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The Glastonbury Sunday Legend is one of the most prestigious slots in the festival calendar. Take one veteran performer, stick them on the Pyramid Stage late on Sunday afternoon and watch them. The 10 best Glastonbury headline sets: The Smiths (1984) When The Smiths headlined Glastonbury, the festival was a very different beast to what it is some 36 years on. However, it was an iconic turning point in the Somerset event’s history which helped it become what it is today. Muse: Having cut their teeth at Glasto in their early years, the Devonshire trio really hit the big time and became supermassive with their legendary headline slot at 2004. A modern-day Glastonbury headliner is typically a world-conquering chart-topping household name with a back catalogue that’s perfect for a mass sing-along. However, since its inception in 1970.

And a quarter of all headline slots were taken up by the same 20 acts. The study comes as 175,000 people head to the Glastonbury Festival. Musician and writer Emma-Lee Moss said the music industry.

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Beyonce's 2011 headline slot at Glastonbury is being replayed as part of the 2020 virtual festival.

Beyoncé at Glastonbury in 2011 was a masterpiece. Anyone who was there will agree and to this day it remains one of the great Glastonbury headline performances of all time.

So as Beyonce's 2011 Glastonbury headline set is replayed as part of the festival's virtual coverage for 2020 we take a look back at why Bey's booking was so controversial at the time.

Cast your minds back to 2011 when Beyoncé was booked to headline Glastonbury for the first time. The two previous years of Glastonbury had seen headline slots from Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, Blur, Gorillaz, Muse and Stevie Wonder, so Beyoncé was to become the first solo female artist booked to headline the festival since Sinead O'Connor in 1990 (Kylie Minogue replaced original headliners Basement Jaxx in 2005).

With her performance, Beyoncé also became the first solo black female artist ever to perform a headline set on the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury.

Bey's husband Jay-Z had controversially headlined Glastonbury two years before in 2009 with many people claiming that it wasn't a rapper's place to play a headline slot at one of the world's most iconic festival's.

Beyoncé's booking at Glastonbury was also met with some discourse from festival-goers, with many disappointed to see the R&B star given Glastonbury's much-coveted closing spot on the festival's Sunday night.

9 years ago today, Beyoncé headlined Glastonbury. She was pregnant at the time with her first child, Blue Ivy! pic.twitter.com/GlQ4fnJobW

— BEYVIBES (@bbeyvibes) June 26, 2020

But as she always does, Beyoncé put on a show to remember and her Glastonbury 2011 performance will go down in the history books as one of the greatest ever. At the time, she even broke the record for most television views for a single performance according to the BBC.

Beyonce at Glastonbury is 90 minutes of pure Bey greatness, with classic hits such as 'Crazy In Love' making the cut, whilst Bey even found time to perform some of her hits with Destiny's Child, including 'Bootylicious' and 'Say My Name'.

So as we watch back Beyoncé's Glastonbury 2011 headline set as part of the virtual 2020 festival, remember just how much of a pioneer Queen B truly is.

TAYLOR SWIFT AT GLASTONBURY 2020

It’s a Swiftmas miracle! Taylor Swift announces headline slot at Glastonbury 2020.

via Twitter

Pop icon Taylor Swift certainly knows a thing or two about milestones, she taught us the most important lessons about growing up in “Fifteen”, celebrated the vibrancy of youth in “22” and pulled a Prince by immortalising the 20th century with her album 1989, but I think ushering in her 30th birthday by announcing a headline slot at Glastonbury has to be the winner, right?

Swift took to Twitter to announce the news last night, posing with a copy of the Glastonbury Free Press that reads “From Christmas Tree Farm to Worthy Farm”. The high-profile gig sees her join the likes of Paul McCartney for the iconic festivals 50th anniversary, and also makes her the sixth solo female headliner in the festival’s 50-year history.

'She’s one of the biggest stars in the world and her songs are absolutely amazing. We’re so delighted.”

Taylor Swift. Sunday night headliner. Glastonbury 2020. pic.twitter.com/SHp9A4GG4w

— Glastonbury Festival (@GlastoFest) December 15, 2019

Of course any true Swiftie could have seen this coming from a mile off, following the absence of UK dates from her worldwide ‘Lover Fest’ after she announced the US and European legs of the tour earlier this year. For those of us who missed out on Glastonbury tickets , we have two options: jumping the fence (high risk but VERY high reward) or catching Swift on her only other UK solo date at Hyde Park’s BST Lover Fest takeover in July (which could only be high reward). We’ll let you decide the path you take.

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