But the first festival was a more modest affair and was partly driven by Eavis's need to keep his family's farm afloat. "It's a means of staying in the business," he told BBC reporter John Norman ...

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An archivist said she "loved the anarchy" of Glastonbury Festival when it first started and people could just "wander in".

Therefore, David Bowie played his first ever Glastonbury set around 5am on the morning of Wednesday 23rd June, accompanied by ...

Now a global juggernaut, the festival has changed unrecognizably since the summer solstice of 1971 when the first Glastonbury Fair, as it was then known (and prior to that, the “Pilton Pop, Folk ...

I went to Glastonbury in 1982, 1983, 1986 and 1993. The most memorable thing for me was having my car stolen from the massive car park in 1982.

It was in the summer of 1970, when the single Lola was released, that inspiration came to him. He was attending, with his future wife Jean, the Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music, and he ...

By Martha Alexander, CNN (CNN) — This year’s Glastonbury Festival is underway, with headliners Dua Lipa, Coldplay and SZA topping a bill of some 2,000 acts across 100 stages, and more than ...