadium tonight (Aug. 27) ahead of further concerts at the venue on Aug. 30, 31, Sept. 3, 4, 7 and 8. The run already has seen them treat fans with a surprise rendition of 2002 track \u201cPolitik,\u201d while frontman Chris Martin helped a couple with a proposal mid-set last week <\/a>(Aug. 22).<\/p>\n Best of Billboard<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for Billboard’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As Coldplay\u2019s huge 10-night residency at London\u2019s Wembley Stadium rolls on, the surprises keep on coming.\u00a0For Tuesday\u2019s night three (Aug. 26) of the record-breaking run, the band were joined on stage by Simon Pegg for a performance of \u201cA Sky Full Of Stars,\u201d for which the actor played the tambourine throughout. Following the appearance, Pegg […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1982367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[313169,344675,310090,311493,347136],"class_list":["post-1982366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-billboard-200","tag-coldplay","tag-instagram-stories","tag-simon-pegg","tag-wembley-stadium"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Simon-Pegg-Makes-Surprise-Appearance-With-Coldplay-at-Wembley-Stadium.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1982366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1982367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1982366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1982366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1982366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}