Coldplay ditches stadium pomp - for one night - at prison-reform benefit concert
(WorldNews Music)

`One solitary balloon.` That was the extent of Coldplay´s live production, as frontman Chris Martin described it, when the British band performed Monday night at the Hollywood Palladium behind its ambitious new album, `Everyday Life.` In truth, the concert contained a bit more spectacle than Martin let on, including a string section, hundreds of twinkly lights and a guest appearance by Nigeria´s Femi Kuti. But you took the singer´s point: Compared with the open-air extravaganza Coldplay presented at the Rose Bowl on its last tour - `We had fireworks and we had confetti and we had lasers and we had 80,000 shining wristbands,` Martin recalled - the lonely inflatable floating through the...