Coldplay frontman charged over attack on photographer's car

Coldplay singer Chris Martin has been charged in Australia with malicious damage after allegedly losing his temper and smashing the windscreen of a photographer’s car, police confirmed today.

Just hours before the band’s headline performance at Sydney’s Splendour In The Grass festival, Martin was interviewed by police after being reported by photographer Jon Lister, who had snapped him surfing at Seven Mile Beach in Byron Bay.