Glastonbury Festival
The Glastonbury Festival is a very big music festival. It is held at Worthy Farm near Glastonbury, Somerset, England, most years, during the last weekend in June. About 100,000 people come to the festival every time. The festival is hosted and organized by local farmer Michael Eavis. It is a widely known festival with many big and popular bands playing there every year.
Controversy
In Glastonbury 2009, there was a great deal of controversy when Jay-Z was asked to headline the festival. The most infamous response to this was when Noel Gallagher from Oasis said that Glastonbury should only be for rock musicians.
Glastonbury Festival Media
Michael Eavis, co-creator of the festival, at Glastonbury Festival 2010
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The Pyramid Stage in 1985. Due to heavy rainfall, a large area of mud covered this area.
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NME stage at the 1993 festival
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Techno music is played on a sound system at dawn, Glastonbury 2000.
Pennard Hill, 2004
The view from the stone circle on Thursday afternoon, 2004
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A stream runs through a tent after two inches of rain fell in an hour on Friday morning of the 2005 festival.
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Mud at the "Other Stage" 2007
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Jazz World field on the opening afternoon of the 2007 festival
