Coldplay honors Paris with moving 'Imagine' cover

Friday was supposed to be a big evening for Coldplay; the band was scheduled to preview their new album A Head Full of Dreams live at Los Angeles' Belasco Theater in a live-streamed event for TIDAL.

But as the horrific attacks in Paris unfolded that evening — including a massacre in a concert hall —Coldplay cancelled the livestream and performed a truncated set for the fans in attendance.

In a moving tribute to the attacks' victims, the band opened the evening's show with a new cover of John Lennon's Imagine, which some fans captured on video:

Coldplay's cover wasn't the first time Lennon's song has been used to honor Paris. In an equally emotional tribute, a German pianist set up in front of the city's Bataclan theater to play Imagine on a piano he reportedly biked over from Germany: