Elton John was on hand for the 2021 iHeartRadio Music Awards as this year’s recipient of the Icon Awards. Prior to accepting his award, Lil Nas X and Coldplay frontman Chris Martin gave speeches to praise the honouree, with Martin’s taking a comedic approach.
In his setup, Martin claimed he’d gotten into a “really bad fistfight” with the guy who ran the teleprompter, and, since he claimed to know absolutely nothing about the “Rocket Man” rocker, he was simply going to recite whatever iHeartRadio had put on the screen for him to read.
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