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Adele

Adele too afraid to sing at Glastonbury

Music Gossip

18 May 2012

Adele is too afraid to headline Glastonbury festival. The 'Someone Like You' singer has been hotly tipped to appear at the event in 2013, but organiser Michael Eavis says he can't convince her because she gets daunted by the number of people who…

Michael Eavis

Michael Eavis predicts end to Glastonbury

Music Gossip

11 Jul 2011

Glastonbury festival organiser Michael Eavis thinks the event could end in "three or four years". The 75-year-old has been running the festival on his Worthy Farm site in Somerset, Southern England since 1981, but feels financial constraints and the…

U2

Glastonbury boss always wanted U2

Music Gossip

24 Jun 2011

Glastonbury organisers have been trying to book U2 for 32 years. The Irish rockers headline the world-famous festival tonight (24.06.11) - a year after they pulled out when frontman Bono suffered a back injury - and the event's founder Michael Eavis…

Jay-Z to play Scotland

17 Apr 2008

Hip hop superstar Jay-Z is to play dates at Glasgow SECC on 20 July and Aberdeen Exhibition Centre on 21 July as part of a wider UK tour. The rapper, who reportedly married his girlfriend Beyonce last week, will first headline Glastonbury on 28 June…

Eavis receives CBE from Queen, fields questions about mud

15 Nov 2007

Glastonbury founder Michael Eavis was questioned by the Queen about his muddy fields when he accepted his CBE at Buckingham Palace. The 72-year-old later recounted the experience: ‘I said it’s a very lovely farm and was looking splendid now.’ She…

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